THE BOUNCING PHARMACY BOARD.

NZ Truth, Issue 133, 17 August 1907, Page 4

THE BOUNCING PHARMACY BOARD.

Likened to a Snake m the Grass. Shaw Says it is Better to be m Ireland. •Everybody ih this colony of cooperation seems to be committing Unionism these days. Even the common professions are falling into line, and by .gar we will probably soon hear of the cheap and worried bank clerks resolving and resoluting m favor of their empty pockets, so we will. Not Jong ago the chemists of the colony, or a large majority of them, deoidied that they, couldn't really dispense prescriptions or sell sticking plaster, or stamps, on Sundays unless Parliament gave them enlarged powers. These powers were accorded thean, although numerous dispensers kicked against it and are kicking still. New rules and regulations were drawn up, and it was made compulsory that every chemist should pay a silly tax to the Pharmacy Board of ten bob a year. If this isn't paid, the malcontents are struck off the Register, no matter how old. a chemist he may be, what experience he has hadf— experience gained before LATTER DAY NINCOMPOOPS were born, But now that an additional tax is to be levied the gorge of many a dispenser is aroused, including Mr Frank Shaw, of Blenheim, Mr E. R. Allpress, of Christchurch, and others, and this letter from the pen of Shaw appears m the Jast issue of "The Chemist andi Druggist of. Australasia," a journal widely read by the pill fraternity:— AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PHARMACY BOARD OF N.Z-