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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
June 1, 1887. 
ascertained that the Pharmacy Board did not oppose the Bill 
and he would take no further action in the matter. 
The motion for second reading was then put and carried, 
and the Bill was ordered to be committed on May 10. On 
that date the treasurer made his financial statement, which 
eclipsed all lesser lights. 
The Bill passed through committee, and was read a third 
time and passed on May 10. It was then transmitted to the 
House of Bepresentatives, and was read a first time on May 11. 
THE PHAKMACY BOAED’S PROPOSED BILL. 
An Act to amend “The Pharmacy Act. 1880.” 
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand 
in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 
as follows : — 
1. The Short Title of this Act is “The Pharmacy Act, 1880, 
Amendment Act, 188 
2. In this Act the term “ the said Act ” means “ The Phar- 
macy Act, 1880.” 
3. Section eleven of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in 
lieu thereof the following shall be read as part of the said Act: 
The Board may from time to time make, alter, and rescind 
by-laws for the purposes of carrying this Act into effect : Pro- 
vided that such by-laws shall be confirmed and approved bythe 
majority of the pharmaceutical chemists of New Zealand, who 
shall have expressed their approval or disapproval in manner 
prescribed by the regulations. Such by-laws shall not have ef- 
iect if they be repugnant to any law in force in New Zealand, 
or to the provisions of this Act, nor until they shall have been 
published in the Government Gazette. 
Board to sure regulations. 
The Board shall make regulations providing for the manner in 
which the pharmaceutical chemists may express their approval 
or disapproval of such by-laws. 
Unregistered chemists not to keep open shop. 
4. Any person not being a registered pharmaceutical chem- 
ist of New Zealand, who carries on, or attempts to carry on, 
the business of a chemist and druggist, or a homoeopathic 
chemist, by keeping an open shop for the compounding and 
dispensing of the prescriptions of legally qualified medical 
practitioners, or who, being a registered pharmaceutical 
chemist, shall, after the thirty-first day of December, one 
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, keep an open shop 
for the compounding and dispensing of the prescriptions oi. 
legally qualified medical practitioners, if such shop shall not 
be under the management of a registered pharmaceutical 
chemist, shall be liable tc a penalty not exceeding five 
pounds for each offence. 
Proposed New Tariff. — On May 10 Sir Julius Vogel made 
his financial statement when he proposed certain alterations 
in the tariff, some of which will afiect the dry trade. They 
are indicated below : — 
ARTICLE. 
PRESENT 
DUTY. 
PROPOSED 
DUTY. 
Acetic Acid 
Id. per lb. 
Starch 
Paints and Colours, ground 
3;- per cwt. 
Id. per lb. 
in oil . . 
Paints and Colours, mixed 
free 
2/- per cwt. 
ready for use 
2 - per cwt. 
4/- per cwt. 
Sauces 
2,'- per doz. pints 
2't) per doz. pints 
Honey 
Id. per lb. 
Matches 
25% 
1/- per gross of bxs. 
cnnt'ning each box 
100 m’hes or under 
and pro rata. 
Spirits, under proof 
14, 6 per proof gal. 
14/6 per licjuid gal. 
Sheep Dip 
Leather, not otherwise enu- 
10 % ad val. 
merated 
Id. per lb. 
10 % ad val. 
Aerated and Mineral Waters 
, , 
15 % ad val. 
Twine of all kinds 
Show Cards and other pic- 
torial lithographs and 
5> per ewt, or 15 % 
ad val. 
15% ad val. 
prints 
Articles not otherwise enu- 
merated, which are now 
chargeable with dnty at 
20% ad val. 
15 % ad val... 
Patent and Proprietary Medi- 
20% ad val. 
eines and Preparations . . 
35 % ad val. 
The Treasurer also proposed that in the event of any duties- 
hereby imposed not being confirmed or deductions being made 
in the rates specified, the amounts levied, collected, and paid 
in excess of the duties as may be imposed by a Customs Act 
based on these resolutions shall be refunded to the persons 
who paid the same. 
The articles not otherwise enumerated now to be charged 
at 20% instead of 15% include baking powder, drugs and 
druggists’ sundries, and apothecaries’ wares, flavouring 
essences, writing inks, isinglass, preserved milk, liquorice, 
syrups, caraway seeds, catsup, chutney, coffee essence^ 
curry powder and paste, pepper, cayenne, perfumed oils, 
raspberry vinegar, combs, gelatine, chamois leather, corks, 
oils, (vegetable or other), in bottle, chinaware, porcelain and 
parian ware, glass unenumerated, glassware, brushware not 
otherwise enumerated. 
On May 27th the House of Representatives passed a vote 
of want of confidence in the Ministry, and it is thought 
they will appeal to the country on the Tariff question. 
(from our own correspondent.) 
Auckland, May 2, 1887. 
The Seventh Standard Examination of the Pharmacy 
Board of New Zealand was held throughout the colony on 
April 20. Six candidates presented themselves in Auckland,, 
one of whom hails from Napier, he having resided in Auck- 
land for the past year in order to obtain such advantages as 
Auckland can offer in the matter of tuition. From what can 
be gathered the candidates themselves seem to feel that in 
nearly every instance questions were put that they should 
reasonably be expected to answer. 
Years ago a student was being examined at Bloomsbury 
Square when he was shown a number of Materia Medica 
specimens to recognise. The candidate having made a 
thorough diagnosis by sight, touch, and smell, proceeded, as 
a last resource to test a more than usually difficult sample by 
the ordeal of the tongue. At this point the examiner 
quickly stopped him, and remarked that the general public 
might possibly be able to recognise specimens if such means 
were used and that skilled training would then become of little 
value. Among the specimens given for recognition in the last 
examination was Aconite Root, and one candidate put it to the 
ordeal of the tongue so effectually that he felt the local effects 
for some considerable time. Surely in the matter of tasting, 
some vetoing power should be exercised.* 
On the surface the matter of 
Intercolonial Reciprocity 
seems to present no insuperable difficulties. The knowledge 
required for the practice of Pharmacy throughout the Australa- 
sian colonies and England is identical, the Grand New Book is 
the same, its inconsistencies and its ambiguities are alike the 
heritage of all, every colony then has a common starting point. 
No colony has any particular vested interest which it is neces- 
sary to fight for and preserve. The examinations are very 
much on a par. Sometimes it is true a given set of papers 
appears more difficult than a previous set of the same Board, 
but up to the present the “toughness” of the questions 
is about the same all through the colonies. 
Mr, William Powell, late of Hobson-street, late of Mount 
Eden, has removed to Karangahape Road, the busiest 
thoroughfare out of Queen-street. This makes the fourth 
chemist’s shop in a road perhaps a little over a quarter of a 
mile in length. 
Mr. W. H. Tibbs has been appointed dispenser to the Auck- 
land Hospital in place of Mr. Young, 
Sharland & Co., Auckland, inform us that Mr. H. J. Carson, 
has commenced a new series of lectures, &c., for the 
preparation of candidates for the Pharmacy Board Examina- 
tion. Mr. Carson has proved very successful with his classes, 
and those who intend presenting themselves at the October 
Examination should lose no time in placing themselvea 
under his able tuition. The lecture room is on the third flat 
of the handsome building recently taken by the Australian 
Mutual Provident Society, and is suitably and comfortably 
fitted up. 
* The rule in Bloomsbury Square is as stated, but the reason generally 
given is the danger of tasting. Yet Squibb recommends the tongue as 
the best test for the quality of Aconite Root for xnanufactnring pur- 
poses. 
