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I. —Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1910, 1911, and 1912.

J.-Number of Applications received under the International and Colonial Arrangements, showing the Country of Origin, in each of the Years 1910, 1911, and 1912.

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Class. 1910. 1911. 1912. Class. 1910. 1911. ; 1912. Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. 17 17 29 13 Illuminating (except gas-manufac-ture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including moisture-testers) 29 29 29 Aeronautics Amusements, musio, exercisers, games, &c. Attaching and securing (including bolts, ties, &c.) 20 39 20 39 18 10 44 8 43 35 27 41 18 23 20 Kitchen utensils and cookingappliances (including ovens) 41 52 32 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) 14 74 30 40 6 13 14 74 30 40 6 13 39 25 28 9 59 23 53 2 19 13 29 27 45 1 10 Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges 21 27 23 28 23 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) .. 27 32 41 27 13 12 34 10 10 39 25 41 27 28 28 19 15 19 28 83 23 40 69 31 72 28 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 8 13 20 4 18 32 38 8 13 20 4 18 32 38 33 29 25 2 10 33 83 18 15 19 7 11 32 69 1 4 1 1 *3 Oils and lubricators 17 19 9 Dairying* .. .. Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (including rock-drills) Drying .. 110 1 19 110 1 19 10 43 5 11 32 4 12 Paints and painting Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 8 20 9 4 14 25 11 18 8 1 20 21 8 15 6 3 28 12 10 15 16 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 35 18 39 59 17 21 35 18 39 59 27 31 25 47 11 34 19 29 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 52 7 18 13 7 26 58 4 16 2 14 31 40 8 7 6 9 24 16 18 13 16 10 14 48 7 25 57 6 6 37 Fencing (strainers) .. .. i Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Food .. Furnaces and kilns (including smoke- j consumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &c. 16 18 70 6 19 6 25 54 32 17 03 30 6 34 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco .. ... 23 31 64 5 7 10 6 11 3 15 Valves and cocks Vehicles „ (velocipedes) Ventilating 13 43 45 6 8 47 46 1 16 43 50 5 12 42 9 27 50 51 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 20 7 57 9 25 8 75 8 32 1 69 9 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 29 46 29 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing-appliances, &o. 10 11 3 Harness (including horse, &c, covers) Harvesting and grading .. .. | Heating and fuel-manufacture .. . 30 7 31 15 23 13 36 6 23 NOTE.—Owing to some inventions being ch ictual number of applications received. ♦ Prior to 1911 milking-machines were inch issifled inder in ore than one heading, the figures will total rather more ;han the ided in ;lass Da iryiug, but are uow a separate class.

Country. 1.910. 1911. . 1912. Country. 1910. 1911. 1912. .ustralia. .ustria telgium 'ranee 47 66 2 5 1 50 i Great Britain 1 Norway 2 Spain 6 Switzerland 12 United States of America 49 1 52 : 65 3 1 2 14 8 1 12 i-ermany