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Classifying Trade Marks. The work of classifying and reindexing trade marks has been proceeded with during the year as opportunity offered, and with the extra assistance that has been afforded the office for the purpose I trust to have some of the classes completed and available to the public during the present year. GENERAL. Premises. The office removed in November last into rooms on the first floor of the recently erected Magistrate's Court building. These rooms are convenient to the public, and generally much better suited for the business of the office than those it has vacated. Patent Agents. During the year two names were added to the Register, bringing the number of registered patent agents up to 54. These gentlemen now transact a large amount of business, affording efficient assistance to inventors as well as facilitating the work of the office.

The Appendix hereto contains the following tables : — PAGE A. Balance-sheet of Income and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1903 ... ... ... ... ... ... v B. Table showing Revenue and Expenditure for each of the Last Eight Years ... ... ... ... ... ... ... v C. Particulars of Fees received from the Ist January to the 31st December. 1903 ... ... ... ... ... ... vi D. Staff of Officers, and Salaries ... ... ... ... ... vi E. Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Registration of Designs and Trade-marks, recorded for the Years 1890 to 1903 inclusive ... vii F. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c, under Act of 1889 ... ... .. ... ... ... vii G. Table showing, over a series of years, the Number of Patents that were considered of sufficient value to be kept alive by Payment of the Renewal Fees ... ... ... ... ... viii H. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1901, 1902, and 1903 ... ... ... ... ... viii I. Table showing number of applications for the different classes of inventions for each of the years 1901, 1902, and 1903... ... ix la. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1901, 1902, and 1903 ... ... ... ... x Ib. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks, in the fifty different classes, in each of the Years 1901, 1902 and 1903 ... ... x J. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Patents, — For quarter ending 31st March, 1903 ... ... ... 1 30th June, „ ... ... ... 23 30th September, „ ... ... ... 48 „ 31st December, „ ... ... ... 73 K. Alphabetical List of Titles of Inventions for which Letters Patent have been applied, — For quarter ending 31st March, 1903 ... ... ... 9 30th June, „ ... ... ... 33 30th September, „ ... ... ... 58 „ 31st December, „ ... ... ... 82 L. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Registration of Designs, — For quarter ending 31st March, 1903 ... ... ... 21 „ 30th June, „ ... ... ... 45 30th September, „ ... ... ... 70 „ 31st December, „ ... ... ... 92 M. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Registration of Trade-marks, — For quarter ending 31st March, 1903 ... ... ... 21 30th June, „ ... ... ... 45 „ 30th September, „ ... ... ... 71 „ 31st December, „ ... ... ... 93 Patent Office, F. Waldegrave, Wellington, 30th July, 1904. Registrar.