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The total number of applications from the British Empire (including New Zealand) was 877, as compared with 996 for 1925 and 1,079 for 1924, or 77 per cent, of the total received. The number of applications received up to the 31st December, 1889, was 1,213. From that date to the 31st December, 1926, 24,691 applications were lodged, giving a total of 25,904. Applications were greatest in number in the following classes of goods : " Philosophical instruments, scientific instruments, and apparatus for useful purposes ; instruments and apparatus for teaching " (Class 8), 82 (75) : " Articles of clothing " (Class 38), 74 (109) : " Substances used as food or as ingredients in food " (Class 42), 170 (192) : " Candles, common soap, detergents ; illuminating, beating, or lubricating oils; matches; and starch, blue, and other preparations for laundry purposes" (Class 47), 88 (84) : and " Perfumery (including toilet articles, preparations for the teeth and hair, and perfumed soap)," (Class 48), 56 (70). Patent Agents. The total number of names now on the register is 19, no additions having been made during 1926. Conclusion. The appendix hereto contains the following tables, lists, &c., viz. : — Page A. Receipts and Payments Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1926 . . 4 B. Table showing Receipts and Payments for each of the Last Eight Years . . 4C. Particulars of Fees received from Ist January to 31st December, 1926 . . . . 4 D. StafE of Officers, and Salaries, for Year ending 31st March, 1927 .. .. 5 E. Total Number of Applications for Patents and Registration of Designs and Trademarks recorded for the Years 1890, 1900, and 1910 to 1926 (inclusive) . . 5 F. Number of Provisional and Complete Specifications received, &c. .. 6 G. Number of Applications for Patents from Persons residing in New Zealand and in other Countries in each of the Years 1924, 1925, and 1926.. .. 6 H. Table showing Number of Applications for the Different Classes of Invention for each of the Years 1924, 1925, and 1926 .. .. .. .. 7 I. Table showing Total Number of Applications, Letters Patent sealed, and Letters Patent in Force for Full Term under the Different Patents Acts, up to 31st December, 1926 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..8 J. Number of Applications for Registration of Designs in each of the Fifteen Classes in the Year 1926 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 K. Number of Applications for Registration of Trade-marks from Persons residing in New Zealand and other Countries in each of the Years 1924, 1925, and 1926.. 8 L. Number of Applications to register Trade-marks in the Fifty Different Classes in each of the Years 1924, 1925, and 1926 . . . . . . .. 9 Patent Office, Wellington, 14th June, 1927. H. T. Atkinson, Registrar.

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