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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13846, 6 March 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOME SUCCESSFUL PATENTS. . Once a patent takes on, it begins to pay and the patentee's income is then insured. A man obtained a patent in the United States for a slight improvement in' oh aft cutters, and alter eight months sold it lor .£'Booo. -Another inventor obtained a patent to thresh and clean grain and sold it in fifteen months for £12,000, while a third had a patent monopoly in a special printer's ink and finally sold it for £12,000. These are ordinary cases of minor inventions involving no great inventive powers, and of which hundreds go out of the patent office every year.

New Zealand inventions can likewise be placed in the same succesfnl list, and among his clients Henry Hughes lias many such, who are, he is happy to .say, doing well. If you have invented anything that fills a want,: or replaces any loss efficient contrivance, obtain expert information and patent it. For this purpose the office of Henry Hughes (A. R. Holdship, manager), 183 Hereford Street, Christcliurch, •is fully equipped for advising the inventor on the spot. J. E. S. Jackson, Stafford Street, Timaru agent for Henry Hughes. ...

Turpentine in,Washing.—A tablespoonful • : of. iturpentine put into the copper when boiling white clothes will aid the .whitening 'powers considerably. il is not enough to have good clothes; you must wear them well. Iu other words, vow must use aP. R. Corset. Of all models, the P.D., is the most- delightful. It confers that suggestion of rare distinction which marks the gentlewoman. It gives to an effective costume tlie necessary note of personal quality, the indefinable grace -of style. Wear no other. All stores sell it,