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I. —Table showing Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1913, 1914, and 1915.

J. —Number of Applications received under the International and Colonial Arrangements, showing the Country of Origin, in each of the Years 1913, 1914, and 1915.

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Class. 1913. 1914. 1916. Class. 1913. 1914. 1915. Advertising and displaying, signs, &e. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exercisers, games, &o. Attaching and securing (inoluding bolts, ties, &c.) 16 21 5 Illuminating (oxcept gas-manufac-ture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including moisture-testers) 28 16 12 4 41 8 36 8 32 32 23 37 28 17 21 Kitchon utensils and cookingappliances (including ovons) 59 42 35 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) 13 20 24 47 5 8 10 37 22 29 2 10 11 26 9 33 2 8 Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges Marine and submarine (including lake and river engineering) Marking (tickets, labels, &o.) Medicines and surgical appliances (inoluding ear-instruments, dental work, &o.) Metal-working (inoluding welding, stamping, and plating) Milking-machines * Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators) (stampors and pulverizers) .. 24 20 39 20 18 22 25 13 43 6 24 15 11 12 16 37 28 31 21 • 28 22 15 14 12 21 20 31 55 11 Chemioals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools i 20 17 6 6 25 49 5 13 12 5 3 48 17 3 10 21 2 8 25 32 68 30 62 29 1 3 3 1 2 Oils and lubricators 13 10 20 27 2 3 30 5 7 22 3 9 Paints and painting (inoluding kauri-gum) Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 13 9 ' 11 Dairying* Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (inoluding rock-drills) Drying .. 10 3 3 22 21 10 9 1 9 12 8 3 4 11 7 12 8 6 Electricity and magnetism Engines (air, gas, and oil) „ (steam), including rotary pumps (miscellaneous and engineaccessories) inoluding— Current motors, Solar motors, Tide motors, Wave motors, Windmills, Miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets .. Exterminating (including trapping animals) 15 42 18 17 31 19 21 26 9 80 8 77 4 32 1 42 31 26 Railways and tramways Roads and ways (including roadwatering) Seed-dressing, chaffcutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattlo (inoluding veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper 12 10 6 7 4 32 5 6 27 12 9 23 18 30 9 10 25 12 4 6 38 8 17 27 2 9 23 Fencing , (strainers) Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters .. Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Pood .. Furnaces and kilns (including smokeconsumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &o. 20 10 56 18 8 58 14 5 25 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacoo 61 82 26 1 7 2 14 11 1 8 4 12 Valves and cocks Vehicles „ (velocipedes) Ventilating 6 45 42 5 9 34 44 7 10 32 36 6 10 29 7 11 8 7 61 52 34 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 23 11. 55 4 14 5 41 6 17 6 22 7 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 24 26 17 20 6 36 19 9 33 18 9 27 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing-appliances, &o. 11 8 4 Harness (including horse, &o., covers) Harvesting and grading Heating and fu6l-manufacture Note. —Owing to some invention!, actual number of applications roeeivod. * Prior to 1911 milking-machines w jeing cli .sained inder ii ore than one heading, the figures will total rather more than the iro inch ided in !lass Di irying, but are now a separate class.

Country. 1913. 1914. ' 1915. Country. 1913. 1914. 1915. Australia Belgium Canada 46 1 1 1 6 58 41 1 37 Holland Hungary Spain Sweden Switzerland United States of America 1 1 2 France "2 64 2 Germany Great Britain 1 24 1 23 25 13