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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
QUEENSLAND. 
(from ouu own correspondents.) 
PHARMACY BOARD OF QUEENSLAND. 
Ordinary Meeting, September 5, 1895. 
Present—Messrs. H. A. Chater (President), A. W. Field, 
W. Taylor, T. W. Thomason, G. Watkins, and the 
Registrar. 
An apology was received from Mr. C. H. F. Y^eo. 
The minutes of the previous meetings (August 1 and 29) 
were read and confirmed. 
Copies of letters outwards were read and approved. 
Letters Inwards.— E. D. Barry, Cootamundra, stating 
that in 1886 he paid £2 2s. for provisional registration, and 
asking that his name be placed on the register, or the 
amount be refunded. As the register was in the hands of 
the deposition clerk at the Police Court, in connection with 
case of the Pharmacy Board v. Dixon, the matter was 
ordered to stand over. Mrs. H. E. Miller, applying for 
permission to carry on her late husband’s business for a 
further period of 12 months under the management of a 
registered pharmaceutical chemist. Application granted. 
R. C. Park, Charters Towers, acknowledging receipt of 
indentures and stamps. Received. J. F. Sloan, Colonial 
Secretary’s office, asking if any regulations had been issued 
by the Pharmacy Board under The Sale and Use of 
Poisons Act 1891. The Registrar had replied that he was 
unable to give the information required, as the Act referred 
to was not administered by that Board. F. W. Dawson, 
forwarding stamps covering balance of fees. Received. The 
Registrar, the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 
stating that the Society would be very pleased to present 
the Pharmacy Board of Queensland with specimens from 
duplicates in their collection, and suggesting that, to obviate 
the sending of specimens, of which the Board had already 
satisfactory examples, a list of what was required should be 
sent to their curator, Mr. E. M. Holmes. Resolved that 
Messrs. Thomason, Watkins, and the Registrar draw up a 
list and make all necessary arrangements. Registrar- 
General, forwarding vital statistics and general statistical 
register for the year 1894. Acknowledged. 
Treasurer’s Report. 
The Treasurer’s report of receipts and expenditure for 
the month ending August 31, 1895, was read and received. 
Payments. 
Accounts amounting to £0 15s. lOd. were passed for pay- 
ment. 
Transfer of Indentures. 
The transfer of the indentures of apprenticeship of John 
Benson, from Ernest Charles Blake to William Alexander 
M‘Guflie, were ordered to be noted in the Register of 
Apprentices. 
The Registrar was directed to write to the Commissioner 
of Stamps asking if a guinea stamp duty would have to be 
paid on transfers of indentures in which there was no 
further consideration than what had been paid to the 
master when the indentures were first stamped. 
Cancellation of Provisional Registration. 
As Monkbouse Graham had failed to supply the Board 
with the information required, the provisional registration 
which was granted for 12 months, from August 29, 1894, 
was ordered to be cancelled, the cancellation to be published 
in the Goveriivient Gazette, and Mr. Graham to be notified 
accordingly. 
The names of 35 chemists, to whom letters had been 
addressed to ascertain their change of residence, were 
ordered to be struck off the register at the expiration of six 
months from the date on which the letters were sent. 
Meeting adjourned. 
Adjourned Meeting, September 12, 1895. 
Present— Messrs. H. B. Chater (President), A. W. Field, 
W. Taylor, G. Watkins, C. H. F. Yeo, and the Registrar. 
Reports of Examiners. Professional Exjvjiination. 
The examiners reported that F. W. Clarke had obtained 
the requisite number of marks in all subjects. Passed. 
Oct. 1, 1895. 
Preliminary Examination. 
Mr. Scott’s report showed that E. St. Vincent Judd had 
passed. One other candidate had failed to satisfy the 
examiner. Report adopted. 
Payments. 
Accounts amounting to £32 14s. were passed for payment. 
Be E. D. Barry’s application.— As the Registrar had 
been unable to obtain the register from the police court, 
in time for the meeting, it was resolved that the matter be 
left in the hands of the Registrar and President, and that if 
the provisional registration was in force for the period 
allowed, and its confirmation was dependent on the 
establishment of reciprocity with Victoria (as stated by Mr. 
Barry in his letter), Mr. Barry be informed that as there 
was no reciprocity with Victoria the Board were unable to 
register him in Queensland, and as they had fulfilled all the 
conditions of the provisional registration, the money could 
not be refunded. 
Meeting terminated. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
Council Meeting, held September IS, 1895. 
Present— Messrs. H. W. Thomason (President), A. S. 
Denham, A. W. Field, W. Taylor, G. Watkins, and the 
Secretary. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Copies of letters outwards were read and approved. 
Letters Inwards.— Miss Skyring, forwarding subscrip- 
tion. Received. Acting C.P.S., Percyville, stating that 
there were no persons practising as chemists at the Percy 
River. Received. Government Statist, Adelaide, forward- 
ing statistics of deaths from poison. To be acknowledged 
with thanks. Some other letters which had been received 
were ordered to be held over until the next meeting. 
Payments. 
Accounts amounting to £3 lls. 8d. were passed for pay- 
ment. 
Election. 
Miss C. L. A. Skyring and Mr. A. J. Zieman were elected 
as associates of the Society. 
Mr. J. W. Ayscough was nominated as a member of the 
Society. 
The Treasurer’s report for the month ending September 
17, 1895, was presented, and received. The following 
amounts had been received since the last meeting T. D. 
Rutter, £1 Is.; G. J. Mackay, £1 Is.; A. Burman, £1 Is.; 
C. L. A. Skyring, 5s.; A. J Zieman, 5s.; G. J. Page, £1 Is.; 
E. C. Blake, £1 Is.; total, £5 15s. 
The Secretary was instructed to send a copy of the 
memorandum of information to every chemist and to every 
chemist’s assistant and apprentice in the colony. 
Meeting terminated. 
General Meeting.— The Early-closing Question, 
On Wednesday evening, September 18, at 8 p.m., a 
general meeting of the chemists of Brisbane and district 
was held in the room used for the meetings of the Phar- 
maceutical Society. 
There were present -Messrs, H. W. Thomason (Presi- 
dent of the Pharmaceutical Society), W. Taylor, A. S. 
Denham, A. W. Field, G. Watkins, W. J. Costin, G. W. 
Marshall, S. H, Vaughan, W. J. Trouton, W. Allen 
Waters, M. Ward, W. G. Clapperton, A, Burman, J. H. 
Fitzgibbon, and E. C. Blake (Secretary of the Phar- 
maceutical Society). Apologies were received from Messrs. 
J. W. Ayscough, R. Berkley, T. D. Rutter, W. W. Watson, 
A. B. Chater, and J. E. Donaldson, the latter of whom 
wrote saying that he believed in early closing with permis- 
sion to open for dispensing only. 
The Chairman (Mr, H. W. Thomason), after expressing 
his gratification at seeing sucli a representative meeting, 
explained that the meeting had been summoned by the 
Pharmaceutical Society to consider a clause which had 
been inserted in the Shops Early Closing Bill allowing 
chemists to supply only urgent medicines and surgical 
appliances urgently required after 6 p.m. He himself was 
of opinion that it would be well if some means could be 
