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Conclusion. The appendix hereto contains the following tables, lists, &c., viz. : A. Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1938. B. Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Ten Years. C. Particulars of Fees received from Ist January to 31st December, 1938, together with the Corresponding Figures for the years 1936 and 1937. D. Total Number of Applications for Patents and for Registration of Designs and Trademarks recorded for the years 1914 to 1938 (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 1937 and 1938, together with the Average for the Years 1932—36 (inclusive). 6. Number of Applications for Patents for the Different Classes of Inventions in each of the Years 1937 and 1938, together with the Average for the Years 1932-36 (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, 1938 (inclusive). I Number of Applications for Registration of Designs in each of the Fifteen Classes in each of the Years 1936, 1937, and 1938. J. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing m JNew Zealand or Dependencies, &c., and in other Countries in each of the Years 1937 and 1938, together with the Average for the Years 1932-36 (inclusive). K. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks in the Fifty Different Classes in each of the Years 1937 and 1938, together with the Average for the Years 1932 -36 (inclusive). H. T. Atkinson, Commissioner of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks. The Patent Office, Wellington, sth August, 1939.

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