1950
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

Particulars of the Convention and of such arrangements may be seen in the following Gazettes :—

Notification of adhesion of New Zealand to the Convention, with text thereof (in English), in the Gazette of 26th November, 1891; notification of adherence of New Zealand to the Additional Act of the Convention, in Patents Supplement to Gazette, No. 101, of the 16th November, 1905; Order in Council applying section 108 of the Imperial Act to New Zealand, in Gazette No. 27, of the 15th May, 1890; Orders in Council containing arrangements between Australia and New Zealand, in Patent Supplements to the Gazette, Nos. 22, of the 9th March, 1905, and 38. of the 20th April, 1905.

Arbor Day.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th May, 1912.

WEDNESDAY, the 17th day of July next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion for the celebration of Arbor Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of various municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will place the matter prominently before the people of the Dominion, and do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves and other available lands, both public and private, with trees suited to the locality.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Patent Office Notices.

THE Special Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette for notices concerning Patents and Trade-marks will be discontinued, and all such notices after the 1st July next will appear in a publication entitled the “Patent Office Journal,” obtainable from the GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, on payment of 6d. a copy (posted 6½d.), or an annual subscription of 10s. 6d. (including postage).

Patent Office Agent appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th June, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM WALTERS SAMSON

to be Patent Office Agent at Christchurch, as from the 4th June, 1912.

J. A. HANAN.

Specification open to Public Inspection before Acceptance.

(In accordance with the arrangements made between Australia and New Zealand.)

[The specification may be inspected at the Patent Office, Wellington, on payment of a search fee of 1s. per hour.]

(NOTE.—The date given is the prior date applied for.)

NO. 31321.—8th June, 1911.—B. J. Egan, vehicle-body, cycle-saddle, &c., suspension-device.

Regulations under the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, relating to Patents.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE GEO. LAURENSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911 (hereinafter in these regulations referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act, in so far as it relates to patents; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In these regulations—

“United Kingdom” includes the Isle of Man:

“Foreign application” means an application by any person for protection of his invention in the United Kingdom, or in any foreign State to which section 91 of the Imperial Patents and Designs Act, 1907, is for the time being applicable, or in any country (whether a foreign State or a British possession) to which section 129 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, is for the time being applicable:

“Convention application” means an application in New Zealand under section 129 of the said Act:

“Agent” means an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Registrar:

“Office” means the Patent Office:

“Journal” means the Patent Office Journal.

FEES.

2. The fees to be paid under the said Act, so far as it relates to patents, shall be those specified in the list of fees in the First Schedule to these regulations: Provided that the fees payable on the filing of complete specifications in respect of, or on the sealing or renewal of, patents for which application has been made before the commencement of these regulations shall be determined in accordance with the scale of fees in force at the date of such application, and not in accordance with the scale set forth in the said First Schedule.

All fees must be paid in advance, in stamps, which must be affixed uncancelled or undefaced in any way to the documents (if any) in respect of which the fees are payable. The Registrar may give notice of any fee becoming due, but no liability shall be incurred by him if he fails to do so, or if for any reason the notice, if given, is incorrect in any particular or fails to reach the agent, the applicant, or the patentee. A certificate