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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
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Notices of Motion. 
Mr. Clapperton gave notice of motion for next meeting as 
fellows “ That it is desirable to appoint the examiners from 
outside the members of the Pharmacy Board;” also — “That 
it is not thought desirable for any member of a wholesale 
house to hold a seat on the Pharmacy Board.” 
Mr. Watkins gave notice of motion — “ That it is desirable 
to shorten the hours of business and to make them uniform in 
Brisbane.” 
Amendment of the Pharmacy Act. 
Mr. Costin in speaking to his motion — “That the Society 
discuss the Pharmacy Act with a view to its amendment,” 
stated that he had carefully gone through the Act as it now 
stood, and considered it was faulty and incomplete in 
several particulars. He called attention particularly to the 
following clauses : — 
Clause VIII.— “ Members of the Board, after the first, shall 
hold office for the three years next succeeding the month of 
their election, <&c.” 
It would be better that provision was made for the retire- 
ment of a part of the Pharmacy Board annually, instead of the 
whole Board being elected jointly for three years. 
Clause IX. — “ If any member of the Board during his term of 
office. ... be declared by resolution, concurred in by an 
absolute majority of the Board, unfit to remain a member of 
the Board, his seat shall become vacant, <&c.” 
This is arbitrary, and gives the majority of the Pharmacy 
Board power to expel any member whose opinions or persons 
were objectionable to them. 
Clause XXV. — . . It shall not be lawful for any per- 
son not duly registered as a pharmaceutical chemist under 
this Act, to assume or use the title of pharmaceutical chemist, 
&c., &c. . . .” This requires an addition to the following 
effect, “ who shall keep open shop for the sale of medicines 
or dispensing of prescriptions.” 
Further, that an additional clause was required providing 
that every shop, branch or otherwise, should be under the 
personal charge of a duly qualified and registered man. 
To complete the work it was necessary to ask the Hon. P. 
McPherson to re-introduce his Poisons Bill in the House of 
Parliament during the coming session. 
In conclusion, Mr. Costin proposed — ‘ ‘ That a sub-committee, 
consisting of Messrs. E. Taylor, Fitzgibbon, Yeo, Watkins, 
Clarke, Clapperton, and the mover, be appointed to discuss 
the Act, and bring up a report to the next meeting of 
the Society.” Seconded by Mr. Clapperton. 
Mr. Watkins proposed as an amendment — “ That the 
Society form itself into a committee of the whole, and meet 
•n the second Thursday following for the purpose.” 
Seconded by Mr. T. W. Thomason. 
Mr. Clapperton moved as a further amendment — “ That no 
member of the Pharmacy Board sit on such committee, as 
they would afterwards have to revise the recommendations of 
the Society when presented to them.” But this amendment 
failed, not being seconded. 
On Mr. Watkins’ amendment being put to the meeting, it 
was carried with few dissentients. 
Reciprocity with Victoria. 
Mr. Costin called attention to the action of the Victorian 
Board in refusing to recognise the certificate of other Boards, 
and thought it would be better under the circumstances to 
accept the Victorian certificate in Queensland. 
Mr. Clarke (Maryborough), while regretting that Victoria 
had not seen her way to reciprocity, gave it, as his opinion, 
that Victoria had much reason for her action, as while all 
registered chemists on the Victorian list had obtained their 
qualifications by examination, they would be compelled if 
they allowed reciprocity to receive as equals men who had 
passed no examination whatever. He (Mr. Clarke) had been 
led to understand that no outsiders would be allowed in Vic- 
toria, even as assistants, unless they complied in every 
respect with the Pharmacy Act of that colony. 
Mr. T. W. Thomason announced that the Pharmacy Board 
had resolved, after the 1st of May, to call upon all 
chemists in Queensland registered provisionally with Vic- 
torian certificates to present themselves for examination. 
Arrears. 
Mr. Clapperton, in moving the motion standing in his 
name — “ That no members be allowed to take part in the 
meetings whose subscriptions were three months in arrear,” 
urged the necessity of some such resolution, disclaiming any 
motive of personal feeling in the matter, as he was unaware 
what members were or were not in arrear. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. Thomason, but it was 
pointed out that it was unnecessary, as provision had been 
made for such cases in the rules of the Society (vide Rule 13). 
Botanical Gardens. 
Mr. Clarke (Maryborough) having to leave, asked permis- 
sion to address the meeting, and in a speech of some length 
proceeded to point out that the Society, being an educational 
body, were interested in the study of botany, and required 
certain facilities for the purpose. He had been visiting the 
Brisbane Botanical Gardens during the day, and had found 
that medicinal plants which were grown there some years 
before had been made away with to a great extent to make 
room for the ornamental. This was a mistake, and if it 
went on the gardens would lose in interest, and cease to 
fill one of the main objects for which they were established. 
He proposed that a deputation from the Society be appointed 
to wait on the Minister for Lands to point out the advisa- 
bility of a part of the gardens being appropriated to the 
cultivation of medicinal plants and other plants interesting 
in connection with the systematic study of botany. 
A discussion took place, in which many members took 
part, and it was finally resolved that a deputation, consisting 
of Messrs. Clarke (Maryborough), Fitzgibbon, Thomason, 
Field, Yeo, and D. J. Clarke, wait upon the Minister for 
Lands next day to bring the matter under his notice, and 
to ask that steps be taken to facilitate and encourage the 
study of botany. 
Students. 
Mr. H. W. Thomason, in moving the resolution standing in 
his name — “That students attending the Pharmacy classes be 
required to make a deposit to cover the loss by breakage of 
any apparatus the property of the Society by them, such 
deposit to be returned to the student at the end of the 
session if no claim upon it” — pointed out the necessity of 
some such regulation. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. Ayscough, and carried. 
A further resolution, proposed and seconded by the same 
gentlemen, fixing the amount of such deposit at the sum of 
10s. 6d. was then carried, and the meeting shortly afterwards 
terminated. 
NOMINATIONS FOR COUNCIL. 
The following gentlemen have been nominated for the 
Council of twelve members, viz. : — 
Ayscough, Jas. W., Brisbane 
Berkley, Robert do. 
Clapperton, W. G., South Brisbane 
Clarke, David, Maryborough 
Clarke, D. J., Brisbane 
Colledge, W. R. do. 
Cormack, M. H. do. 
Costin, W. J. do. 
Dunne, L. C. do. 
Field, A. W. do. 
Fitzgibbon, J. H. do. 
Heeney, P. J., Ipswicb 
Hodgson, J. L., Toowoomba 
Lale, Wui., Ipswich 
McDermott, J. J., Rockhampton 
McLean, J.E. B., Toowong 
Martin, A., Brisbane 
Noble, W. A., Toowoomba 
Taylor, Edward, Brisbane 
Taylor, Walter do. 
Thomason, H. W., Sth. Brisbane 
Thomason, T. W. do. 
Watkins, G-., Brisbane 
Yeo, C. H.F. do. 
The Election takes place in the first week in August. 
(from our own correspondent.) 
Brisbane, May 18, 1887. 
At last, after many delays, the School of Pharmacy classes 
are to be recommenced. Arrangements have been made for 
the classes to be held in the rooms of the Pharmacy Board, 
I hope that all will now go on smoothly and that our young 
men will attend regularly, for if they wish to pass their 
examinations, they must give their whole attention to study. 
The report in your last issue of The Chemist and Druggist 
of Australasia, stating that the New South Wales Society had 
agreed to reciprocate with all the other colonies, does not 
meet with much favour here, in fact, every one I have spoken 
to on the subject seem to think it undesirable. If Victoria is 
such a believer in Protection that she will have none of us, it 
is no reason why New South Wales should rush to the other 
extremity, and open her doors to all comers, for this is what 
she is practically doing when she reciprocates with South 
Australia. In saying this I do not, in any way, wish to be 
considered disrespectful to our South Australian brethren, but 
I take this view of the subject. South Australia has not, as 
