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No. 23998.—R. A. Walker, cultivating implement fore-carriage.
No. 24000.—A. Ashcroft, treating kauri-gum.
No. 24001.—H. W. Sherlock, boot-last.
No. 24002.—W. J. Le Cren and J. B. Laurenson, snow-board.
No. 24006.—A. J. Hoban, vehicle-brake.
No. 24008.—D. M. Wallace, swingletree-end.
No. 24009.—G. Hutchinson, seed-sower.
No. 24010.—W. Beamish, animal-trap.
No. 24017.—H. A. Fry, acetylene-generator.
No. 24018.—A. N. E. Burton, bread-manufacture.
No. 24019.—W. H. Duncan, water-heater.
No. 24023.—J. E. Friend, turbine.
No. 24026.—C. F. Gardner, oil, &c., tank filler.
No. 24027.—A. J. Madden, applying pressure to liquids.
No. 24031.—W. Tyree, pest-destroyer.

Applications for Letters Patent void.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent, with which complete specifications have been lodged, void owing to non-acceptance of such complete specifications, from the 8th to the 21st December, 1908, inclusive :—
No. 23326.—J. Johnson, extension-boot.
No. 23364.—L. H. Rogers and A. Myers, puncture-sealing composition.
No. 23406.—J. C. Drewet, hydro-extractor.
No. 23437.—A. H. and D. J. Byron and T. M. Scott, carding-apparatus.

Applications for Letters Patent lapsed.

APPLICATIONS for Letters Patent lapsed, owing to Letters Patent not being sealed, from the 8th to the 21st December, 1908, inclusive :—
No. 22710.—J. G. Hudson, railway signalling.
No. 22983.—F. Hutton, knife-cleaner.
No. 22990.—G. G. Holmes, securing ends of fencing-wire.
No. 22992.—G. J. Clegg, saddle-cover.
No. 23004.—B. Locking, gas-generator.
No. 23018.—A. P. F. and G. D. Watson, boot-scraper.
No. 23019.—A. P. F. and G. D. Watson, gravel-screen.
No. 23030.—A. Storrie, seed-sower.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1908.

A REQUEST for leave to amend the specification and drawings relating to the undermentioned application for Letters Patent has been received, and is open to public inspection at this office. Any person may at any time from one month from the date of this Gazette give me notice in writing of opposition to the amendment. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 23556.—Louis Alfred Hume Longuet, of Epsom, near the City of Auckland and Dominion of New Zealand, Produce Broker. An improved trousers-stretcher. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 98, of 14th November, 1907.)

The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows :—
To insert in the application, authorisation, and specification, after the name, address, and occupation of the aforementioned Louis Alfred Hume Longuet, the name, address, and occupation of “John Henry Hopkins, of Auckland aforesaid, Produce Broker.”

The applicants state :—
“The reason for amendment is so as to include the name of John Henry Hopkins in the Letters Patent to be granted, as the said John Henry Hopkins has an interest in the Letters Patent, and is in partnership with the said Louis Alfred Hume Longuet. At the time of application Mr. Hopkins’s name was overlooked.”

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Letters Patent void.

LIST of Letters Patent void through non-payment of renewal fees, and through expiry of term of fourteen years, from the 8th to the 21st December, 1908, inclusive :—

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF SECOND-TERM FEES.
No. 18430.—J. Taylor, washboard.
No. 18441.—A. O. and W. J. Grundy, clinch.
No. 18450.—M. Torrente, separating solids from liquid.

No. 18451.—O. T. Madeley, fruit-gatherer.
No. 18456.—Christchurch Meat Company, Limited, securing covers of tins. (G. Anderson.)
No. 18458.—F. Theobald, shaft-tug.
No. 18462.—F. J. Shelton, acetylene-generator.
No. 18465.—A. G. Land, vehicle-seat.
No. 18467.—L. Bender, butter-cutter.
No. 18490.—J. H. A. McPhee, ore-reducing apparatus.
No. 20036.—J. R. Hatmaker, milk food.
No. 20037.—J. R. Hatmaker, milk food.

THROUGH NON-PAYMENT OF THIRD-TERM FEES.
No. 13992.—General Cement Company, Limited, cement. (H. Passow.)
No. 14010.—R. Keyte, fire-escape.
No. 14011.—The Crown Cork Company, Limited, closures for bottles. (R. L. Patterson.)
No. 14034.—H. Cameron, J. Galt, and J. Taylor, flax-scotcher. (J. Taylor and A. Reeves.)

THROUGH EXPIRY OF TERM.
No. 7326.—The New Calyx Drill and Boring Company, Limited, core-boring apparatus. (F. H. Davis.)
No. 7328.—H. L. Sulman and F. L. Teed, metal-extraction.
No. 7343.—West’s Patent Tire-setter Company, Limited, machine for setting tires. (J. B. West.)
No. 7346.—Massey-Harris Company, Limited, cultivator. (P. and D. Duncan.)

Design expired.

THE copyright in the following design has expired :—
No. 197.—The Brett Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, Auckland, New Zealand. (Letter-card.)

Applications for Registration of Trade Marks.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1908.

APPLICATIONS for registration of the following Trade Marks have been received. Notice of opposition to the registration of any of these applications may be lodged at this office within two months of the date of this Gazette. Such notice must be in duplicate, and accompanied by a fee of £1.

No. of application : 7314.
Date : 11th May, 1908.

TRADE MARK.

![Trade Mark Image: A spool of canvas belt with text "GUTTA PERCHA" and "CANVAS BELTING" wrapped around it.]

The essential particular of this trade mark is the device; and any right to the exclusive use of the added matter is disclaimed.

The applicants claim that the said trade mark has been in use by them and their predecessors in business since 10th February, 1888.

NAME.
R. AND J. DICK, LIMITED, of Greenhead, in the County and City of Glasgow, Scotland, Manufacturers.

No. of class : 40.
Description of goods : Machinery-driving belts composed of balata and canvas,