CORRESPONDENCE

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1887, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE

T!ic Sale of I'oisons

(To tlie Editor.)

Siu,- Tn your ineue of Tuesday you deal with the subject of restrictions on the palo of poisons, und urga a course wliioh if followed cannot be otlitr than bemfimi to the public at loryo. While dilating up<m t.ho subject, bomvar, you rcrn^ik : ' 'l'ho i,n,rti.i hiiyo Ufi-.ii tn^tp ~f, bpi'^fß iniw oy the Piiarmacy Board of Kcw Zt-.10nd." Tlii<in exactly whit hus been done by thr Diarm .cy Hoard, who have urgonr.ly striven i. Lilt' direction during til-, (lust, four ymur. \\ i-h tins, I send you a draft ot ft bill which tinrao boforothe Hou-o of H-.-proeenta'ivce in 1885, but wa* thrown out, obietly through thu remarks of o:io of our loading Aucklund members, who feared the formation of a clo-e guild by the body uf chemists. This bill in almupt a iac»imile of tho Vifctorian Sale and Ups of Poisons Act, which works well and is faithfully carried

Perhaps, yir, joijr powerful advocacy may aid the- now Jiotud to pbtain ilie p*?" ing of the bill, whneo draft is now bpfore you, .uid al»o the amendment to tho Pharmacy Act,which is so constructed that, though it gi-t^ ail the pmvors requisite for the chemist soft he colony to moke regulations Rcpoßting rocognii i.,n of diplomas from other piu-ta of the world, docs not give legal p w«.r to obtuin a meeting or dociston of th.i^n intereyted - tho regis'ered chemUtß of N. w Zealand. Thi" aloua ftands in the way of that reciprocity so mucn needed in tho c .lonies, ami for which an Intercolonial Conference Wtt» lately hold at Melbourne. 1 -.in, &■:.,

J. -i. Pond, Member of tho Pharmacy Board of Now ioalatid.