CHEMIST HEAVILY FINED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 157, 12 October 1910, Page 6

CHEMIST HEAVILY FINED

FOR BREACHES OP PHARMACY ACT.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. A decision of importance to chemists and druggists was given by Mr. Riddell, S.M., to-day, in a prosecution brought by the Pharmacy Board against Frank Shaw, chemist, for an alleged breach of the Pharmacy Act, 1008, in unlawfully keeping open his place of business in Wellington on eight dates specified, for compounding or dispensing of prescriptions not under his own immediate supervision or control or that of his duly enrolled manager. The Magistrate said that defendant had three shops in the city. It was admitted that he had applied on July 11, 1910, to the Pharmacy Board to) have Miss Gregory enrolled as manager of his shop in Lambton Quay, and, according to the roll Miss Gregory was enrolled as manager of that shop. By the form of application for managei, defendant stated that he intended to keep open the shop for compounding and of prescriptions at Lambton Quay. Sub-section 40 of the Pharmacy Act lays down that every chemist commits an offence who keeps, or permits to be kept under his name, any open shop or place of business for compounding or dispensing prescriptions save under his own immediate supervision and control, or that of his duly enrolled manager. The evidence of detectives, of defendant and another witness snowed that on the dates mentioned in the information, the shop was kept open for the purpose named, and that it was undei the immediate control of neither defendant nor Miss Gregory. Prom the position taken up by the defendant, said ; the Magistrate, one would gather that his idea of enrolment of a manager for a particular shop was a mere matter of form, and that he could transfer such manager from one shop to another at his own discretion without any reference to the Pharmacy Board. The Magistrate did not think that was the intention of the section. Defendant was fined five shillings for each day the offence was committed, making a total penalty of £4O, with costs £2 7s. Security for appeal was fixed at ten guineas.