[Published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 85, of 5th September, 1878.]

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2. The Registrar of Patents shall have the care and custody of all registers and documents in the Patent Office, and to him all notices or instruments required or authorized by the said Act or these regulations may be delivered. ......

3. The Patent Office will not correspond, and therefore all business with it must be transacted personally by the applicants or by their agents; and, upon any application or hearing, the applicant may appear personally or by agent.