PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6318, 22 February 1922, Page 5

PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY.

MEDICATED WINES IN NOLICENSE AREAS.

NO LEGISLATION TO BE

ENACTED

AUCKLAND, Feb. lm. The Pharmaceutical Society’s conference reiterated its demand that; dispensing in hospitals should be feioiie by qualified chemists only. ' W, [ n regard to the sale of medicated wines in no-license districts of the Dominion the Chemists’ Defence Association reported as the AttorneyGeneral stated he could not advise Cabinet to submit to Parliament an amendment to legislation on the lines suggested" by ■ the association namely, that the best way out of the difficulty would be to standardise all medicated wines by addition of a specified quantity of medicament rendering them unfit for use ,;S a beverage," the association had decided to support no more cases in no-license districts. The Conference endorsed the Association’s action, r.nd approved the proposal to bring the matter further before the Government. It was resolved to urge an amendment to the Pharmacy Act, time chemists and enrolled managers be compelled to display a certificate of registration. . • V Canterbury - remit recommending the Pharmacy Boards to encourage apprentices to take a course in in si and was amended that a recommendation- be made to Master Chemists and Chemists Assistants Guilds. . . Conference approved the action by individual chemists in refusing vo market goods not approved by their divisions. An Auckland remit was carried uimnc that the formation ot ms Proprietary Amides Retailers Association be forwarded with greater vigor. .... The principal remits dealt with ’pharmaceutical education. . ; An Auckland remit was adopted that university colleges in each centre be asked to provide lectures for students, such lectures to be compulsory, together with a request that the Pharmacy Beard take immediate action, and in the event or the Auckland proposals being found unworkable, the Board should frame a scheme for the establishment of a School of Pharmacy, _ such scheme to be laid before divisions for discussions. The conference also endorsed an Auckland remit favoring an amendment of the law to enable Sunday hours to be fixed by requisition. P.A.