AN UNFAIR INFRINGEMENT. INTERVIEW WITH MR POND. Auckland, October 22.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 415, 30 October 1889, Page 6

AN UNFAIR INFRINGEMENT. INTERVIEW WITH MR POND. Auckland, October 22.

With reference to the foregoing cablegram, a Star representative called this morning upon Mr J. A. Pond, the patentee of the enamelled butter box referred to. On being asked if he could explain in any way the extraordinary announcement conveyed in the cable message, Mr Pond replied that he was as much surprised as anyone on reading it. What, asked the reporter, does Mr Dow mean by saying that his department had been unable to obtain the right to the use of Pond's boxes 1 I know no more than you do, replied Mr Pond. I have never had any application on the subject from the Victorian Gorernment, and therefore could not have rejected any. Besides, is it likely that I should decline legitimate business if it w.ere offered ? Reporter : No, that is not the, sort of I man you are, I should say. Ie the patent fully protected in Victoria ? Mr Pond : Yes, fully protected, the renewal of the patent having been obtained only a few days ago. Reporter : But Mr Dow can't violate in this way the patent rights granted you by his own Government? Mr Pond : But they are doing it. I learn that the component parts of the enamel have been ascertained by analysis, and that they are now starting to make enamelled packages in imitation of our own. I believe by the terms of the patent granted the Government reserve some risjht by which they can under certain circumstances work a patent themselves. But no honourable government would do such a thing without makintj liberal terms with the patentee, or at least entering into some sort of arrangement with him ; whereas in this case I have had no intimation from the Victorian Government whatever of their intention as an nounced in the cablegram. Reporter : Why can't th ey import the boxes if they want them ? t Mr Pond : Simply because, they object to paying the duty they are subject to under the Victorian Customs tariff. I was willing to supply the boxes and to pay the duty on them provided the Governnu jnt would allow a drawback of the duty paid when the boxes were exported from ', Victoria filled with butter, but this suggestion they rejected. | Reporter : What do you tl bink has caused Mr Dow to take the actio a he is reported to have done ' I Mr Pond : I cannot sa>i r . I may mention that we made sonjae small twopound boxes specially for the Melbourne Exhibition, whe re they were so greatly admired bj ' Mr Wilson, the Victorian Government Superintendent of Dairies, that I made him a present of the lot, about 150, and afterwe jirds an attempt was aotually made to ma j,ke me pay duty on this present I had ma ( ,de to a Government official for public purposes. The Agricultural Departmen c wrote inquiring whether we could supply a lot of these two - pound boxes to them, and I replied wit h regret thab we could not, as they were onl y a fancy exhibit in that size, and we had nt »t the timber cub of the requisite sizes for th ese small boxes. '.Chis is the only thing tl lab can by any possibility be twisted into i i difficulty about obtaining the butter boxt »s. The regular fii'ty-six pounds size they can procure at any time in due course b y ordering them like other people. Reporter : Well, perhap 3 after all ifc won't do ;your business any ham 1 to have such a strong testimonial to th< 3 value of your boxjas as this derive to pira te the patent implies. MLr Pond : Oh, as to i ( hat, they apparently admire the invention only too much to resisD the temptation to ut ilise it regardless of this interests of the pat< mi tees. Mr Wm. Brown, Principal of one of the Victorian experimental farms, spea ks, in a recent publication ot his on do irv science and practice, in the highest t. arms of the excellence of the butter packaj je. Reporter : About how 1 many orders hare you received for this seasc m from the other side? Mr Pond : About 14,8( )0 for New South Wales, where a powerfu tl syndicate has been formed to establish a big export butter trade with Great Britah 1. And, by-the-bye, this same syndicate r iave secured practically all the cool c. irrying' capacity available for butter from these colonies for next season — a serious matter for New Zealand butter exporters to consider.

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