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I. —Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1911, 1912, and 1913.

J. —Number of Applications received under the International and Colonial Arrangements, showing the Country of Origin, in each of the Years 1911, 1912, and 1913.

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Class. ; mi. 1912. 1913. Class. 1911. 1912. 1918. Advertising and displaying, signs, &o. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exercisers, games, &o. Attaching and securing (including bolts, ties, &c.) 29 l:s 16 Illuminating (except gas-manufac-ture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including moisture-testers) 2'.) 2! I 28 HI 44 8 18 •i 27 41 83 23 20 28 Kitchen utensils and oookingappliances (including ovens) 52 32 59 Boilers (steam) Boots and shoes Bottles, bottling, and glass-working Boxes, cans, and casks Brewing, distilling, &c. Brooms and brushes (including mops) Building, construction » (brick and cement, compositions and moulding) „ (windows and doors) 9 59 23 53 2 19 13 29 27 Iβ 1 10 L8 20 24 17 5 s Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges Marine and submarine (including lake and river engineering) Marking (tickets, labels, &c.) Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear-instruments, dental work, &c.) Metal-working (including welding, stamping, and plating) Milking-machines * Minerals (including filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators) „ (stampers and pulverizers) .. 2.", 28 32 2S 28 41 21 20 39 i a 34 10 10 6 34 41 27 28 28 .7 28 16 in 14 88 28 21 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 88 29 25 2 l() 33 88 IK 16 19 7 4 20 17 (i 6 25 19 69 81 72 2K 68 80 1 1 3 1 3 1 ! 82 69 Oils and lubricators 19 9 13 Dairying* Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (including rock-drills) Drying 43 5 11 32 4 12 27 2 3 Paints and painting (including kauri-gum) Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 11 8 13 16 Iβ 12 18 8 1 20 21 15 6 3 2S 12 10 8 3 22 21 Electricity and magnetism Engines (air, gas, and oil) (steam), including rotary pumps (miscellaneous and engineaccessories) including— Current motors, Solar motors, Tide motors, Wave motors, Windmills, Miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets .. Exterminating (including trapping animals) 27 31 11 HI l'J 15 42 18 58 4 10 8 80 8 17 39 42 Railways and tramways Roads and ways (including roadwatering) Seed-dressing, chaff-cutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle (including veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper 16 7 12 2 14 81 6 9 21 7 4 82 16 IS 18 Lβ IK BO 7 25 57 6 6 37 4 6 38 Fencing „ (strainers) Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters .. Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Food .. Furnaces and kilns (including smokeconsumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &c. 39 17 63 80 6 34 ■20 10 56 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco 81 64 (il 6 11 3 15 4 12 7 10 11 12 42 9 27 10 2'.) Valves and cock" Vehicles (velocipedes) Ventilating 8 47 4(1 1 Lβ 43 50 5 6 45 •12 5 50 51 61 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 25 8 75 8 32 1 69 9 23 11 55 4 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 46 29 24 Harness (including horse, Ac, covers) Harvesting and grading Heating and fuel-manufacture 15 2:-) 20 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiaruhbci manufacture, fishing-appiiances. 11 3 11 18 86 6 ■2.-) 6 86 Note. —Owing to some inventions being cli actual number of applications received. * Prior to 1911 milking-machines were incli issifled under more than one heading, tlie figures will total ratlier more tl ian th« ided in Class Dairying, but are now a separate clase.

Country. Australia Austria Belgium Canada France Germany 1911. 1912. 66 50 2 1 .... 2 :: "e "e 1 12 : 1913. 46 1 1 1 6 Country. 1911. 1912. 1913. -.. Great Britain .. 52 65 Hungary Norway .. .. .. 3 Spain .. .. Switzerland .. .. .. 1 United States of America 8 12 58 1 1 1 23