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H.—Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1905, 1906, and 1907.

I.—Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1905, 1906, and 1907.

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1905. 1906. 1907. 1905. 1906. , 1907. New Zealand Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Cape Colony Costa Rica Denmark Ecuador Finland Prance Germany Holland Hungary India .. Italy .. Japan .. Mexico.. Natal .. 1,042 3 1 1 11 1 1 1 1,101 4 1 12 1 969 2 1 18 1 New South Wales Norway Queensland Rhodesia Russia.. South Africa South Australia Spain Sweden Switzerland Tasmania Transvaal Tunis United Kingdom United States .. Victoria Western Australia 88 18 "5 90 92 1 36 19 1 3 3 2 1 11 17 1 9 9 'fa 6 6 i 8 "3 1 io 12 1 12 6 1 102 109 143 15 17 15 ii 10 "4 2 8 15 3 1 1 2 1 119 133 92 113 187 180 22 7 "l 1 "3 1 1 2 Notk.—A few applications were received fro iotftl more than the actual number of application om joint ne receivi t applicants resident in different countries; the figures will, then-fore red.

Class. 1905. 1906. 1907. Class. 1905. 1906. l<07. Advertising Amusements Attaching and seouring Boilers (steam) Boots and shoes.. Bottles Boxes, cans, and casks Brewing, distilling, &c. Brooms and brushes Building , (bricks and cement) , (windows and doors) Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-feed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing and tools Dairying Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating Drying Electricity and magnetism Engines (air, gas, and oil) (steam) (miscellaneous and engineaccessories) Explosives, firearms, and targets .. Exterminating Fencing.. , (strainers) Fibre-dressing Filters .. Fire alarms, escapes, and extinguishers Food Furnaces and kilns Furniture and upholstery Gas-manufacture Harness (including horse, &c., covers) Harvesting Heating Illuminating 10 17 25 14 42 28 80 8 46 '24 3 50 81 89 8 23 1O s 62 19 ! 29 1 13 j 53 I 22 19 6 17 7 4 14 18 j 39 77 12 16 8 is : 22 21 34 j Indicating, calculating, and measuring Kauri-gum Kitchen utensils and cooking appliances Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges Marine and submarine Marking Medicines and surgical appliances .. Metal-work ing Minerals (magnetic separators) (stampers and pulverisers) Oils and lubrioators Paints and painting Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers Racecourse accessories Railways and tramways Roads and ways .. Seed-dressing, chaff - cutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper Telephony and telegraphy Tobacco.. Valves and cocks.. Vehicles (velocipedes) Ventilating Washing and oleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides Miscellaneous 89 3 40 II 3 68 01 7 33 L8 14 12 39 3 IK 8 8 9 80 53 51 5 22 11 11 IS 25 22 Lβ U Lβ 19 3 17 18 2 9 34 68 66 Lβ 21 8 ■27 38 87 Lβ 32 20 27 14 17 13 56 4 8 9 6 10 11 2 15 18 5 54 5 17 88 25 17 14 Lβ 6 69 1 12 6 7 2(1 15 3 21 38 4 70 11 7 20 22 10 13 17 13 12 2 7 3 3 14 5 5 23 14 8 73 8 10 10 Sβ 11 8 89 4 10 10 •21 80 12 37 0 21 12 23 42 11 44 17 13 6 20 0 'J 43 11 'J 20 47 44 9 28 17 43 7 12 L8 4 27 6 27 :!U Lβ II L9 38 12 0 21 4 89 3 17 18 10 33 7 14 21) 10 7 6 10 00 e 14 4 31 10 6 !H 2:! 89 24 89 11 21 28 ■1 38 19 ■20 41 It 87 38 13 21 34 : 26 22 18 25 32 i Note.—Owing to some inventions bei dual number of applications received. ing ■■Inled under more tlian one heading, the figures will total rather tore thi in the