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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 7

Messrs Baldwin and Ray ward, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, report that amongst the many applications for patents that have recently been filed are:—C. A. B. P. Hawkins, Napier, carburetter and silencer combined; G. A. Read, eowbail; H. Dalton, Christchurch, boot and shoe manufacture; R. M. Watson, Roslvn, ship’s propellor; M. A. Mcßae, AVyndham, fencing wire knotting tool.*

A curious story is told of’how one of Quec-n Victoria’s smallest gold spoons was lost and found. A lady attended a State ball in a dress the skirt of which was arranged in perpendicular pleats in front, stitched across at intervals, and, unknown to her, a gold teaspoon got lodged at supper in one of these receptacles. Of course there was one missing after the ball, and it caused great perturbation to the official in charge. The next spring the same lady went to a draw-ing-room in the identical dress she had worn at the State ball, and as she bent low before her Alajesty the pleats of her skirt expanded and the gold spoon fell at the Queen’s feet!