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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5119, 29 April 1927, Page 4

•• An inventors’ club, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, is being formed in Auckland. The club has two main purposes—first (says the “Sun”), the putting down of “piracy” on the seas tihat inventors sail (and incidentally the protecting of its members from “sharks”), and, second, tiie guarding of the investors who are prepared to develop patents. Though it will not take over clubrooms for a month or two, the association is gathering in new members, and it is said there are no fewer than 400 inventors in Auckland. The primary qualification for membership is the invention of something which must meet witli the approval of the selection committee. It is the intention of the club to hold an exhibition at tire. Winter Show of 'members’ patents. The promoters of the movement expect that the Auckland club will be the parent of other associations in the centres of the Dominion. One interesting thing that is observed about the trend of invention in Auckland is that the nature of the article i,s frequently quite apart from the. man’s occupation. For instance, there is a doctor who' has invented a flax-stripper ; an agent for foodstuffs who has patented a hatpin ; a minister of religion who discovered a new process of photography ; a farmer who made burglarproof shop windows ; a dentist who thought out a “scutcher” for the, rope industry.