THE DUTIES OF A PATENT AGENT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 5

THE DUTIES OF A PATENT AGENT.

■_ The duties of a patent agent are to draw out complete and faultless specifications describing the invention, and ™xt PreParo accurate drawings. HENRY HUGHES, Patent Agent, 157, Featherston Street, Wellington,' transacts the major portion of the New Zealand patent business. His free book "Advice to Inventors" will be found most useful. Write for it.

Mr Gavin Allen, secretary of the Hawke's Bay Freezers' Workers' Union, interviewed by a Napier Daily lelegraph representative with reference to the demand of the Wellington slaughtermen for an increase in the killing rates, said that the slaughtermen in his district were up" to the present unaffected by the agitation. The present rate of pay is 23s per ', 100, and, although the season thereextends from October to- August,, the?., busy period only commences after Christmas and lasts for five months. In Canterbury, however, the season commences early in the .winter, when the turnip sheep came in. Mr Allen declined to say anything further ex— cept that, although his union was independent of the southern body, he believed that any authoritative action m Wellington would be followed by the slaughtermen throughout New Zealand falling into line. The slaughtermen connected with the abattoirs were, of course, not affected by the situation, which only concerned the slaughter of freezers, and did not affect even the killing of 'potters."