H.--10.

D.—Staff of Officers and Salaries. £ Begistrar* ... ... ... ... ... ... Nil. Deputv-Begistrar ... ... ... ... ... 240 Clerk" ... ... ... ... ... ... 130 Cadet ... ... ... ... ... ... 95 £465

* Also Under-Secretary for Justice.

E.—Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c., under Act of 1889.

F.—Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Registration of Designs and Trade Marks, recorded for the Years 1890 to 1899 inclusive.

G.—Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1897, 1898, and 1899.

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3 CD Number cations w: Complete cations of Appliith which 3 Specifilodged. Number of Applications with which Provisional Specifications lodged. Nu: Applii which Specifh sequel: nber of lations for Complete iations subtly lodged. Numbe: cations i laps rei t- of Appliibandoned, led, or 'used. Num Patent: iber of s sealed. I Total Number of Applications. 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 N.Z. 242 187 202 198 278 229 299 217 199 182 Foreign. 207 207 191 178 166 201 275 303 305 297 N.Z. 107 126 160 197 251 307 318 444 419 382 Foreign. 60 69 53 52 61 79 100 129 98 131 N.Z. 27 29 40 51 69 75 68 87 102 * Foreign. 17 25 16 24 > 16 N.Z. 202 191 237 262 352 403 439 481 * Foreign. 50 50 43 30 51 51 75 95 * N.Z. 147 122 125 133 177 133 185 181 * Foreign. 217 226 201 200 176 229 293 336 * 616 589 606 625 756 816 992 1,093 1,021 992 33 41 29 * * * * * * I 'hese figure! are necessarily incomplete, as the time for proceeding further with thi applic: .tions hai not yet ixpirei

Year. Patents. Designs. Trade-marks. Total. 1890 616 5 160 781 1891 589 4 225 818 1892 606 10 290 906 1893 625 1 325 951 1894 756 15 347 1,118 1895 816 14 254 1,084 1896 992 27 279 1,298 1897 1,093 13 361 1,467 1898 1,021 10 343 1,374 1899 992 12 328 1,332

1897. 1898. 1899. 1897. 1898. 1899. New Zealand Argentine Republic Austria . Belgium Canada Cape of Good Hope Denmark 661 1 2 3 12 616 563 Nicaragua Norway Queensland Russia South African Republic .. South Australia Spain Sweden Tasmania United Kingdom United States Uruguay Victoria Western Australia "2 13 1 "l 5 3 1 5 11 9 4 3 7 10 18 1 2 5 127 56 1 87 3 7 8 2 3 8 2 11 10 10 5 15 3 2 1 13 France Germany Holland Hungary India Italy Natal New South Wales 2 5 131 58 1 85 5 2 99 109 1 2 1 65 68 9 65 78 Note. —A few applications were rece: ;otal more than the actual number of api ived frc ilicatioi >ni join is recen t applicants resident in different countries; the figures will, therefore, r ed.