Pharmacy

1949      Apprenticed to Ernest W.F.White, Pharmaceutical Chemist, of Summer St, Orange, New South Wales    
1950   Apprenticeship transferred to Lloyd Hittmann, Pharmaceutical Chemist of   Lyons Road, Drummoyne in Sydney. 
 1st Year Pharmacy, University of Sydney
1951    2nd Year Pharmacy, University of Sydney. This year was called "Materia Medica"
1952  On 8th April, Registered by the Pharmacy Board of New South Wales  -  "Ph.C."                                                                                                                            On 1st April, Elected a Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales  -   "M.P.S."                                                                                                      My first job was as locum for Stewart F Shearman's Pharmacy in Crown St, Orange, for a fortnight followed by a fortnight as locum for Tom Hallett's Pharmacy also of Crown St, Orange.
The rest of 1952 I worked as an assistant at Frank Blomfield's Pharmacy in Keppel St, Bathurst.
1953 to 1954  Purchased Tom Hallett's Pharmacy in Crown St, Orange, and managed that for 2 years.
1954 to 1958   Attended Theological College.
1959    Worked in Pharmacies in Condobolin and Warren in the west of New South Wales
1960 to 1967  Opened and managed the Mall Pharmacy in Central Road, Unanderra, NSW.
1968 to 1972  Managed Carr's Pharmacy at Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow, NSW.
1972   On 7th February, we purchased Carr's Pharmacy.  I operated the Dispensary as 'David Coates - Chemist' and my wife Robin, operated the front of the shop as 'Robin Coates - Health & Beauty Aids'
1978  On 27th November we amalgamated with Allan's Pharmacy which was owned by Allan Kahler and  from then on we traded as Coates & Kahler - Chemists.
1998  On 28th February, we sold Coates & Kahler - Chemists to Michael Coates (my son who is also a Pharmacist) and Monir Elhage who continue to trade as Coates & Kahler - Chemists.   

                            
2003  On  15th March , my former partner Allan Walter Kahler PhC MPS passed away - not only a business partner but a close personal friend. We first met as young chemists in Wollongong in the early 1960's   and played together in the Illawarra Pharmacists Squash Club. From 1968 to 1978 we were in friendly opposition in separate Pharmacies in Fairy Meadow and then in 1978 we amalgamated our two pharmacies and worked together in a wonderful partnership that lasted 20 years.  R.I.P.

                                   
                                     OFFICIAL PHARMACY     

                                                                          
1952    Registered by the Pharmacy Board of NSW 
 Elected a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of NSW  
1959    Joined the Illawarra Pharmacists Association    
1969 to 1972  Secretary of the Illawarra Pharmacists Association
1972 to 1988   Vice President of Illawarra Pharmacists Association
1973 to 2000   Pharmacist Locum Service Director for Illawarra Pharmacists Association
 Pharmacy Staff Recruitment Director for Illawarra Pharmacists Association
1979 - 1980   Part-time Field Officer for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
2000      Life Member of the Illawarra Pharmacists Association   
2002   Life Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
2004    Australia Day - 26th January: Awarded the medal of the Order of Australia   for Service to Scouting, to Pharmacy, and to the Community

 

              

                        

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