Mar. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 995

No. 22071.—S. G. Roseman and J. Lock, bunching-materials used in brush-making.
No. 22077.—T. Read, rubber heel-protector.
No. 22104.—L. O. Hooker, perch-carrier.
No. 22114.—W. G. Richardson, flax-waste as cattle-food.
No. 22120.—Cork Asphalt Limited, making blocks from plastic material. (C. M. C. Hughes, T. H. Quinlan, and R. Middleton.)
No. 22122.—C. Loomes, testing wool from centre of bale.
No. 22124.—T. Fleming and W. Lucena, clothes-line.
No. 22139.—W. F. J. Curnow, hose-coupling.
No. 22155.—United Shoe Machinery Company, assembling parts of boots or shoes. (O. Ashton.)
No. 22156.—United Shoe Machinery Company, attaching heels to boots or shoes. (J. Gouldbourn.)
No. 22166.—G. E. Humphries, scaffolding.
No. 22181.—A. Parker, ticket-issuing machine.
No. 22222.—United Shoe Machinery Company, machine for inserting fasteners. (A. Bates and H. P. Gamble.)
No. 22223.—H. S. Marks, door or gate holder.
No. 22242.—R. O. Clark, surface-glazed earthenware blocks.
No. 22243.—R. O. Clark, yard-sink.
No. 22245.—R. O. Clark, grate-fastening for drain.
No. 22411.—R. L. H. Murray, acetylene-gas-lamp generator.
No. 22480.—La Societe Anonyme Westinghouse and M. Le Blanc, jet or surface condenser.
No. 22482.—P. B. Jagger, manufacturing concrete slabs, pipes, &c.
No. 23155.—E. Ludvigsen, cash-register.
No. 23339.—International Marine Signal Company, Limited, fog-signal apparatus. (T. L. Willson.)
No. 23371.—R. L. H. Murray, acetylene-gas holder and burner.
No. 23483.—K. R. Macdonald, combination cash receipt-book.
No. 23518.—F. G. Cottrell, manufacture of sulphuric acid.
No. 23527.—G. L. Burton, acetylene-generator.
No. 23533.—W. H. J. Ridley, furnace for extracting antimony.
No. 23572.—Lamson Pneumatic Tube Company, Limited, pneumatic despatch system. (H. Burt.)
No. 23573.—L. L. J. Parant and A. P. Pichon, decolouring tobacco leaves.
No. 23599.—F. Bennitt, roasting and sintering ores. (A. S. Dwight and R. L. Lloyd.)
No. 23603.—A. A. Friestedt, metal-sheet piling.
No. 23639.—J. Searle, indicating moisture in fleece of sheep, &c.
No. 23668.—C. Gerber and E. Michaut, acetylene-generator. (P. G. Aylmer—H. R. R. Lewis.)
No. 23677.—R. M. Smith, junction chamber for drain-pipes, &c.

Letters Patent on which Fees have been paid.

[NOTE.—The dates are those of the payments.]

SECOND-TERM FEES.

No. 17633.—C. F. A., E. G., and P. P. Schaefer, stucco-ornament manufacture. (A. Lauermann.) 9th March, 1908.
No. 17687.—The Hon. C. A. Parsons, turbine. 4th March, 1908.
No. 17717.—J. F. Linke and M. S. Noack, disc plough. 4th March, 1908.
No. 17769.—The New Century Engine Company, Limited, locomotive and other engines and generators. (The New Century Engine (Foreign Patents) Company, Limited—E. Field.) 4th March, 1908.
No. 17875.—The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, electrical measuring-instrument. (J. P. Campbell—F. Conrad.) 4th March, 1908.
No. 17947.—The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, mixing-valve for explosive engine. (J. P. Campbell—L. A. Merkt.) 4th March, 1908.
No. 18015.—The British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Limited, current-collecting device for electric generator. (J. T. Hunter—K. F. Elers.) 11th March, 1908.

THIRD-TERM FEES.

No. 13471.—A. W. Maconochie, tin for preserved fruit. 5th March, 1908.
No. 13741.—G. Westinghouse, car-coupling. 11th March, 1908.

B

Subsequent Proprietors of Letters Patent registered.

[NOTE.—The name of the patentee is given in brackets; the date is that of registration.]

No. 18579.—Mauri Brothers and Thomson, Limited, a company duly incorporated in the State of New South Wales under the Companies Acts, 1899 to 1900, and having its registered office at No. 46 York Street, Sydney, in the State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia. Bottling-machine. [The Crown Corporation, Limited—S. G. Plucknett and J. F. H. Howarth.] 6th March, 1908.
No. 22316.—Johnson’s Patent Rolling Mill Company, Limited, of 7 Sanctuary House, Tothill Street, in the City of Westminster, England. Machinery for corrugating metal sheets. [G. B. Johnson.] 6th March, 1908.

Notice of Request to amend Specification.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th March, 1908.

A REQUEST for leave to amend the specification relating to the undermentioned application 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 amendments. Such notice must set forth the particular grounds of objection and be in duplicate. A fee of 10s. is payable thereon.

No. 21867.—B. Crawford and H. A. Tattersall, hot-water system. (Advertised in Supplement to New Zealand Gazette, No. 99, of the 29th November, 1906.)

The nature of the proposed amendment is as follows:—
(1.) To omit the words “looping,” line 20, page 2, and to insert the words “being carried or fitted” after the word “pipe,” line 20, page 2.
(2.) To insert the words “with or without a loop” after the word “pipes,” line 23, page 2.
(3.) To omit the words “comprised in the loop,” line 25, page 2, and to insert instead the words “thus fitted.”
(4.) To omit the words “and formed into loop 13,” line 14, page 3.
(5.) To insert the words “and may be given a loop formation” after the word “range,” line 15, page 3, and the word “it” before the words “the pipe,” line 15, page 3.
(6.) To omit the words “and if necessary forming,” and insert instead the words “with or without,” lines 3 and 4 of claim 1.

The proprietor (B. Crawford) states, “The reason for amendment is so as to more clearly indicate the character of the invention.”

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Application for Letters Patent opposed.

NOTICE of opposition has been entered in the following case:—

No. 22747.—Hale: Opposed by the Humphries Scaffold Bracket Company.

Applications for Letters Patent abandoned.

LIST of applications, with which provisional specifications only have been filed, abandoned (i.e., complete specifications not lodged) from the 5th to the 18th March, 1908, inclusive:—

No. 22780.—F. A. Vaughan, F. McLeod, and P. McArdle, electric-car brake.
No. 22782.—E. A. Dahl, rendering fabrics waterproof.
No. 22788.—E. J. Keogh, air-exhauster. (F. J. Corbett.)
No. 22789.—H. Wriedt, measuring substances automatically.
No. 22790.—S. Martin, fire-lighter.
No. 22795.—D. A. Stewart, cup and saucer.
No. 22796.—E. Girdler, flax-stripper drive.
No. 22797.—C. Bristow, milking-machine.
No. 22804.—C. Bristow, seed-sower.
No. 22805.—G. Henderson, boot.
No. 22806.—S. Docherty, swingletree.
No. 22807.—O. T. Madeley, horse-controller.
No. 22808.—O. T. Madeley, mail-bag fastener.
No. 22813.—J. Holland, rabbit-trap.
No. 22816.—J. A. Wilson and D. Sullivan, emergency brake.