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STANDARD MARK During the year, 164 applications for licences to use the Standard Mark were received from applicants engaged in 8 different industries. Over the same period, 166 licences were issued, bringing the total number granted since 1944 to 1,063. Of these, -61 have been cancelled, in most cases because the licensee has gone out of business. At the close of the year, therefore, there were 1,002 current licences. Table A shows the licences granted during the year, the total licences issued to date, and the industries •over which they are distributed :

Table A —Licences to Use the Standard Mark

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Industry. Licences Granted, Total Licences 1948-49. Granted. Household furniture j 55 551 Motor-car cleaning and lubrication services 105 358 Footwear 38 School paper stationery 1 15 Household tinware utensils 10 Hearing-aid equipment 10 Paua shell jewellery 10 Leather dress gloves 1 8 Ready-mixed paints 1 5 Regenerated lubricating-oil 5 Cow-covers ! 3 Fire-extinguishers 3 Preservative pretreatment of timber 3 Plywoods 3 Inks 3 Milking-machine rubberware 3 Shirt' and pyjama sizes 2 Terazzo work 2 Flushing - cisterns 1 ■■ 2 Creosote for preservation of timber o Halt glazed-ware pipes 2 Soaps .> Flock .. 2 Nylon toothbrushes I Ceiling roses 1 Fish-liver oils .. .. . . ... 1 Men's working garments 1 Oily canvas clothing 1 Precast concrete drainage pipes 1 ' Precast concrete pressure pipes 1 . Earthenware roofing-tiles.. \ \ 1 Lubricating-cup greases ■ 1 Fencing wire 1 Electric plugs and sockets and ceiling roses . . '!.■ :- Rating and testing of heating elements 1 harden tools 1 "Joiners' glue I Asbestos-cement products 1 Plugs and sockets and switches i 1 ■•: ■ Vegetables i 1 Mincers i 1 Electric kettles and jugs i 1 ; : School rulers .. .. ' 1 Totals 166 1,063