3058
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

production of plants. A knowledge of the chief characteristics of the following natural orders and of the economic products yielded by members of the following orders: Compositæ, Labiatæ, Cruciferæ, Ranunculaceæ, Leguminosæ, Graminaceæ, Rubiaceæ, Myrtaceæ, Liliaceæ, Umbelliferæ.

Candidates may be called upon to describe any plant submitted, and if it belongs to any of the orders already named to refer it to its order.

(3.) Chemistry.—Written: A knowledge of the laws of chemical combination, atomic hypothesis, valency, Victor Meyer's method of determining molecular weights, principles of volumetric analysis, and calculations involving these subjects; the preparation and properties of metals and non-metals of the B.P., and their more important B.P. compounds; the methods of determining the composition and formula of water, ammonia, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen-sulphide, and carbon-dioxide; elementary organic chemistry, including the ground covered in the first 200 pages of Remsen's Organic Chemistry.

Practical Chemistry.—The determination of specific gravity of solids and liquids; systematic qualitative analysis of solutions containing not more than two simple inorganic salts; acid and basic radicle to be detected; the preparation and use of B.P. volumetric solutions for estimating acids and alkalies, liquor arsenicalis, tincture of iodine, and hydrocyanic acid; the use of the nitrometer in testing spirit of nitrous ether and hydrogen-peroxide. Recognition of organic compounds by tests—e.g., alcohol, phenol, starch, cane-sugar, milk-sugar, acetates, citrates, cyanides, tartrates, morphine, quinine, and strychnine.

Candidates must make a note of each experiment performed, the result obtained, and the conclusion arrived at, and hand their reports or notes to the examiner.

(4.) Pharmacy.—Written: Translation of Latin prescriptions into English, and of English prescriptions into Latin. Knowledge of pharmaceutical processes—e.g., evaporation, distillation, sublimation, calcination, fusion, maceration, percolation, lixiviation, elutriation, precipitation, filtration, dialysis; their uses in pharmacy, and the apparatus usually employed in these processes. Knowledge of the composition, preparation, and preservation of B.P. preparations, and the proportion of active ingredients in them. Knowledge of posology, incompatibles, solubilities of common drugs, antidotes, excipients, emulsifiers, weights and measures (apothecaries, avoirdupois, and metric), and calculations involving these; the provisions for selling and dispensing poisons scheduled in the New Zealand Poison Act and its amendments.

Oral: Read and translate into English (and explain grammatical construction of) prescriptions submitted; detect errors and unusual doses, and answer questions arising from the prescriptions and any other questions the examiner may submit. The examining supervisor may in cases of doubt ask additional questions arising out of or connected with the questions set by the examiner.

Practical: Weigh, measure, and compound medicines according to prescriptions submitted, write the directions, and finish and direct the package of compounded medicine. Make B.P. preparations if requested, the candidate having access to the B.P.

(2.) Candidates may take at one examination the subjects required for (1) both Sections A and B, (2) Section A only, or (3) Section B only, provided a pass has previously been obtained in Section A, or exemption from examination in Section A has previously been granted by the Board under the provision hereinafter contained.

In order to obtain a pass in Section A candidates must obtain 50 per cent. of marks in each subject at one sitting.

Candidates for Section B may take all subjects at one examination, or they may take any two subjects. In order to obtain a full pass at one sitting candidates must obtain 50 per cent. of marks in botany, chemistry, Materia Medica, and each division of pharmacy. A partial pass will be granted to candidates who obtain 65 per cent. of marks in each of any two subjects.

(3.) If a candidate applies in writing to the Registrar to be exempted from examination in Section A, and lodges with the Registrar a certificate that he has passed the Matriculation examination of any university, or the Junior Civil Service Examination of New Zealand (provided that Latin be included), or any other examination approved by the Board, he shall be entitled to exemption from Section A examination.

(4.) The following text-books are recommended by the Board:—

Materia Medica.—Greenish's Introduction to Materia Medica; Squires's Companion to the B.P.; Wills's Materia Medica.

Botany.—Introduction to the Study of Botany, by Dendy and Lucas.

Chemistry.—Shenstone's Inorganic Chemistry; Remsen's Organic Chemistry; Thorpe and Muir's Qualitative Analysis, or any other standard work on qualitative analysis.

Pharmacy.—Cripp's Pharmacy; Art of Dispensing (C. & D.); Ince's Latin Grammar of Pharmacy.

28. Examinations shall be held half-yearly—viz., on the third Tuesday and following days in the months of April and October in each year—and shall be held at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Candidates for examination must signify to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar for their respective districts their intention to present themselves, and also pay the prescribed fee thirty days prior to the date of examination, and furnish evidence by statutory declaration (duly stamped) that they will, at the date of examination, have attained the age of eighteen years.

On and after the 1st day of April, 1909, the following regulations shall come into and be in force:—

REGISTRATION OF ARTICLES OF APPRENTICESHIP.

28A. The Registrar shall keep a register to be called “The Register of Articles of Apprenticeship,” in which shall be entered the following particulars of articles of apprenticeship sent to him as hereinafter mentioned—that is to say, the date of the articles, the names and descriptions of the master, apprentice, and parent or guardian of the apprentice parties to the articles, the date of commencement and duration of the term provided for in the articles, the date of assignment (if any) of the apprentice, the name and address of the new master under any such assignment, and the date of entry of the foregoing particulars.

28B. Every registered chemist, party to articles of apprenticeship for teaching the apprentice therein named the art or occupation of a chemist and druggist now unexpired, shall forthwith send such articles of apprenticeship to the Registrar, to be recorded in the Register of Articles of Apprenticeship and returned on completion of the entries of record.

28C. Every registered chemist who shall hereafter enter into and execute articles of apprenticeship for teaching the apprentice therein named the art or occupation of a chemist and druggist, and every registered chemist who shall hereafter become entitled under assignment of any articles of apprenticeship for the purpose aforesaid, shall forthwith after the execution of such articles of apprenticeship or such assignment, as the case may be, send such articles of apprenticeship or such assignment respectively to the Registrar, to be recorded in the Register of Articles of Apprenticeship and returned on completion of the entries of record.

Dated the 27th day of July, 1908.

RICH'D. D. HANLON,
President.

GEO. BAGLEY,
GEO. W. WILTON,
FRED. CASTLE,
Members of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand.

CHAS. W. NIELSEN,
Registrar.

I hereby approve of the foregoing regulations under “The Pharmacy Act, 1898,” this 20th day of November, 1908.

PLUNKET, Governor.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Special Order made by the Coldstream Road Board.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th November, 1908.

THE following special order, made by the Coldstream Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1908.”

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs

COLDSTREAM ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

RESOLVED, That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by “The Road Boards Act, 1908,” and “The Public Works Act, 1908,” the Coldstream Road Board doth hereby make the following by-law:—

No person shall cut grass for seed on any road under the control of the Coldstream Road Board without having previously obtained the consent in writing of the said Board to do so, under a penalty, at the discretion of the Court, of not more than £10 sterling for every breach of such by-law.

I hereby certify that the special order making the above by-law was duly passed in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1908.”

Wm. C. FORD;
Clerk, Coldstream Road Board.