MASTER BUILDERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 7

MASTER BUILDERS.

The annual meeting of the Wellington Master Builders' Association was held this week. Mr. W. H. Bennett, president, was Id the chair. The leport laij before the meeting statsd that tho presens membership was 94. The officers of the Wellington Association had been elected the executive of the New Zealand Master Builders' Federation. Good work had beep done during tho year. The general conditions of contract agreed upon between the builders and architects at Timaru iv 1905 had clearly denned the conditions of concracts, ani the position was much more satisfactory. Eegret ■ was expressed at the death of Mr. Thomas Tumbull, architect. Officers were elected as follows :- -President, Mr. W. H- Bennett (re-elected) ; vicepresident, Mr. D,. M'Lean; secretary, Mr. W. E. Grenfell (re-elected) ; treasurer, Mr. W. G. Emeny; committee, Messrs. W. L. Thompson, H. D. James, and J. Trevor ; auditors, Messrs. J. Nicholson and Harbottle ; delegates to the New Zealand Federation, Messrs D. M'Lean, W. L. Thompson, and J. Kussell. Henry Hughe3, patent and trade marks agent, reports the following list of patent applications in New Zealand, compiled from the official records for the week ending 25th inst. :— C. Giorgi, Palmerston North, mail bag and basket lock; J. R. Brown, Los Angeles, U.S.A., lining for grinding mill; U.S. Automatic Box Machinery Co., Boston, U.S.A., paper box making machine; S. G. Kossman, Auckland, sweeping brush or broom ; Tripgs and Denton, Christchurch, preventing horses from galloping; T. R. Bond, Wanganui, hoc; P. Rafferty, Wellington, trolly head attachment; W. S. Clark, Melbourne, fire kindlerj VV. G. Landells and H. Jluekson, Coburg and Pakenham, soldering bolt and blow lamp ; A. P. Bond, Auckland, spark ariester ; C. C. Wakefield, London, gas burner'; W. Wakerden, Marrickville, boot or shoe ; D. Brisbane, Ardmore, form of power ; \V. E. Chamberlain, Feilding, washer; A. R. Wilfley, Denver, U.S.A., ore roasting process ; C. P. Stewart, Los Angeles, U.S.A., making sugar; American Cork and Seal Co., New York, bottle seal ; B. Ward, Auckland, fastening ends of fencing wire ; A. G. Jackson, Brisbane, mechanism for clocks ; C. Loomes, Wellingion, apparatus for selling stamp.'; ; Bissel and Hennah, Wellington, indicating course of vessel ; T. J. M'Bride, Chnstchurch. resilent wheel for vehicles ; ' G. ( Westinjfhouse, Pittsburg, U.S.A., yielding resistance mechanism; A. ttavelli, Arenzano, Italy, movement of sea waves; 11. Corbett, S. Yarra, Vie, manure; H. Corbett, S. Yarra, Vie. food for stock; It. W. Kemp, Durham Ox., Vie, subsoil cultivator for attachment to ploughs ; P. G. CotIrell, Berkeley, U.S.A., sulphride acid; B. MiUis, Dunedin, preparing fibre from phormium topaz.— Advt,.