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I. —Table showing Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1912, 1913, and 1914.

Note.—Owing to some inventions being classified under more than one heading, tlie figures will total rather more than the actual number of applications received. * Prior to 1911 milking-machines were included in Class Dairying, but are now a separate class.

J. —Number of Applications received under the International and Colonial Arrangements, showing the Country of Origin, in each of the Years 1912, 1913, and 1914.

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Class. 1912. 1918, nut. Class. 1912. j 1913. 1914, Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. 18 16 21 Illuminating (except gas-manufac-ture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including moisture-testers) 29 28 16 Aeronautics Amusements, music, exercisers, games, &c. Attaching and securing (including bolts, ties, &c.) 8 43 4 41 8 36 41 32 23 20 28 17 Kitchen utensils and cookingappliances (including ovens) 32 59 42 Boilers (steam) Boots and shoes Bottles, bottling, and glass-working Boxes, cans, and casks Brewing, distilling, &o, Brooms and brushes (including mops) Building, construction (brick and cement, compositions and moulding) „ (windows and doors) 18 29 27 45 1 10 13 20 24 47 5 8 10 37 22 29 2 10 Lifting, hauling, and loading Looks, latches, and hinges .. j 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* .. .. j Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnotic separators) „ (stampers and pulverizers) .. 28 28 24 20 20 18 41 39 I 22 10 10 6 24 15 11 28 28 37 28 31 21 19 14 12 23 21 20 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 18 15 19 7 11 32 69 4 20 17 6 6 25 49 5 13 12 5 3 48 47 72 28 68 30 62 • 29 •3 1 3 .3 Oils and lubricators .. 9 13 10 Dairying* Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (inoluding rock-drills) Drying .. .. .... 32 4 12 27 2 3 30 5 7 Paints and painting (inoluding kauri-gum) Pipes, tubes, and hose .. .. j Preserving Presses Printing and photography Pumps and sprayers (except rotary , pumps) 8 15 6 3 28 12 13 10 3 3 22 21 9 10 9 1 9 12 16 12 8 ■ 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) 11 34 19 IS 42 18 17 31 • 19 40 8 80 8 77 4 29 42 31 Railways and tramways Roads and ways (including roadwatering) Seed-dressing, ohaffcutting, and ! threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle (including veterinary applianoes) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings .. Stationery and paper .. 7 12 10 6 9 24 7 4 32 5 6 27 13 16 18 30 9 10 6 6 37 4 6 38 8 17 27 Fencing (strainers) Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters Firo alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Food .. Furnaces and kilns (including smokeconsumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &c. 30 6 34 20 10 56 18 8 58 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacoo 64 61 82 3 15 4 12 1 7 10 11 1 9 27 10 29 7 11 Valves and cocks Vehicles (velocipedes) Ventilating 16 43 50 5 6 45 42 5 9 34 44 7 51 61 52 Washing and cleansing .. Water-supplying Wearing-apparel .. Wools and bides .. .. ! 32 1 69 9 23 11 55 4 14 5 44 6 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 29 24 26 23 6 23 • 20 6 36 19 9 33 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing-appliances, &c. 3 11 8 Harness (including horse, &c, covers) Harvesting and grading Heating and fuel-manufacture

Country. 1912. 1913. 1914. Country. 1912. 1913. 1914. Australia Austria Belgium Canada 50 46 41 1 2 1 1 1 6 1 12 6 2 65 j 58 64 41 Holland Hungary Norway Spain ... Sweden Switzerland United States of America 1 2 1 3 1 "2 France "2 64 Germany Great Britain 1 12 1 23 25