GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVENTORS.
The field of invention is a wide one, and the man who can think out and develop some useful article will be richly rewarded. Full partiqulars concerning Patents and how to protect them are contained m our booklet, "Advice to Inventors," Send for a copy from Henry Hughes, Ltd., Patent Attorneys. 157 Featherston St., Wellington: or F. 11. Ball, Peel St.. Gisborne.— 4. j | The Victerian Government has appointjed Mr Harrold W. Clapp, at present vicepresident of the St. Louis Railway Company, Ohio, U.S.A., to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Victorian Railways, at a salary of £5000 a year, the appointment being for five years. The present chief commissioner will shortly retire. Applications were invited m Australia and abroad, over 100 being received from Britain and the United States. Mr Clapp was born m Melbourne, and is 44 years of age. He was for five years on the engineering staff of the Brisbane tramways, and then went to America. For several years he was on the staff of the General Bleotrical Company, and subsequently employed as an eleotrical engineer by two railway companies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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189GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVENTORS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15222, 21 May 1920, Page 7
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