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No. n Class. 1938. 1939. 1940. 1941. 1942. 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. 50 Medicines and surgical appliances (including ear38 26 30 27 18 39 35 64 32 instruments, dental work, &c.) 51 Metal-working (including welding, stamping, and 43 28 21 16 26 44 44 45 58 plating) 52 Milking-machines 71 83 59 38 25 17 16 22 16 53 Minerals (including filtration, lixiviation, screens, frn \ 15 12 7 3 5 5 6 2 3 54 Q&C.) Minerals (magnetic separators) 1 2 55 Minerals (stampers and pulverizers) 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 56 Oils and lubricators 29 23 14 9 13 17 21 18 13 57 Paints and painting (including kauri-gum) 15 5 5 7 17 24 18 13 8 58 Phonographs 3 3 2 4 1 2 4 9 59 Pipes, tubes, and hose 29 21 12 12 13 16 17 16 24 60 Preserving 12 10 9 13 3 5 5 6 5 61 Presses 7 5 11 1 2 6 6 16 7 62 Printing and photography 24 10 17 7 13 10 24 28 38 63 Pumps and sprayers (except rotary pumps) 13 18 17 15 13 11 20 27 25 64 Railways and tramways 18 17 6 5 7 18 12 6 8 65 Roads and ways (including road watering) 24 11 8 4 8 14 9 4 3 66 Seed-dressing, chaffcutting, and threshing 2 4 4 3 4 5 2 5 67 Seed-sowers 20 13 12 8 9 7 12 10 9 68 Sewing and knitting 26 27 35 23 11 19 19 28 27 69 Sheep and cattle (including veterinary appliances) 22 11 11 12 4 11 18 14 24 70 Sheep shearing and clipping 5 4 1 1 2 2 1 3 71 Shop and hotel fittings 25 11 11 10 1 5 5 3 7 72 Stationery and paper 31 28 26 18 23 28 29 18 55 73 Telephony and telegraphy 578 512 222 246 223 279 634 595 565 74 Tobacco 11 4 2 3 3 7 13 3 27 75 Valves and cocks 20 12 10 11 8 18 9 19 26 76 Vehicles 60 52 27 44 27 51 45 29 74 77 Vehicles (velocipedes) 5 12 11 13 18 25 19 47 30 78 Ventilating 7 5 6 10 6 6 1 3 8 79 Washing and cleaning 23 29 32 16 11 8 25 36 46 80 Water-supplying 5 5 2 7 2 6 12 4 6 81 Wearing-apparel 49 42 25 21 41 26 44 45 85 82 Wools and hides 5 2 10 10 11 8 9 9 16 83 Miscellaneous inventions not in other classes, as 20 18 20 12 19 38 33 93 108 indiarubber-manufacture, fishing-appliances, &c.