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The Appendix hereto contains the following tables : — A. Balance-sheet of Income and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1902. B. Table showing Bevenue and Expenditure for each of the Last Eight Years. C. Particulars of Fees received from the Ist January to the 31st December. 1902. D. Staff of Officers, and Salaries. E. Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Begistration of Designs and Trade-marks, recorded for the Years 1890 to 1902 inclusive. F. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c, under Act of 1889. G. Table showing, over a series of years, the Number of Patents that were considered of sufficient value to be kept alive by Payment of the Benewal Fees. H. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1900, 1901, and 1902. I. Number of Applications for Begistration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1900, 1901, and 1902. J. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks, in the fifty different classes, in each of the Years 1900, 1901, and 1902. K. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Patents in the Year 1902. L. Alphabetical List of Titles of Inventions for which Letters Patent have been applied during the Year 1902. M. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Begistration of Designs during the Year 1902. N. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Begistration of Trade-marks during the Year 1902. F. Waldegrave, Begistrar. Patent Office, Wellington, 3rd April, 1903.

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A.—Balance-sheet of Income and Expenditure for the Year ending 31st December, 1902. Income. £ s. d. i Expenditure. £ s. d. Patent fees ... ... ... 3,439 23 j Salaries ... «... ... 634 17 1 Design fees ... ... ... 15 00 I Clerical assistance ... ... 106 15 0 Trade-mark fees ... ... 528 13 6 ! Copying specifications ... ... 14 14 8 Sale of Gazettes, Acts, &c. ... 16 7 6 Fees to Patent Office Agents ... 45 2 6 Printing Patents Gazette* ... 348 0 0 Binding printed specifications, 67 5 6 &c, presented to office by other countries* Other printing and binding* ... 7388 Stationery ... ... ... 12 12 7 Telephone ... ... ... 7 0 0 Fees refunded ... ... 21 10 0 Incidental expenses ... ... 13 11 1 Balance for the year ... ... 2,654 6 2 £3,999 3 3 £3,999 3 3 * Printing and binding done by Government Printing Office.

B.-Table showing Revenue and Expenditure for each of the Last Eight Years.

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Year. Beceipts. Expenditure. Surplus. Year. Receipts. Expenditure. I Surplus. .895 .896 .897 .898 £ s. d. .. 2,170 9 6 .. 2,583 0 6 I .. 3,183 9 0 .. 2,824 9 0 £ s. d. £ p. d. 464 15 8 1,705 13 10 564 6 10 2,018 13 8 574 15 2 2,608 13 10 623 1 11 2,201 7 1 1899 1900 1901 1902 £ a. A. £ s. d. £ s. A. .. : 3,102 2 6 851 2 6 2,251 0 0 .. 3,396 17 3 1,027 5 8 2,369 11 7 .. 3,366 12 4 1,205 15 2 2,160 17 2 .. 3,999 3 3 1,344 17 1 2,654 6 2 Note. Printing, binding, and other items now debited to the office were not iu former years brought to charge.