James born to dispense good advice.
BY the tender age of 14, James Jnr knew he was destined to join the family firm. He started out modestly by delivering medicines and washing bottles. (Those were days when medicines were mixed at the pharmacy and decanted into bottles. A dumb waiter pulley system lowered them from the upstairs dispensary to the ground floor.) It was an early initiation, but the young James loved it. In 1966 he completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy at the University of Queensland, and took the pharmaceutical oath at the age of 21. After traineeships at the Mater Public
Hospital Pharmacy Henry Evans Chemist in Roma St and a three-month contract as a locum in New Guinea, his father Jas employed him as a pharmacist.

Jas was a partner in the T&G Day & Night Pharmacy and it was Jas was a partner in the T&G Day & Night Pharmacy and it was while working there that James Jnr met his future wife, pharmacist Carmel, at a staff Christmas party where, the story goes, he impressed her with his dancing skills.

The couple married in 1978 and have four children – Daniel, Brendan, Bridget and Seamus – all of whom are universityeducated and have entered the business worlds of commerce, real estate, and pharmacy in Bridget’s case, giving the family three generations of pharmacists and future succession planning.

James Jnr is presently on the Advisory Board of Pharmacy at QUT and a Member of the Australian College of Natural Medicine Council. He is also a Member of the Pharmaceutical Association and the Pharmacy Guild, and a Fellow of the Australian College of Pharmacy Practice Management and of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Good service no doubt makes a business, but also contributing to the success is James’s own glowing reputation. He is well-known as a professional businessman and community-minded resident and has friends from many walks of life.