from Evening Post 11 October 1904

COLONIAL INVENTIONS
... Applications for Letters Patent, with provisional specificatoins, have been accepted as unders:

• Donald Willian BODLE of Manurewa, Auckland
- an improved clip for holding papers and the like

• Charles Daniel BRENT of Cromwell, Central Otago
- improvements in cylces

• Arthur Albert BUSHELL of Perth, Western Australia
- folding stand for usable attachment with bicycles

• Frank CASEY of Melbourne
- improvements in pump or suction dredging machinery

• Alfred CLARK of Melbourne
- improvements in apparatus for recovering gold and other metals from slimes, tailings, and alluvial wash

• John CLAUSSEN of Weraroa, Levin
- means for indicating the espiration of certain predetermined periods of time, the same being particularly applicable for use in cooking eggs

• Edward Patman COULTER of Sydney
- improved method of saving carbonic-acid gas in the manufacture of aerated waters, and appliances for same

• Richard COSSLETT of Ponsonby, Auckland
- improvements in twist moulding machines

• A. C. DENNES of Auckland
- means for use in automatically supplying needles to gramophone sound-boxes

• John FAIRWEATHER &
• William FAIRWEATHER snr &
• William FAIRWEATHER jnr of Blenheim
- improvements in, or relating to, flax-strippers

• Henry Claylands FIELD of Aramoho, Wellington
- the manufacture of a fire and easrthquake resisting building material of gravel or broken stone in the manufacture of conrete for building purposes

• Thomas FRENCH of Leonora (Western Australia)
- improved ratchet for ore-feeders

• James GRAY of Dunedin
- improved fertiliser-conductor for fertiliser-drills

• Edward Ernest HANNAFORD of Dunedin
- an improvement relating to locks of doors and like

• James HOLMS jnr of Waimakaka, Southland
- clasp for spreaders on traces or chains

• Edward West HUBBARD of Melbourne
- improvements in pump or suction dredging machinery

• Archibald George LAND of Christchurch
- an improved adjustable seat for vehicles

• Richard Neville Reid LINDSAY of Auckland
- an improved aplliance for use in dehorning cattle and for other analogous operations

• Oswald Thomas MADELEY of Corindhap, Grenville, Victoria
- an appliance for gathering delicate fruit without injury thereto

• Richard Francis MARSH of East Maitland (N.S.W.)
- an improved washing machine

• Harold MARTIN of Auckland
- means for use in automatically supplying needles to gramophone sound-boxes

• Mrs Alice Mary McDONALD of Wellington
- a cabinet for preserving eggs in, by vapour

• Peter McIIVRIDE of Wanganui
- an improved nose-bag

• Richard Brabazon MORRIS of Christchurch
- fastener for lid of basket

• Ernest MOSS of Christchurch
- fastener for lid of basket

• Luke Nelson NATTRASS of Lower Hutt
- an improved churn

• James William PERRY of Christchurch
- improvements in bicycles

• Walter William PILKINGTON of Wellington
- an improved churn

• William QUIN of Wellington
- combined receipt and cheque form

• Matthew RYAN of Greymouth
- a gold-saving apparatus

• Mrs Emily SCHULZE of Auckland
- an improved catamenial appliance

• John STORER of Melbourne
- improvements in apparatus for recovering gold and other metals from slimes, tailings, and alluvial wash

• Edward TAYLOR of Brisbane, Queensland
- means of operating, controlling and (or) determining the amount of liquid to be withdrawn form a vessel by a siphon

• John THEOBALD of Eltham
- an improved shaft-tug for harness

• Benjamin TREWHELLA &
• William TREWHELLA of Trentham, Victoria
- improved lever jack specially useful for clearing land; same, improved pawl and ratchet mechanism


PHOTO
the Butter Church may have existed as early as the 6th century AD