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H. —Table showing Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1914, 1915, and 1916.

I.—Applications pending at End of Year 1916. Total, 1,324.

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Class. 1914. 1916. 1916. ! I Class. 1914. 1915. 1916. Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exercisers, games, &c. Attaching and securing (inoluding bolts, ties, &c.) 21 8 36 5 8 32 4 7 35 Illuminating (except gas-manufac-ture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including moisture-testers) 16 23 12 37 20 20 17 21 11 Kitchen utensils and cookingappliances (including ovens) 42 35 33 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, com positions and moulding) , (windows and doors) 10 37 22 29 2 10 11 26 9 33 2 8 4 34 16 29 Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges Marine and submarine (inoluding lake and river engineering) Marking (tickets, labels, &c.) Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear-instruments, dental work, &c.) Metal-working (inoluding welding, stamping, and plating) Milking-machines * Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators) „ (stampers and pulverizers) .. 20 .18 22 25 13 43 16 15 19 8 15 11 12 36 14 23 31 21 28 22 17 28 12 8 20 31 9 15 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 5 13 12 5 3 48 47 3 10 21 2 8 25 32 6 15 14 11 4 3a 36 02 29 55 11 51 14 3 1 2 *6 Oils and lubricators 10 20 5 Paints and painting (inoluding kauri-gum) i Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 9 11 11 Dairying* Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (inoluding rock-drills) Drying .. :i() 5 7 22 3 9 21 2 4 10 9 1 9 12 8 3 4 11 7 7 6 1 I 10 16 8 6 23 Electricity and magnetism Engines (air, gas, and oil) (steam), including rotary pumps (miscellaneous and engineaooessories) inoluding ourrent motors, solar motors, tide motors, wavo motors, windmills, miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets .. Exterminating (including trapping animals) 17 31 19 31 21 26 9 26 22 22 9 26 Railways and tramways Roads and ways (including roadwatering) Seed-dressing, chaff-cutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle (inoluding veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper 77 4 10 32 1 6 34 7 5 5 ' 6 27 12 9 23 6 8 18 9 10 25 12 35 15 8 17 27 2 9 23 3 11 32 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, &c. 18 8 58 14 5 25 19 4 15 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco 82 26 24 1 8 2 1 7 2 ll 2 9 Valves and cooks Vehicles (velocipedes) Ventilating 9 34 44 7 10 32 36 6 9 32 34 5 7 11 8 7 6 5 52 34 55 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 14 5 44 6 17 6 22 7 17 7 27 6 Gas-manufaoture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 26 17 14 18 9 27 17 6 25 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing-applianoes, &o. 8 4 4 Harness (including horse, &c, covers) Harvesting and grading Heating and fuel-manufacture 19 9 33 Note.—Owing to some inventions li actual number of applications received. * Prior to 1911 milking-machines we joingcli issitied u inder m sre than one heading, the figures will total rather more t,l ban ire inch ided in c' lass " Di uirying," but are now a separate class.