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Patent Agents. The number of Patent Agents on the register as at 31st December, 1936, was 18, one name having been added to the register during the year. Conclusion. The appendix hereto contains the following tables, lists, &c., viz. :— A. Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1936. B. Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Ten Years. C. Particulars of Fees received from Ist January to 31st December, 1936, together with the Corresponding Figures for the years 1934 and 1935. D. Total Number of Applications for Patents and for Registration of Designs and Trademarks recorded for the years 1913 to 1936 (inclusive). E. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c. F. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand or Dependencies, &c., and in other Countries in each of the Years 1935 and 1936, together with the Average for the Years 1930-34 (inclusive). G. Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions in each of the Years 1935 and 1936, together with the Average for the Years 1930-34 (inclusive). H. Total Number of Applications for Patents, Letters Patent sealed, and Letters Patent in force for Full Term under the Different Patents Acts, up to 31st December, 1936 (inclusive). . I. Number of Applications for Registration of Designs in each of the Fifteen Classes in each of the Years 1934, 1935, and 1936. J. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand or Dependencies, &c., and in other Countries in each of the Years 1935 and 1936, together with the Average for the Years 1930-34 (inclusive). K. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks in the Fifty Different Classes in each of the Years 1935 and 1936, together with the Average for the Years 1930-34 (inclusive). PI. T. Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks. The Patent Office, Wellington, Ist November, 1937.

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PATENT OFFICE. A—Receipts and Payments Account foe the Yeae ended 31st Decembee, 1936. Receipts. £ s. d. Payments. c K a Patent fees .. .. .. .. .. 9,628 10 4 Salaries .. , ~, Ja" Design fees 97 11 6 Fuel, light, &c. 41 iq V Trade-mark fees 3,482 10 11 Postage, telegrams, and telephones ni 11 4 Printing and stationery 104 .< . , gales of Acts, journals, &c.— £ s. d. Patent Office Journal' .. .. " '' <582 17 n At the Government Printing Office .. 57 17 10 Typewriter repairs .. .. " " % ! o At the Patent Office .. .. 910 9 Contingencies.. .. .. ' 11 1 7 67 8 7 Office fittings .. .. .. 479 Refunds .. .. .. " ' 44 18 11 Balance : Cash in Public Account .. . g ; 054 2 3 £13,276 1 4 £13,276 1 4 H. T. Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents. I hereby certify that the Statement of Receipts and Payments has been duly examined and compared with the relative books and documents submitted for audit, and correctly state the position as disclosed thereby Copv right fees are not included. —J. H. Fowleb, Controller and Auditor-Gneral.

B. —Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Ten Years.

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Year. Beeeipts. | Payments. Surplus. jj Year. j Receipts. j Payments. Surplus. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. j £ s. d. £ s. d £ s d 1927 12,642 2 6 5,387 7 1 7,254 15 5 1932 12,034 19 4 4 78" 7 Ō 7 2S2 19 4 1928 13,302 10 11 5,374 2 10 7,931 8 1 , 1933 11,694 11 10 4'378 18 10 7 315 A n 1929 14,066 2 0 5,873 9 10 8,192 12 2 j 1934 12,376 5 11 4'709 6 9 7 666 19 2 1930 14,195 15 7 5,832 7 2 8,363 8 5 i 1935 12,868 19 4 4 476 13 3 8 392 fi T 1931 13,390 11 6 5,466 7 8 7,924 3 10 j 1936 13,276 1 4 5 221 19 1 8 054 2 3