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I.—Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1906, 1907, and 1908.

On the pages referred to in the above table will be found lists of the inventions which are included in the various classes for the year 1908.

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Class. I 1906. 1907. 1908. Page, j Class. 1906. 1907. 1908. Page. 1 t Advertising and displaying, signs, &c. Aeronautics Amusements, music, exer cisers, games, &c. Attaching and securing (in eluding bolts, lies, &c.) 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) Chemicals Cleaning, polishing, &c. Closets and urinals Coin-feed mechanism Cooling and freezing Cultivating and tilling Cutting and sawing and tools Dairying Drains and sewers Dredging and excavating (including rock-drills) Drying Electricity and magnetism .. Engines (air, gas, and oil) .. „ (steam), including rotary pumps (miscellaneous and engine-accessories) including current motors, solar motors, tide motors, wave motors, windmills, and miscellaneous motors Explosives, firearms, and targets Exterminating and trapping animals Fencing .. „ (strainers) Fibre-dressing (including ropemaking) Filters .. .. .. j Fire alarms, escapes, ladders, ' and extinguishers Food Furnaces and kilns (including smoke-consumers) Furniture and upholstery, desks, blinds, curtains, &c. Gas-manufacture for lighting, heating, or power purposes Harness (including horse, &c, covers) 8 23 2!) Harvesting and grading Heating and fuel-manu facture Illuminating (except gasmanufacture) Indicating, calculating, and measuring (including mois-ture-testers) Kauri-gum Kitchen utensils and cooking appliances (including ovens) Lifting, hauling, and loading Locks, latches, and hinges .. Marine and submarine (including lake and river engineering) Marking (tickets, labels, &o.) Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear instruments, dental work, Ac;.) Metal-working (including welding, stamping, and plating) Minerals (inoluding filtration, lixiviation, screens, &o.) Ditto (magnetic separators).. „ (stampers and pulverisers) Oils and lubricators Paints and painting Pipes, tubes, and hose Preserving Presses Printing and photography .. Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 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 (including veterinary appliances) Sheep shearing and clipping Shop and hotel fittings Stationery and paper Telephony and telegraphy (including phonographs) Tobacco Valves and cocks Vehicles „ (velocipedes) Ventilating Washing and cleansing Water-supplying Wearing-apparel Wools and hides Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as indiarubber manufacture, fishing appliances, &o. 14 37 IS 25 11 31 3T 37 8 3 46 2 1 23 i 40 29 29 38 32 25 37 24 10 j 13 2!) 41 (il 35 37 3 66 81 3 i 4 G2 00 19 ! 13 21) 29 30 3 03 7 33 1 25 38 38 32 29 \ 27 30 88 25 17 'AC, 22 IG 22 23 19 38 38 38 16 1 1 13 6 30 80 45 15 53 34 22 32 30 31 14 Iβ L8 IT 12 18 39 39 19 3 17 13 2 9 34 68 66 16 24 19 2G 6 7 17 6 7 12 4 5 14 18 18 22 39 51 77 69 12 6 10 9 81 81 81 32 8a 82 32 82 88 88 88 6 69 1 12 13 42 2 7 18 36 3 8 39 39 39 39 6 7 20 15 3 24 23 3 3 14 5 5 'AS 14 11 2 8 7 4 21 15 39 40 40 40 40 40 40 8 27 28 87 8 I 8 18 20 22 9 21 28 38 88 84 34 Iβ 34 39 84 4 70 11 8 73 8 3 54 5 40 40 41 7 10 14 41 13 4 27 18 10 33 8 5 25 41 41 41 10 12 7 34 6 27 80 18 7 14 29 1C 6 14 28 13 41 41 41 42 24 23 24 34 80 12 87 42 II -14 27 9 44 35 35 35 11 19 38 42 (i 21 4 39 3 14 7 0 40 GO 8 14 4 34 10 4 4 13 41 57 9 35 3 33 3 0 42 42 42 42 43 43 43 43 43 43 0 21 17 3 83 35 35 4 23 18 21 10 20 36 36 49 34 1C 36 30 26 88 36 41 22 18 37 Note. —Owing to some inveni .ctual number ol applications rei ions beii 3eived. ig clasi lifted ui ider moi ■e than one heading, the figures wil II total rather lore thi -n the