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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Oct. 1, 1895. 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(from our owx correspondents.) 
PHARMACY BOARD OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
The monthly meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon, 
September 3, 1895. There were present — Messrs. Butcher 
(Vice-president), Brothwood, Jones, Withers, Wells, and 
Williams. 
Minutes. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed and 
signed. 
The Foreign Qualification Revived. 
Mogens Johannes Arnsen, of Casino, wrote, through 
Elliott Bros. Limited, for a poisons’ certificate. He said he 
was not registered in New South Wales, though he held the 
certificate of a registered chemist in Denmark — the degree 
of Dr. of Pharmacognosy. When he first came to New 
South Wales he applied to the Board, and was refused on 
account of the state of the law. He stated he was now in 
business as a chemist and druggist, and found himself in 
rather an awkward position, inasmuch as a storekeeper in 
the same town had a poisons’ license. He added that if the 
Board could give a poisons’ license to a man who had no 
knowledge of poisons or drugs, it ought to consider a 
thoroughly qualified man. 
Elliott Bros, wrote stating that it was a great hardship 
that a gentleman of Mr. Arnsen’s qualifications should be 
refused a license to sell poisons when a permit was granted 
to a storekeeper. 
Mr. Brothwood thought the Board ought to make some 
allowance in a case like this. It seemed to him that if a 
man was qualified, and not able to be registered on account 
of the faulty Act, he was very harshly dealt with, while a 
man in the same district, without any knowledge of poisons, 
was granted a certificate. The applicant ought to be granted 
a license to sell poisons at the pleasure of the Board. To 
refuse him under the circumstances would be highly 
absurd. ^ 
The Chairman : The same old bugbear again. 
Mr. Jones ; We ought to give him a storekeepers’ license. 
Mr. Williams : Is he keeping an open pharmacv ? 
The Chairman : Yes. 
Mr. Williams: Then we can’t grant his application. We 
have refused everybody else. 
: We have refused chemists from the 
United Kingdom. 
Mr. Jones: Why not give him a storekeepers’ license. 
He IS more entitled to it than the man who has it at 
Casino. 
The Chairman : If you do that you put him in the posi- 
tion of a licensed pharmacist. 
Mr. Brothwood : No ; only in the same position as a 
storekeeper. 
Mr. J^es : If he keeps a pharmacy we can’t help that. 
1 ^* , . ' That won’t do. If we grant his 
application, we will have lots of men all over the 
country asking for the same privilege, so that they might 
keep a pharmacy. One of our strongest arguments in 
favour of a Pharmacy Act is that the Poisons Act is 
iniperiect, and if we go back on the stand we have 
talwn in strictly interpreting the law we are less likely 
to have the same power of convincing the Government and 
the public of the necessity of fresh legislation. I admit 
©justice of the case as against the storekeeper who know 
nothing about poisons, still, after the number of decisions 
a ready given, the Board cannot grant an unregistered 
biTdne^s^^^^*^^^ conduct a chemist’s and druggist’s 
m^tin^*^^^^^^^^^ matter was postponed to the next 
^ Storekeepers’ Poisons Licenses. 
lh(^as Nance, Nambucca River. Renewal granted. 
Maclean, wrote complaining about an 
nquaiit^d man keeping an open chemist’s shop. The 
writer ac^iUed he himself was not a registered man, but 
assured the Board he always employed a qualified man. It 
was decided to communicate with the Inspector-General of 
Police on the subject. 
The Pharmacy Bill. 
A letter was received from the Under- Secretary of the 
Treasury announcing that the Government would not intro- 
duce the Pharmacy Bill this session. This letter came as 
an answer to one from the Board humbly asking for a 
private interview with Mr. G. H. Reid. 
A trivial police report ended the meeting. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH 
WALES. 
The monthly meeting was held on Tuesday, September 
17, there being present Messrs. Butcher (Vice-President, in ! 
the chair), Beard, Jones, Marshall, Weils, Withers, and i 
Williams. 
Minutes. i 
The minutes of the August meeting were read over and . { 
confirmed. j 
Memorial Picture. j 
Mr. Williams gave notice of motion to take steps to have i 
a memorial picture of the late Frank Senior hung in the ! 
rooms, on the ground that he had rendered extensive ser- 1 
vices to the Society. I 
Arrears of Subscriptions. | 
In pursuance of Mr. Marshall’s motion at the last meet- I 
ing for a list of members in arrears with their annual- sub- : 
scriptions and individual indebtedness, the Secretary pro- ' 
duced a document of 25 foolscap sheets, embracing upwards ; 
of 550 names. 
Mr. Marshall wanted it read, but when the length of it i 
was demonstrated, he altered his mind. ! 
The list was scanned by the members, who were thunder- 
struck to find the total in arrears to be £3534 7s. 
Mr. Marshall quoted clause 13 of the constitution : — “ All i 
annual subscriptions shall become due on 1st day of | 
January, and if not paid by the 1st day of March the ‘ 
defaulter shall cease to be a member, but the Council shall | 
have power to re-admit upon a reasonable explanation and | 
payment of a suitable fine.” He thought a sub-committee 
ought to be appointed to investigate the whole question of 
arrears and bring up a report to the Council. 
The Chairman suggested that a circular should be sent to j 
all in arrears with a view to inducing them to pay up. ! 
Mr. Beard understood that a motion was passed three j 
years ago to the effect that if members paid the current | 
subscriptions and a fine of 10s. 6d. their arrears would be | 
wiped out. 1 
Mr. Marshall clearly pointed out that the Council had | 
nothing to do with such a resolution of three years ago, as 
there was nothing in the bye-laws to permit of such a 
motion. It could only be done by an alteration of the bye- 
laws. He agreed with the idea of a circular, and thought 
clause 13 ought to be quoted to defaulters. 
Mr. Williams favoured the circular, and suggested that 
the amount of indebtedness should be written on each 
member’s circular. | 
The Chairman said it would have no effect, and it was a ] 
question whether or not the circular would do any good. | 
Mr. Williams agreed that they were not likely to get in ! 
much of the arrear money. The only thing to do was to 
wipe out the arrears and readmit on the payment of this 
year’s subscription. 
The Chairman felt it was the only course open ; at the 
same time it was very unfair to those who had paid up. 
Mr. Williams was satisfied that members would never 
pay up as they had nothing to get in return. What benefits 
were there ? 
The Chairman : If the subscriptions had been paid up 
regularly we might now have a building of our own and a 
college like Melbourne. 
Mr. Wells, as one of the first life members, regretted the 
position of the Society, and pointed out that the society in 
Melbourne had a proper system, and could make the mem- 
bers pay up by depriving them of the right to have their 
names on the register. — [Not the Register of Pharmaceu- 
tical Chemists, which is the legal qualification, but only 
from the Register of Members of the Society. — Editor.] 
Eventually, after a lengthy conversational discussion, it 
was found that there was only one course open, and it was 
moved by Mr. Marshall, and carried, as follows : — “ That 
