Vol. X., No. 9. THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
(from our own correspondents.) 
PHA.KMACY BOARD OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Monthly Meeting held Wednesday, August 28, 1895. 
Present — The President (Mr. Mee), Messrs. Turner, 
Horrox and Brittain. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con- 
firmed. 
Correspondence. 
From J. Coster notifying change of address from Auck- 
land to Waihi. Received. 
From Mr. J. H. Mason, Kahio, with declaration that 
Phmbe Mason was 21 years of age and upwards on De- 
cember 31, 1880. Resolved, that a certificate be issued to 
Phoebe Mason. 
From Mr. H. A. Garland, saying that Mr. E. J. Wright’s 
application is in order, and that he personally knows that 
the declarations are correct. Resolved that a certificate be 
issued. 
From the editor of Sharland's Journal offering to publish 
Professor Kirk’s lecture in the September issue, and to 
supply the Board with 200 separate copies of the lecture 
only, free of charge. The offer to be accepted with thanks. 
The Registrar was instructed to ask the Examiners to 
furnish papers for the October Examination in time for the 
September meeting of the Board. 
The Pharmacy Bill. 
Resolved, that the Registrar write to the Hon. Mr. 
Cadman re the amendments to the Pharmacy Bill, which 
appeared on the Parliamentary order paper on July 16, 
objecting to the word “ chemist” being used by herbalists in 
any way, and to the omission of sub-sections 3 and 4 of sec- 
tion 31. Ask why section 36 is omitted, and thank him for 
the adoption of the Board’s suggestions with regard to 
sections 27 and 29. 
CENTRAL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Monthly meeting, held at the Secretary’s office, Featherston- 
street, on Monday evening, September 9, 1895. 
Present — Mr. Owen (President), Messrs. Berry, Giesen, 
Woods, Parker, Warburton, Wilton, and Hustwick (Secre- 
tary). 
Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Outward correspondence and letters from Hons. A. J. 
Cadman and J. G. Ward were read. 
The Pharmacy Bill. 
The President verbally reported as to the interview with 
the Hon. Mr. Cadman. 
Supplementary order paper No. 14, containing the 
Minister’s proposed amendments to the Pharmacy Bill was 
read and discussed. 
Resolved — “ That the Secretary draft a letter to the Hon. 
Mr. Cadman, showing the anomaly and injustice of creating 
a special class to be called ‘herbal or botanic chemists,’ 
such terms being contradictory, and emphatically protest- 
ing against the amendments to clause IV., and sub-section 
4 of clause XXXIV.” 
Resolved — “ That the President, Secretary, and Mr. 
Wilton be a committee to draft a circular to members of 
the House of Representatives, calling attention to the danger 
of the proposed amendments, asking that they will vote 
against them, and generally support the Bill in its 
integrity.” 
The Friendly Societies’ Coupons . 
Resolved, the Secretary write to the individual Friendly 
Society lodges now using the coupon scheme to the effect 
that unless the lodges are prepared to guarantee that the 
whole of the coupons shall be dispensed among the chemists 
named on the coupons, the chemists will, after the end of 
the present month, refuse to continue the present arrange- 
ment for dispensing. 
Mr. Peter Drummond is again in Wellington, having 
finished his engagement as locum tenens for Mr. Nash, of 
Woodville. 
The Pononga Electric Co, (H. de C. Hudson and A. H. 
Newton), belt manufacturers, of Wellington, have dissolved 
partnership. 
The business till lately carried on by Mr. J. M. Hay, at 
Westport, has been closed, and Mr. Hay has left the town. 
There is a probability that the shop will be re-opened. 
The knowledge of the drug business possessed by the 
Government as evidenced by the revised tariff is pretty well 
summed up in the following paragraph in the “free” list: — 
Essential oils, except eucalyptus, cod liver oil, oil of 
rhodium. 
Parkinson &; Co. have bought from Mr. De Castro the 
business he had carried on at Greymouth. The firm still 
continue their business at Brunner under the management 
of Mr. J. W. Parkinson. The new venture is managed by 
Mr. F. J. Parkinson, who was in Melbourne in 1889, and a 
student at the College of Pharmacy, and was afterwards 
with Mr. P. M‘Lean, pharmaceutical chemist, Fitzroy. 
Mr. T. Hood, manager for Teed & Co.’s Stratford branch, 
who was formerly in business in Wellington, visited that 
place for a few days in the middle of September. Some 
weeks ago Mr. Hood had a spill from his horse, which 
resulted in concussion of the brain, and it is with a view of 
recouping that he is taking a trip. Seeing that he was 
reported by the Stratford and Inglewood papers to have died 
from his injuries, some of his friends will be rather surprised 
to see him. 
Mf. F. W. Maddox, of Maddox, Ancell and Co., is at 
present on a trip to the South Island, where he is doing a 
good business, particularly in Barnet plates. 
Izal is being vigorously pushed in New Zealand just now 
by Mr. Joseph Godber, agent for the makers— Newton, 
Chambers & Co., of Sheffield. Mr. Godber has been travel- 
ling round amongst chemists and doctors, and there is 
already a fair demand for some of the Izal preparations. 
The Annual Meeting of the Central Pharmaceutical 
Association will be held during the first week of October. 
The Association has been looking up considerably, and there 
is every hope that the Empire City will after all make a 
name for itself among the pharmacists of New Zealand. 
Mr. Hustwick makes a good secretary, and that has a lot 
to do with the success of the society. “ Mayit live long and 
prosper.” 
Pharmaey Board Examinations —Preparations are 
being made for the October examination of the Pharmacy 
Board — the last one that will be held by the Wellington 
Board. There are, so far, only three applications for 
examination in Wellington. There will, no doubt, be a 
change of examiners before the next examination, and some 
of the candidates are hoping for easier times, especially as 
regards botany. 
Well to be a Doctor (?)— A resident of Taita, near 
Wellington, recently brought an action against a grocer of 
Taranaki-street, Wellington, for £75 12s. 6d. compensation 
for the bite of a dog. The evidence revealed that a local 
medico had sent in a bill for £45 12s. 6d. The R.M. gave 
judgment for the plaintiff, allowing £1 8s. 6d. for medical 
attendance and £5 10s. further damages, with costs 
amounting to £2 19s. 
A special meeting of the Central Pharmaceutical 
Association was held on September 10 for the considera- 
tion of the new tariff, prices of patents, &c. The meeting 
was fairly well attended, but not as the importance of 
the occasion called for. The general opinion of the meet- 
ing was that it would be quite necessary to compile a price 
list of patents, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Mee, 
Woods, Hustwick, and Wilton, was appointed to make pre- 
liminary arrangements. 
Mr. Arthur has been in Wellington on behalf of Parke, 
Davis & Co.j and he reported good results. The doctors of 
Wellington are as vacillating as weather cocks, and every 
traveller that visits them leaves an impression behind that 
lasts until another one comes. At present we have “ P. D. 
<fc Co.” put after almost every ingredient in some prescrip- 
