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CONCLUSION. I have pleasure in acknowledging the services rendered by the staff as well as by the Patent Office Agents during the year. The Appendix hereto contains : — JPage Paper set at Examination for Registration of Patent Agent. . . . .. ..11 And the following tables and lists, viz. : — A. Balance-sheet of Income and Expenditure for the Year ended 31st December, 1911 .. 11 B. Table showing Revenue and Expenditure for each of the Last Eight Years . . 12 C. Particulais of Fees received from the Ist January to the 31st December, 19] I . . 12 D. Staff of Officers, and Salaries. . . . .... .. .. . . 13 E. Total Number of Applications for Patents, and Registration of Designs and Trademarks, recorded for the years 1890 to 1911 inclusive .. . . . . 13 F. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received.. &c. . . . . 13 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 Renewal Fees . . 14 H. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of tho Years 1909, 1910, 1911 .. . . 14 I. Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Inventions for each of the Years 1909, 1910, and 1911 .. . . .. . . . . 15 J. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Colonies and Countries in each of the Years 1909, 1910. and 1911 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 K. Designs : Table showing Number of Applications in each of the Fourteen Classes to end of 1908, and in the Years 1909, 1910, and 1911 respectively . . . . 16 L. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks, in the Fifty Different Classes in each of the Years 1909, 1910, and 1911 .. .. .. .. ..17 M. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Patents for the Year ended 31st December, 1911 18 N. Classified List of Inventions for which Letters Patent have been applied for during the year ended 31st December, 1911 . . .. . . .. .. .. 38 0. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Registration of Trade-marks during the year ended 31st December, 1911 .. .. .. .. ... . . 58 P. Alphabetical List of Applicants for Registration of Designs during the year ended 31st December, 1911 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 65 Q. Number Index of Proceedings in respect of Applications filed in 1910 and 1911 .. 66 Patent Office, J. C. Lewis, Wellington, 20th June, 1912. Registrar.