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I.-Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1907, 1908, and 1909.

Note.—Owing to some inventions being classified under more than one heading, the figures will total rather more than the actual number of applications received. On the pages referred to in the above table will be found lists of the inventions which are included n the various classes for the year 1909.

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Class. 1907. 1908. 1909. Page. Class. 1907. 1908. 19C9. Page. Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exercisers, games, &o. Attaching and securing (including bolts, ties, &c.) 8 23 23 39 Heating and fuel-manufac-ture 25 31 28 47 2 23 1 40 27 34 39 39 Illuminating (except gasmanufacture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including mois-ture-testers) 32 25 26 47 10 13 14 39 61 35 33 48 Boilers (steam) Boots and shoes Bottles, bottling, and glassworking Boxes, cans, and casks (including buckets) Brewing, distilling, &c. Brooms and brushes (including mops) Building, construction „ (brick and cement, compositions and moulding) , (windows and doors) 3 62 19 4 60 13 14 79 26 39 40 40 Kauri-gum Kitchen utensils and cooking appliances (including ovens) 7 33 1 25 48 56 29 27 29 41 26 22 22 23 29 23 49 49 1 13 1 6 1 13 41 41 Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges .. 53 22 34 32 41 41 Marine and submarine (including lake and river engineering) Marking (tickets, labels, &o.) Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear instruments, dental work, &c.) Metal-working (including welding, stamping, and plating) Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators).. „ (stampers and pulverisers) 16 19 35 49 43 22 13 17 12 18 14 18 49 49 19 26 27 42 Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-freed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing, and tools 6 17 7 4 14 18 39 7 6 12 5 13 22 51 5 4 34 3 5 22 48 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 13 18 14 49 42 36 46 50 2 7 3 8 6 50 Dairying Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (inoluding rock-drills) Drying .. 77 12 16 69 6 9 67 2 16 43 43 43 Oils and lubricators 3 11 5 50 Electricity and magnetism .. Engines (air, gas, and oil) .. (steam), including rotary pumps „ (miscellaneous and engine-accessories) inoluding— Current motors, Solar motors, Tide motors, Wave motors, Windmills, Miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets Exterminating and trapping animals 8 18 22 21 8 20 9 28 14 17 16 28 44 44 44 44 Paints and painting Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography .. Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 3 14 5 5 23 14 2 8 7 4 21 15 3 7 2 2 32 24 50 50 50 50 50 51 34 39 28 44 8 73 8 3 54 5 1 48 5 51 51 51 Racecourse accessories Railways and tramways Roads and ways, road-water-ing Seed-dressing, chaff-cutting, and threshing Seed-sowers Sewing and knitting Sheep and cattle (inoluding veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper 10 14 18 51 18 10 33 8 5 25 9 7 17 51 52 52 12 7 23 44 23 24 13 45 7 14 29 6 14 28 9 11 27 52 52 52 Fencing .. „ (strainers) Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters .. Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, and extinguishers Food Furnaces and kilns (including smoke-consumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, ourtains, &c. 42 11 44 27 9 44 21 16 59 45 45 45 Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco.. 16 13 15 52 7 4 7 52 17 3 32 11 15 46 46 Valves and cocks Vehicles „ (velocipedes) Ventilating 6 40 66 8 13 41 57 9 19 53 45 9 52 53 53 53 13 21 10 20 15 22 46 46 34 46 56 46 Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides 14 4 34 10 35 3 33 3 24 9 44 12 54 54 54 54 Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes 26 38 37 47 22 18 29 47 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as India rubber manufacture, fishing appliances, &o. 4 6 13 54 Harness (including horse,&c, covers) Harvesting and grading 18 11 11 47