HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
JAMES CROUCH TAYLOR, Esq., J.P.,
of Waipawa, to be a Coroner for the Colony of New Zealand.
JAS. McGOWAN.
Coroner appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th October, 1905.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint
ALEXANDER TODD McCaw
to be a cadet in the Valuation Department, as from the 12th day of June, 1905.
C. H. MILLS,
Minister in Charge.
Cadet appointed.
Valuation Department,
Wellington, 30th October, 1905.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 15 of 'The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,' the services of the
Kaikoura Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Kaikoura, Marlborough. Acceptance to date from 9th October, 1905.
ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.
Services of Defence Rifle Club accepted.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1905.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 15, 'The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,' the services of the
Tory Channel Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Te Awaite, Picton, Marlborough. Acceptance to date from 12th October, 1905.
ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.
Services of Defence Rifle Club accepted.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1905.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 15, 'The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,' the services of the
Kyle Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Kyle, Canterbury. Acceptance to date from 14th October, 1905.
ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.
Services of Defence Rifle Club accepted.
Defence Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1905.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under 'The Defence Act, 1886,' 'The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,' and regulations thereunder, of the appointment of
Lieutenant-Colonel ARTHUR BAUCHOP, C.M.G., New Zealand Militia, Officer Commanding Canterbury District;
Lieutenant-Colonel KENNETH MACKENZIE, South Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers; and
Captain JOHN R. MONTGOMERY, Geraldine Rifle Volunteers,
as Trustees of the Geraldine Rifle Range Reserve, being all that portion of Suburban Section No. 10 of the Township of Geraldine, in the Canterbury Land District, contained between its south-western boundary and a line parallel to and 4 chains distant therefrom, and containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 5 perches, more or less.
Appointments to date from 19th October, 1905.
ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.
Appointment of Trustees, Geraldine Rifle Range Reserve.
Despatch.-Industrial Property Convention - Accession of New Zealand to Additional Act, and Accession of Germany.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th October, 1905.
THE following despatch, with enclosures, from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies is published for general information.
JAMES McGOWAN.
(New Zealand.-General.)
Downing Street, 31st August, 1905.
MY LORD,-With reference to my despatch, General, of the 27th May, 1903, and to Lord Ranfurly's despatch, No. 87, of the 2nd September, 1903, I have the honour to state for the information of your Ministers that the Swiss Government was duly notified of the accession of New Zealand to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as modified by the additional Act of Brussels of December, 1900, and I have now the honour to transmit lists of the countries which are parties to the convention and additional Act.
2. I transmitted to you in my despatch, General, of the 29th March last, documents relative to the adhesion of Japan, Cuba, and Mexico, and I have to express my regret that a copy of the Order of the King in Council, dated 9th October, 1903, giving effect in this country to the accession of Germany to the Convention, &c., was not included. A copy is herewith enclosed.
I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
Governor the Right Honourable Lord Plunket,
K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., &c.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1903, No. 867.-PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS.-INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS.-GERMANY.
ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the Provisions of the Patents, &c., Act to Germany.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of October, 1903.
Present:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section 103 of 'The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1883,' as amended by section 6 of 'The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks (Amendment) Act, 1885,' it is enacted as follows : (1.) If Her Majesty is pleased to make any arrangement with the Government or Governments of any foreign State or States for mutual protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, then any person who has applied for protection for any invention, design, or trade-mark in any such State shall be entitled to a patent for his invention, or to registration of his design or trade-mark (as the case may be) under this Act, in priority to other applicants ; and such patent or registration shall have the same date as the date of the application in such foreign State. Provided that this application is made, in the case of a patent, within seven months, and, in the case of a design or trade-mark, within four months, from his applying for protection in the foreign State with which the arrangement is in force. Provided that nothing in this section contained shall entitle the patentee or proprietor of the design or trade-mark to recover damages for infringements happening prior to the date of the actual acceptance of his complete specification, or the actual registration of his design or trade-mark, in this country, as the case may be. (2.) The publication in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man during the respective periods aforesaid of any description of the invention, or the use therein during such periods of the invention, or the exhibition or use therein during such periods of the design, or the publication therein during such periods of a description or representation of the design, or the use therein during such periods of the trade-mark, shall not invalidate the patent which may be granted for the invention, or the registration of the design or trade-mark. (3.) The application for the grant of a patent, or the registration of a design, or the registration of a trade-mark, under this section must be made in the same manner as an ordinary application under this Act ; provided that, in the case of trade-marks, any trade-mark the registration of which has been duly applied for in the country of origin may be registered under this Act. (4.) The provisions of this section shall apply only in the case of those foreign states with respect to which Her Majesty shall from time to time by Order in Council declare them to be applicable, and so long only in the case of each state as the Order in Council shall continue in force with respect to that State: