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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1937 Session I

INDEX TO APPENDIX TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOU S E 0 F I! E PRESENT A TIV ES, SECOND SESSION, TWENTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT.

VOLUME I, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, A—B. VOLUME 11, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, C—G. VOLUME 111, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, H—l.

NOTE.—Paper Number before Page Number.

ABORTION. See under HEALTH. ACCIDENT INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Annual report, H.-6a. ACCIDENTS— Aviation, H.-19, 11. Factories, 11. !I. 2. Mining and quarry, C.-2, 7. Public Works, D.-l, v, xi, 99. Railways, D.-2, xvii. Road and motor, H.-40, 18, 40, 54. ADMIRALTY CHARTS— H.-15, 11. ADVERTISING— Broadcasting service : Contracts, F.-3, 6. Internal Affairs Department, H.-22, 14. Primary Products Marketing Department, H.-30, 22. AERODROMES. See under AVIATION. AGREEMENTS— Between Public Works Department and— New Zealand Workers' Union, D.-l, i. Young Men's Christian Association, D.-l, ii. Trade, H.-14, 19. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL— Agricultural research. See under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. Cobalt treatment research, H.-34, 2. Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Cook Islands, A.-3, 9. Dairy Industry— Account : Reserve Bank of New Zealand report, 8.-16,3. Dairy Research Institute, H.-34, 8, 12. Department: Annual report, H.-29 — Chemistry Section : Report of Director— Branding-fluid, 11.-29, 50. Deficiency diseases and live-stock, 11.-29, 47. Fertilizers, H.-29, 49. Lemons : Borax treatment, H.-29, 50. Liming materials, H.-29, 49. Pampas grass, H.-29, 51. Samples from Fields Division experimental trials, H.-29, 50. Soils, H.-29, 49. Standards Institute, H.-29, 51. Stock licks, foods, and medicines, H.-29, 50. Suspected mineral deficiencies connected with plant diseases, H.-29, 48. Toxicological, H.-29, 50. Weed control, H.-29, 51.

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AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL —continued. Department—continued. Dairy Division : Report of Director— Butter, H.-29, 35, 36, 37. Casein, H.-29, 37. Certificate-or-record testing, H.-29, 40. Cheese, il. -29, 37. Check-testing suppliers' milk and cream samples at dairy factories, H . 29, 38. Cream-grading, H.-29, 38. Cool-storage temperatures, H.-29, 38. Dairy-factory managers, 1934, H.-29, 38. Dairy Laboratory, Wallaceville, H.-29, 39. Export values, H.-29, 35. Farm dairy instruction, H.-29, 38. Guaranteed prices, 11.-29, 35. Herd-testing, H.-29, 40. Inspection of New Zealand dairy-produce in Great Britain, H.-29, 38. Labour Department: Subsidy on dairy buildings and equipment, H.-29, 39. Legislation, H.-29, 39. Milk-grading, H.-29, 38. Milking-machines, H.-29, 38. Production, H.-29, 35. Prosecutions, H.-29, 39. Zoning, H.-29, 35. Director-General's report — Average efficiency, H.-29, 5. Animal health, H.-29, 4. Breeding stock, inferior, use of, H.-29, 4. Labour-costs, !i. 29, 3. Maintenance and increase in fertility, H.-29, 4. Regulations, H.-29, 5. Fields Division : Report of Director — Agricultural instruction, H.-29, 22. Arable crops, H.-29, 21. Artificial fertilizers, H.-29, 26. Departmental photography, H.-29, 28. Experimental farms and areas, li. 29, 23. Farmers' field competitions, H.-29, 27. Feed-flavour investigation, H.-29, 24. Fertilizers : Registration, !I . -29, 28. Field experimental work, H.-29, 24, 28. Flock House, H.-29, 27. Irrigation, H.-29, 26. Land-utilization, B. 29, 25. Meetings of Field Officers, H.-29, 26. Pig-feeding experiments, H.-29, 25. Phormium industry, H.-29, 28. Ruakura State Farm, H.-29, 23. Seeds, H.-29, 26, 27, 28, 33. j Weather conditions, H.-29, 21. Young farmers' clubs, ii. 29. 27.

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AGRICULTURAL AMD PASTORAL—continued. Department —continued. Horticulture Division : Report of Director— Bee-keeping industry, H.-29, 46. Cider-making, H.-29, 44. Fruit and vegetables : Local markets, H.-29, 42. Fruit: Cold storage, H.-29, 43. Fruit export, H.-29, 42. Fruitgrowing, H.-29, 41. Fruit, plants, &c., imported, H.-29, 43. Hop-culture, H.-29, 45. Instructional and experimental work, H.-29, 43. New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, H.-29, 45. Nurseries : Registration and inspection, H.-29, 45. Orchard registration and orchard-tax, H.-29, 45. Te Kauwhata Horticultural Station, H.-29, 44. Tobacco-culture, H.-29, 44. Tung oil, H.-29, 45. Viticulture and winemaking, H.-29, 44. Live-stock Division : Report of Director — Dairy inspection, H.-29, .10. Health of live-stock, H.-29, 6. Noxious weeds, H.-29, 14. Poultry, H.-29, 11. Rabbits : Nuisance, H.-29, 14. Stock— Exportation, H.-29, 11. Importation, H.-29, 11. Slaughter of, H.-29, 10. Statistics, H.-29, 10, 11. Wool, H.-29, 13. Minister's report— Dairying stock : Decrease in number, H.-29, 2. Farming industry : Supply of skilled labour, H.-29, 2. Flock House : Purchase by Government, H.-29, 2. Guaranteed prices, H.-29, 1. Live-stock research, H.-29, 2. Pig-production : Increase, H.-29, 2. Sheep : Increase in number, H.-29, 1. Wool-prices : Increase, H.-29, 1. Veterinary Laboratory, Wallaceville : Report of officer in charge, H.-29, 15. Education, Native, E.-3, 5. Empire Agricultural Council, proposal for the establishment of, A.-7, 20. Fertilizers : Price, &c., H.-46, 32. Fruit industry— Fruit-cold-storage research, H.-34, 57. Fruit research, H.-34, 10, 12. Investigation into marketing and handling of fruit and vegetables, H.-44, 30. Rarotongan fruit inquiry, H.-44, 31. Imperial Agricultural Research Bureau, H.-34, 80. Marketings—Primary products— Budget Statement — Dairy Industry Account, 8.-6, 8. Department, 8.-6, 7. Guaranteed price— Current year, 8.-6, 9. Origin, 8.-6, 8. High quality essential, 8.-6, 9. Internal— Butter and cheese, 8.-6, 12. Honey and eggs, 8.-6, 12. Local markets, 8.—6, 11. Picot Bros. : Acquisition, 8.-6, 11. New markets, 8.-6, 7. Season's results, 8.-6, 8. Shipping arrangements, 8.-6, 7. Success of policy, 8.-6, 7. Department: Annual report, H.-30 — Accounts— Annual, H.-30, 36, 39-45. Dairy companies, H.-30, 33. Advertising and publicity, H.-30, 22. Arrivals at United Kingdom ports, H.-30, 15. Butter — Consumption, H.-30, 21. Imports, H.-30, 30, 46. Prices, H.-30, 30, 50. Purchases, quality of, H.-30, 8. Cheese— Consumption, H.-30, 21. Imports, H.-30, 32, 46. Prices, H.-30, 30, 52. Purchases, quality of, H.-30, 9. Costs of— Dairy companies, H.-30, 33, 34. Farm working and maintenance, H.-30, 5.

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL —continued. Marketing —continued. Primary products—continued. Department—continued. Cold storage in United Kingdom, H.-30, 26. Dairy industry in Great Britain, H.-30, 20. Dairy-produce, purchase of, by Crown, H.-30, 4. Exports— From New Zealand ports, H.-30, 11. To west coast ports, United Kingdom, H.-30, 15, 47. F. 0.8. selling, H.-30, 19. Freight rates, H.-20, 26. Ghee, H.-30, 32. Gradings— 1935-36 and 1936-37, H.-30, 10. Quality percentages, H.-30, 8. Guaranteed prices, 1936-37 and 1937-38, H.-30, 7. Imports into United Kingdom— Butter, H.-30, 30, 46. Cheese, H.-30, 32, 46. Insurance rates, H.-30, 26. Internal Marketing Division, H.-30, 37. Margarine and butter consumption, H.-30, 21. Market conditions, 1936-37, H.-30, 28. Marketing methods — Effect of elimination of F. 0.8. sales, H.-30, 19. History of, H.-30, 11. Objective of Department, H.-30, 14. Payouts by dairy companies, H.-30, 33, 34. Prices— Average of eight to ten years for guaranteed-price basis, H.-30, 4. Guaranteed purchase, 1936-37 and 1937-38, H.-30, 7. In London, H.-30, 30. Trend, 1936-37, H.-30, 28. Paid and realized, H.-30, 36. Primary Products Marketing Act, H.-30, 3. Procedure of payment, &c., in New Zealand, H.-30, 9. Quality— Of produce purchased, H.-30, 8. Premiums for, H.-30, 7. Sales— In United Kingdom : Weekly graph, H.-30,12, 13. To ports outside United Kingdom, H.-30, 27. Shipments to — West coast ports, United Kingdom, H.-30, 15, 47. Outside markets, H.-30, 27. Shipping, H.-30, 24. Shipping inspection, H.-30, 25. Storage in United Kingdom, H.-30, 26. Store warrant advances, H.-30, 10. World trade in butter and cheese, H.-30, 49, 54. Investigation in marketing and handling of fruit and vegetables, H.-44, 30. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Onion-growing, H.-44, 29. Rural Intermediate Credit Board : Annual report, 8.-14. Sheep returns : Annual report, H.-23. Tobacco-growing, H.-44, 28. Growing and research, H.-34, 2 ; H.-44, 28. Western Samoa, A.-4, 24. Wheat — Wheat, flour, and bread: Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 28. Wheat Research Institute, H.-34, 9, 41. Woollen manufacturing, H.-34, 2. Woolpacks, H.-44, 31. AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ACT, 1936 H.-li, 17. ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY— Report, H.-22, 19. AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF RAILWAY SERVANTS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT— Report, H.-22, 6. APIA OBSERVATORY— Report, H.-34, 144. APPRENTICES. See under LABOUR — APPROPRIATIONS— Chargeable on the — Consolidated Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7. Public Works Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7 a.

APPROPRIATIONS —continued. Statement showing the issues from the — Consolidated Fund for the financial year, compared with sums voted under the Appropriation Act, 8.-l [Pt. I], 35. Public Works Fund for the financial year, compared with the sums voted under the Appropriation Act, 8.-l [Pt. I], 36. ARMS AND AMMUNITION— Armaments : Reduction and limitation, A.-5, 15. Arms Bureau, Police Department, H.-16, 6. ARMY. See under DEFENCE. ARNOLD, C. B.— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. ARTHUR PASS NATIONAL PARK BOARD— Annual report, C.-10, 6. ASHLEY RIVER IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 4. AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD LOAN AND EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.—16, 2. AUCKLAND METROPOLITAN MILK AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 3. AUCTIONEERS— Licenses granted, H.-22, 14. AUCTIONS— Auction system, fishing industry, 11.-44 a, 48-52, 62-63, 67-68. AUDITORS— Public, Friendly Societies, list of, H.-l, 7. AUSTRALIA— Trade with, H.-44, 7. AVIATION (see also under DEFENCE) — Aerodromes : Construction, D.-l, ii, vi, xxxi, 59. Air-mail services— England-Australia, F.-l, 6, 19. Inland, F.-l, 6, 19. Proposed Pacific service, F.-l, 7. Civil: Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 17. Commercial air transport, H.—4o, 27. Touring by air, H.-2, 3. BANKING AND CURRENCY— Bank of New Zealand Balance-sheet for the year, 8.-15. New Zealand trading banks : Position, 8.-16, 4. Post-office Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 21, 35, 36. Reserve Bank of New Zealand — And the public debt, 8.-6, 18. Annual report and statement of accounts, 8.-16. RANKS, E. C.— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3. BARNES, H.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. BATE, A.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. BEAUMONT, J. S.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. BELGIUM— Treaty of mutual guarantee between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Italy, A.-sb, 22. BLACK, W.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. BLIND PEOPLE— Children : Education, F.-4, 13. Pensions, H.-18, 5. BLINKHORNE, J. B.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. BOARD OF NATIVE AFFAIRS. See under NATIVE AFFAIRS.

BOARD OF TRADE (FERTILIZER) REGULATIONS, 1936— H.-44, 32. BOOKMAKERS— Prosecutions against, H.-16, 3. BORDEN, LATE SIR ROBERT— Death of, A.-7, 7. BOROUGH OF NGARUAWAHIA EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 2. BORSTALS. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS. BOUNDARIES COMMISSION. See REPRESENTATION COMMISSION. BOURNE, A. M. P.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. BRIDGES. See under PUBLIC WORKS. BRITISH WEST INDIES— Trade with, H.-44, 12. BROADCASTING— Aeradio services, F.-l, 10. Aeradio Standing Committee, F.-l, 10. Commercial service : Budget statement, 8.-6, 17. Cook Islands, A.-3, 12. National Broadcasting Service —Annual report, F.-3 — Finance — Accounts — National Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 7. National Commercial Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 8. New Zealand Broadcasting Board, F.-3, 6. Advertising contracts, F.-3, 6. Commercial Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 5. Repairs and maintenance, F.-3, 5. Revenue Account, F.-3, 5. Salaries and wages, F.-3, 6. Travelling-expenses, F.-3, 5. Hours of transmission, F.-3, 2. News, F.-3, 3. Percentage of licenses to population, F.-3, 1. Programmes, F.-3, 2. Analysis, F.-3, 4. Special recording, F.-3, 4. Receiving-licenses, F.-3, 1. Special services, F.-3, 3. Subsidized private broadcasting stations, F.-3, 4. Technical, F.-3, 4. Inventions relating to — Radio, H.-10, 2. Television, H.-10, 2. National Service : Budget statement, 8.-6, 17. Niue Island, A.-6, 6. Overseas radio-telephone service, F.-l, 10. Press telegram service— Additional facilities on Sundays, F.-l, 24. Tonga and New Zealand, F.-l, 24. Private stations : Budget statement, 8.-6, 17. Radio-dealers' licenses, F.-l, 32. Radio-telegram and radio-telephone business transacted during the year compared with previous year, F.-l, 39. Radio-telegraph and radio-telephone services, F.-l, 26. Radio-telegram rates to ships at sea, F.-l, 24. Poste radio-telegram service and substitution of ship letter-telegram service, F.-l, 24. Reception, interference with, F.-l, 32. Service, F.-l, 11, 32. Stations — Cook Islands, Northern group : Installation, F.-l, 27. Pacific Islands : Opening, F.-l, 24. Private, F.-l, 32. Experimental, F.-l, 32. Receiving-station licenses, F.-l, 32. To schools, F.-2, 5. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. BUDGET— Financial Statement — Budgetary position for year 1937-38 : Expenditure— Annual votes, 8.-6, 20. Assistance for country libraries, 8.-6, 20. Comparative, 8.-6, 22. Debt charges, 8.-6, 20.

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BUDGET —continued. Financial Statement —continued. Budgetary position, &c.—continued. Defence, 8.-6, 21. Education, 8.-6, 20. Health, 8.-6, 21. League of Nations, 8.-6, 21. Physical education, 8.-6, 21. Police, 8.-6, 22. Radio beacons, 8.-6, 22. Social-service policy, 8.-6, 21. Summary, 8.-6, 19. Debt, public— Domicile, 8.-6, 19. Increase, 8.-6, 18. London conversions, 8.-6, 19. New Zealand conversion operations, 8.-6, 19. Redemption, 8.-6, 18. Reserve Bank of New Zealand and State Advances Corporation, 8.-6, 18. Southland Electric-power Board, 8.-6, 18. Employment promotion— Fund, 8.-6, 2. Public works, 8.-6, 2. Secondary industries, 8.-6, 2. Higher overseas prices, 8.-6, 1. Housing— Contracts for erection of houses, 8.-6, 4. Expenditure, 8.-6, 5. Housing Department construction, 8.-6, 4. Housing survey, 8.-6, 4. Improvement in the Dominion, 8.-6, 1. Industrial efficiency— Bureau of Industry, 8.-6, 12. Overlapping of industries, 8.-6, 12. Price-fixation, 8.-6, 13. Standards Institute, 8.-6, 13. Marketing primary products— Dairy Industry Account, 8.-6, 8. Department, 8.-6, 7. Guaranteed price— Current year, 8.-6, 9. Origin, 8.-6, 8. High quality essential, 8.-6, 9. Internal — Butter and cheese, 8.-6, 12. Honey and eggs, 8.-6, 12. Local markets, 8.-6, 11. Picot Bros. : Acquisition, 8.-6, 11. New markets, 8.-6, 7. Season's results, 8.-6, 8. Shipping arrangements, 8.-6, 7. Success of policy, 8.-6, 7. Mortgage finance — Adjustments effected to date, 8.-6, 6. Lending rates, 8.-6, 6. Local authorities, 8.-6, 6. Mortgage Adjustment Commissions, 8.-6, 5. New loan-moneys, 8.-6, 6. State Advances Corporation, 8.-6, 6. Uneconomic areas, 8.-6, 6. Overseas negotiations — Defence, foreign affairs, &c., 8.-6, 11. Financial policy, 8.-6, 11. Further negotiations, 8.-6, 11. New industries, 8.-6, 11. Offer to United Kingdom Government, 8.-6, 10. Quota allocations, 8.-6, 10. Prosperous conditions, 8.-6, 1. Public Accounts — Commercial Broadcasting, 8.-6, 17. National Broadcasting Service, 8.-6, 17. Private stations, 8.-6, 17. Salaries and wages, 8.-6, 16. Social services, 8.-6, 17. Summary of year's transactions, 8.-6, 16. Surplus for year, 8.-6, 16. Public works — Government Buildings centre, 8.-6, 14. Hydro-electricity development, 8.-6, 15. Lands-improvement, 8.-6, 15. Level-crossings elimination, 8.-6, 14. Planning necessary, 8.-6, 13. Public buildings, 8.-6, 14. Railway-construction, 8.-6, 13. Roads and highways, 8.-6, 14. Scope of, 8.-6, 13. Small-farms scheme, 8.-6, 15. Source of funds, 8.-6, 16.

BUDGET —continued. Financial Statement —continued. Revenue — Highways revenue, 8.-6, 23. Income-tax revision, 8.-6, 23. Interest receipts, 8.-6, 23. Land-tax, 8.-6, 23. Sales tax, 8.-6, 23. Stamp and death duties, 8.-6, 23. Summary of, 8.-6, 23. Wages and salries restoration— Higher overseas costs, 8.-6, 3. Increased pensions, 8.-6, 4. Increased salaries and wages, 8.-6, 3. Prospectus of State Advances Corporation local loan, 8.-6, xix. Tables— No. 1 : Abstract of receipts and expenditure of the financial year ended 31st March, 1937. See Public Accounts, 8.-l [Pt. I]. No. 2 : The public debt on 31st March, 1937. See Public Accounts, 8.-l [Pt. lII]. No. 3 : Revenue for the year ended 31st March, 1937, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, ii. No. 4 : Comparative statement of the estimated and actual revenue of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-6, iii. No. 5 : Estimated revenue for 1937-38, compared with the actual revenue for 1936-37, 8.-6, iv. No. 6 : Stamp and death duty revenue for the year ended 31st March, 1937, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, iv. No. 7 : Statement of the Customs duties collected for 1936-37, compared with 1935-36, 8.-6, v. No. 8 : Statement of the actual net expenditure of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1937, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, v. No. 9 : Comparative statement of the appropriated and actual expenditure of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-6, vii. No. 10 : Estimated net expenditure for 1937-38, compared with the actual net expenditure for 1936-37, 8.-6, ix. No. 11 : Public Works Fund —Statement showing net expenditure under appropriations for the year ended 31st March, 1937, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, x. No. 12 : Statement showing the total ways and means of the Public Works Fund, General Purposes Account, and the total net expenditure to 31st March, 1937, 8.-6, xi. No. 13 : Statement showing the amount charged to unauthorized " in each financial year from Ist April 1926, to 31st March, 1937, 8.-6, xii. No. 14: Statement showing the available financial resources of the various accounts on the 31st March, 1937, as compared with the 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, xiii. No. 15 : Statement of amounts paid on account of pensions for the financial years ended 31st March, from 1933 to 1937, 8.-6, xiii. No. 16 : Education expenditure—Total expenditure on education out of public funds since 1913-14, 8.-6, xiv. No. 17 : State balance-sheet as at 31st March, 1936, 8.-6, xv. No. 18 : Statement of half-yearly instalments of principal and interest for repayment of debt funded with Imperial Government, 8.-6, xvi. No. 19 : Statement showing maturity dates and domicile of debt outstanding as at 31st March, 1937, 8.-6, xvii. No. 20: Statement showing values of imports and exports of the Dominion in each financial year ended 31st March, from 1931 to 1937, 8.-6, xvii. No. 21 : Table showing improvement in economic conditions, 8.-6, xviii. BUILDINGS, PUBLIC. See under PUBLIC WORKS. BULGARIA— Kingdom of Bulgaria stabilization loan, A.-sb, 9. BUREAU OF INDUSTRY. See under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. BURNE, M. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3.

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BUTTER. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. CABLES. See under POST AND TELEGRAPH. CALENDAR REFORM— A.-88, 22. CAMPBELL, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. CANADA— Canadian National Exhibition, H.-44, 20. Trade with, H.-44, 8. CAPPER, E. N.— Report on petition of, 1.-4, 2. CARILLION. See under NATIONAL ART GALLERY AND DOMINION MUSEUM. CARNEGIE CORPORATIONGrant to National Art Gallery, H.-21, 5. CATTLE. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. CAWTHRON INSTITUTE TRUST BOARD RATING EXEMPTION (No. 2) BILL Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 4. CEMENT— Price, &c., H.-44, 32. CENSUS AND STATISTICS Pishing industry, H. 44a, 95. Western Samoa, A.-4, 6, 26, 27. CENTENNIAL OF NEW ZEALAND H.-44, 34. CHALMERS, J. M. - Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. CHANDLER, A. I.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. CHARTERED CLUBS— Inspection, &c., H. 22, 14. CHATTELS TRANSFER ACT, 1924 Report, H.-44, 33. CHEESE. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL CHILD WELFARE. See under EDUCATION. CHILLINGWORTH, E.M.— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. CHRISTCHURCH DOMAINS AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 3 ; 1.-16, 4. CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY BOARD EMPOWERING BILL Select Committee report on, 1.-l 6, 3. CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS ACT— H.-22, 18. CIVIL AVIATION. See AVIATION CLINTON, W. A., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 3. COAL-MINES AMENDMENT BILL— Sleet Committee, report on, 1.-4, 2. COAL-MINING. See under MINING INDUSTRY. COCKBURN, W. R.— Report on petition of, 1.-10, I. COLONIAL AFFAIRS - Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 13. COMMERCIAL BROADCASTING. See under BROADCASTING.

COMMITTEES— Select: Reports on Bills, petitions, &c. — Agricultural and Pastoral— Cockburn, W. R., 1.-10, 1. Pinal report, 1.-10, 2. Perrelle, de la, L. G„ and others, 1.-10, 1. Special reports, 1.-10, 2. Defence— Bate, A., 1.-12, 2, Beaumont, J. S., 1.-12, 2. Bourne, A. M. P., 1.-12, 2. Clinton, W. A., and others, 1.-12, 3. Pinal report, 1.-12, 4. Houghton, M. H., 1.-12, 2. Hughes, J., 1.-12, 2. Martin, C. A. B„ 1.-12, 3. Matthews, E. M., 1,— 12, 3. Sayers, L„ 1.-12, 2. Schramm, P. W., and others, 1.-12, 3. Special reports, 1.-12, 4. Turnbull, W. McG., 1.-12, 3. Wilson, J. J., 1.-12, 2. Education— Arnold, C. B„ 1.-8, 2. Chillingworth, E. M., I,— B, 2. Da vies, A. B„ 1.-8, 2. Final report, 1.-8, 3. Mackenzie, J. S., 1.-8, 2. Marrayat, E., 1.-8, 2. Schultz, M„ 1.-8, 2. Special reports, 1.-8, 2, 3. Goldfields and Mines— Capper, E. M., 1.-4, 2. Coal-mines Amendment Bill, 1.-4, 2. Pinal report, 1.-4, 3. Pinlayson, I. G., i. I. 2. Mining Amendment Bill, 1.—4, 2. Petroleum Bill, 1.-4, 2. Sarich, W. C., 1.-4, 2. Special reports, 1.-4, 2. Labour Bills— Drew, G. W„ 1.-9, 2. Pinal report, 1.-9, 2. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill (No. 2), 1.-9, 1. Marsick, M., 1.-9, 2. New Zealand Institute of Clerks of Works Bill, 1.-9. 1. Special reports, 1.-9, 2. Lands— Banks, E. C., 1.-5, 3. Christchurch Domains Amendment Bill, 1.-5, 3. Dillon, M., 1.-5, 2. Pinal report, 1.-5, 4. Harris, T., 1.-5, 3. Jordan, J. B„ and another, 1.-5, 4. New Plymouth Airport Bill, 1.-5, 2. Reserves and other Lands Disposal Bill, 1.-S, 3. Silcock, J. W., and others, 1.-5, 2. Smyth, W. C., 1.-5, 3. Special reports, 1.-5, 2. Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill, 1.-5, 3. Whangarei Airport Bill, 1.-5, 2. Wheeler, H. C., 1.-5, 3, 4. Local Bills— Ashley River Improvement Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 4. Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 2. Auckland Metropolitan Milk Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 3. Borough of Ngaruawahia Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 2. Cawthron Institute Trust Board Rating Exemption Bill (No. 2), 1.-16, 4. Christchurch Domains Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 4. Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Bill, 1.—16, 3. Dunedm City Corporation (Suburban Water Charges) Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 4. Dunedin City Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 3. Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Bill, 1,-16, 3. Pinal Report, 1.-16, 4. Hamilton Borough Council Empowering Amendment Bill, 1.—16, 4. Joyce, S., and others, 1.-16, 4. Local Legislation Bill, 1.—16, 4. Motueka Borough Council Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 2. Napier Harbour Board Loan Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 3. New Plymouth Airport Bill, 1.-16, 2.

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COMMITTEES —continued. Select —continued. Local Bills—continued. New Plymouth Borough Council Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 2. Special reports, 1.-16,- 4. Taupiri Drainage and River District Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 3. Thames Valley Drainage Board Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 3. Timaru Harbour Board Loan Amendment Bill, 1.-l 6, 3. Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 2. Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill, 1.-16, 4. Whangarei Airport Bill, 1.-16, 2. Local Government (Amalgamation Schemes) Bill— Local Government (Amalgamation Schemes) Bill, 1.-6, 2. Special report, 1.-6, 2. Native Affairs— Araukuuku Block, 1.-3, 10. Bruce Bay, 1.-3, 3. Confiscated lands, 1.-3, 10. Confiscated land in Taranaki, 1.-3, 9. Dan te Koeti, 1.-3, 3. Be East Coast Commissioner, 1.-3, 12. East Coast Native Trust Land : Mangatu Nos. 1, 3, and 4 Blocks, 1.-3, 11. East Coast Native Trust Lands, 1.-3, 11. Electoral Amendment Bill, 1.-3, 7. Pinal report, 1.-3, 13. George Tuuta and 34 others, 1.-3, 3. Haki Karawana, 1.-3, 6. Hemi Matenga (deceased), will of, 1.-3, 8. Hemi Matenga (deceased), 1.-3, 11. Hereheretau A Block. 1.-3, 3. Hirschberg, G. A., 1.-3, 7. Hoani Maihana and 7 others, 1.-3, 7. Hovell, H. K„ 1.-3, 4. Kahariki Gravel Reserve, 1.-3, 3. Kaka Porowini and 7 others, 1.-3, 7. Karanga te Kere, 1.-3, 8. Kawerau Block, 1.-3, 6. Kauhouroa Block, 1.-3, 4. Longbush, 1.-3, 7. Mangarewa-Kaharoa Block, 1.-3, 9. Mangakowhara Block, 1.-3, 7. Manutahi A 26 Block, 1.-3, 12. Maria Rimaha and 2 others, 1.-3, 9. Marriner, G., and 92 others, 1.-3, 10. Marriner, G., 1.-3, 10. Marriner G., and 3 others, 1.-3, 10. Matata, Lot 39, Parish of, 1.-3, 6. Mere te Iwingaro Wairama and 22 others, 1.-3, 12. Mutu Karaitiana, 1.-3, 4. Native Purposes Bill, Ī.-3, 10. Ngahina Tiwai Pomare and 2 others, 1.-3, 6. Ngapera Parata and 7 others, 1.-3, 8. Ngohengohe Taera, 1.-3, 3. Otautu No. 17, 1.-3, 5. Pahautea Block, 1.-3, 3. Pahou Block, 1.-3, 7. Palmerston North Reserves, 1.-3, 11. Pararautini Block, 1.-3, 9. Peraniko Rakuku, successors to, 1.-3, 5. Petitions held over, list of, 1.-3, 14. Petroleum Bill, 1.-3, 6. Pirihira Karena and another, 1.-3, 11. Pohare Lake, 1.-3, 8. Popoutahi Block, 1.-3, 4. Potikai leni Tapihana, 1.-3, 5. Pomare Estate, 1.-3, 6. Pukemahoe Block, 1.-3, 8. Rangi Huna Pere and 5 others, 1.-3, 9. Reiha Tangotango and another, 1.-3, 9. Rititia Irihei, 1.-3, 3. Ruamahanga River, 1.-3, 8. Rutene Tuhi and 27 others, 1.-3, 12. Rutene Tuhi and 12 others, 1.-3, 12. Special reports, 1.-3, 13. Tamati Moeau and another, 1.-3, 7. Tapatu-Waitangirua Block, 1.-3, 4. Tarehurangi te Waari, 1.-3, 5. Te Hikonga Anaru and 25 others, 1.-3, 8. Te Kata Tamihana, 1.-3, 6. Te Kata Tamihana and another, 1.-3, 6. Te Koutu B Block, 1.-3, 5. Te Kupe Wharekura, 1.-3, 12. Te Rauna Hape and 24 others, 1.-3, 4.

COMMlTTEES—continued Select —continued. Native Affairs —continued. Te Rauna Hape and 202 others, 1.-3, 4. Te Rauna Hape and 64 others, 1.-3, 3. Te Whanga Lagoon, 1.-3, 3. Titi te Ikawaewae Kupenga and 22 others, 1.-3, 8. Tukumaru Webber, 1.-3, 11. Tupito Maruera and others, 1.-3, 5. Tutawa Paraeroa and others, 1.-3, 5. Umuhika Block, 1.-3, 6. Waaka te Arakai and others, 1.-3, 11. Waewae Tutange (deceased), will of, 1.-3, 5. Wharewaka Reserve, 1.-3, 11. Wiremu Naera Pomare (deceased), estate of, 1.-3, 6. Wiremu Utatangata Taipua and another, 1.-3, 9. Public Accounts — Pinal report, 1.-14, 1. Special reports, 1.-14, 1. Public Health— Pinal report, 1.-7, 2. Health Amendment Bill, 1.-7, 2. Lennox, S. K., 1.-7, 1. Special reports, 1.-7, 2. Trotter, N. E., and others, 1.-7, 1. Public Petitions A to L— Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, 1.-l, 5, Barnes, H., 1.-l, 4. Black, W., 1.-l, 2. Blinkhorne, J. 8., 1.-l, 2. Burne, M. E., 1.-l, 3. Campbell, J., 1.-l, 3. Chalmers, J. M., 1.-l, 4. Chandler, A. 1., 1.-l, 3. Cook, H. H., 1.-l, 4. Cornelius, J., and 788 others, 1.-l, 3. Cosgrove, E., 1.-l, 3. Costar, H. W., 1.-l, 4. Coward, W., 1.-l, 3. Cruickshank, J. A., 1.-l, 4. Dalhousie, R. H., 1.-l, 2. Davey, M., 1.-l, 5. Dineen, J., 1.-l, 2. Pearnley, P. H., 1.-l, 3. Pinal report, 1.-l, 6. Fraser, A. A., and 5 others, 1.-l, 3. Graham, S., and 8 others, 1.-l, 6. Gregory, C. E., 1.-l, 2. Hart, J. A., 1.-l, 2. Hawke, H., 1.-l, 3. Hogg, C. H., 1.-l, 4. Hunt, P. E., 1.-l, 4. Hutton, C., 1.-l, 5. Jamieson, R. P., 1.-l, 2. Johnson, A. 8., 1.-l, 5. Jordan, F. C., and another, 1.-l, 4. Kirk, J., 1.-l, 5. Kostanich, M., 1.-l, 2. Mclnnes, J., 1.-l, 5. Miles, I. A., 1.-1, 4. Neilson, K., 1.-l, 5. Smith, G. V., and 10 others, 1.-l, 3. Special reports, 1.-l, 6. Tapper, A. M., 1.-l, 5. Walders, J., 1.-l, 5. Public Petitions M to Z— Final report, 1.-2, 4. Meikle, J. J., 1-2, 2. Milligan, C. E., 1.-2, 2. MeCardle, K. J. 8., 1.-2, 2. Nolan, M., 1.-2, 4. Onyon, C., 1.-2, 3. O'Shea, P. J., 1.-2, 4. Payne, J., 1.-2, 3. Pilling, M., 1.-2, 3. Piatt, A., L-2,2. Sadler, S., 1.-2, 3. Shanks, A. F., 1.-2, 2. Saunders, E., and another, 1.-2, 2. Shaw, A., 1.-2, 4. Simpson, T. F., 1.-2, 3. Singh, Bachint, 1.-2, 3. Smith, J. P. 8., and others, 1.-2, 2. Smith, P. 0. 1.-2 3. Taylor, E. S., 1.-2, 4. Taylor, W. D, and another, 1.-2, 4. Traill, F. H. W., and others, 1.-2, 2. Trewby, H., 1.-2, 2. Wilkin, A. A., 1.-2, 3.

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COMPANIES— Company promotion, fishing industry, H.-44a, 31, 46. Receivership and liquidation, A.-9, 1936, 5. CONSOLIDATED FUND— Appropriations chargeable on the Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7. Comparative statement of the appropriated and actual expenditure of the Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year, 8.-6, vii. Comparative statement of the estimated and actual revenue of the Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the year, 8.-6, iii. Statement of the actual net expenditure of the Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year compared with previous years, 8.-6, v. Statement showing the issues from the Fund for the financial year, compared with sums voted under Appropriation Act, 8.-l [Pt. I], 35. COOK, H. H.Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. COOK ISLANDS— Annual report— Agriculture, A.-3, 9. Education, A.-3, 6-8. Finance, A.-3, 1. Balance-sheet, A.-3, 22. Income and Expenditure Account, A.-3, 21. Justice and Prisons — High Court, Rarotonga, A.-3, 11. Native Land Court, A.-3, 12. Medical and public health, A.-3, 2-6. Meteorological, A.-3, 14. Migration, A.-3, 6. Northern Cook group : Extracts from annual reports of Agents, A.-3, 17-20. Police, A.-3, 13. Post and Telegraph service, A.-3, 12. Wireless, A.-3, 12. Public Works, A.-3, 8. Shipping, A.-3, 2. Southern Cook group : Extracts from annual reports of Agents, A.-3, 14-17. Trade, A.-3, 1, 2— Exports for year ended 31st December, 1936, A.-3, 1, 27-28. Imports for year ended 31st December, 1936, A.-3, 1, 23-27. Vital statistics, A.-3, 5. Northern group : Installation of radio-stations, F.-l, 27. Trade with, H.-44, 15. COPYRIGHT— H.-32. 3. CORNELIUS, J., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. CORONATION— New Zealand Army contingent to, H.-19, 4. COSGROVE, E. Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. COSTAR, H. W.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. COST OF LIVING Report, H.-44, 24. COUNTRY LIBRARIES. See under LIBRARIES. COWARD, W.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. CRIMES. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS, also POLICE. CRUICKSRANK, J. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. CUSTOMS— Cost of collecting Customs and other revenue by the Customs Department : Return for the year, 8.-12. Duties : Statement showing amount collected during the year compared with previous year, 8.-6, v. Western Samoa, A.-4-, 9.

DAIRYING INDUSTRY. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. DALHOUSIE, R. H.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, "2, DANZIG— Free City of. League of Nations report concerning, A.-sb, 11, 24. DAVEY, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. DAVIES, A. B.t— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. DEBT, PUBLIC— Budget Statement — Domicile, 8.-6, 19. Funded with Imperial Government, statement of halfyearly instalments of principal and interest for repayment of, 8.-6, xvi. Increase, 8.-6, 18. London conversions, 8.-6, 19. Maturity dates and domicile of debt outstanding, statement showing, 8.-6, xvii. New Zealand conversion operations, 8.-6, 19. Redemptions, 8.-6, 18. Reserve Bank of New Zealand and State Advances Corporation, 8.-6, 18. Southland Electric-power Board, 8.-6, 18. Management, 8.-16, 3. Repayment: Report and accounts of the Public Debt Commission for the year, 8.-2. DEEDS REGISTRATION. See under LANDS TRANSFER AND DEEDS REGISTRATION. DEER - Destruction, H.-22, 11. DEFENCE— Armaments : Reduction, A.-5, 15. Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEE. Expenditure, 8.-6, 21. Fishing trawlers, value of, Defence purposes, H.-44a, 11. Forces — Military : Annual report — Air Forces- — Aircraft and equipment, H.-19, 5. Air Department: Formation, fl.-l 9, 6. Civil aviation— Accidents, H.-19, 11. Aero-club movements, H.-19, 9. Aerodromes, H.-19, 9. Aircraft inspection, H.-19, 10. Certificates of air-worthiness, H.-19, 10. Certificates of registration, H.-19, 10. Ground engineers, H.-19, 11. Light aero-clubs, training : Summary of statistics, H.-19, 10. Meteorological, H.-19, 9. Radio services, H.-19, 9. Regular aircraft services, H.-19, 11. New Zealand Air Force, H.-19, 5. Royal New Zealand Air Force, H.-19, 5. Aerodromes, H.-19, 6. Army reorganization, H.-19, 1. Coast defences, H.-19, 4. Coronation contingent, 11. -19. 4. Defence buildings, offices, barracks, &c. — Existing buildings, H.-19, 7. New buildings, H.-19, 7. Finance, H.-19, 7. Expenditure during last six years, 11.-19, 9. Mechanization, H.-19, 3. New Zealand Regular Forces — Casualties, H.-19, 2. Commands and staff, H.-19, 2. Military education, H.-19, 2. Strength, H.-19, 8. Ordnance services, H.-19, 7. Rifle clubs, H.-19, 8. Territorial Forces — Cadets, H.-19, 2, 8. Commands and staff, H.—l9, 2. Strength, H.-19, 2, 8. Territorial Force Associations, H.-19, 5,

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DEFENCE—continued. Forces —continued. Military—continued. Training— Cadet Forces, H.-19, 3. Regular Flrces, H.-19, 3. Territorial Forces, H.-19, 3. Naval: Annual reportCivilian employees, H.-5, 2. Drills, exercises, and training afloat, H.-5, 4. H.M.S. " Philomel," H.-5, 4. H.M.S. "Wakakura," H.-5, 4. Naval Armament Depot, H.-5, 4. Naval Base, H.-5, 4. Personnel— Active service, H.-5, 1. Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division), H.-5, 2. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division), H.-5, 2. Proceedings— Cruisers, H.-5, 2. Sloops, H.-5, 3. R.F.A. " Nucula," H.-5, 4. State, H.-5, 1. Visits of foreign warships, H.-5, 4. Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 9. Overseas negotiations, 8.-6, 11. Western Samoa, A.-4, 17. Works : Construction, &c., D.-l, 69. DE LA PERRELLE, L. G.See PERRELLE DE LA, L. G. DENTAL HYGIENE. See under HEALTH. DESIGNS. See PATENTS, DESIGNS, AMD TRADE-MARKS. DINEEN, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS SETTLEMENT. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. DISEASES. See under HEALTH. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS— H.-22, 14. DOMINION LABORATORY. See under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. DOMINION MUSEUM. See NATIONAL ART GALLERY AND DOMINION MUSEUM. DOMINION OBSERVATORY. See under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. See under LANDS. DREW, G. W.— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2. DRUGS. See LIQUOR AND DRUGS. DRUNKENNESS. See under POLICE. DUNEDIN CITY CORPORATION (SUBURBAN WATER CHARGES) EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-l 6, 4. DUNEDIN CITY EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1,— 16, 3. DUNEDIN DISTRICT DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1,— 16, 3. DUTCH EAST INDIES— New steamship line to, H.-44, 19. EAST COAST NATIVE TRUST LANDS. See under NATIVE AFFAIRS. EASTERN MARKETS— Trade with, H.-44, 17. EDUCATION— Canterbury Agricultural College, research work at, H.-34,81. Child welfare, A.-5, 22.

EDUCATION —continued. Child welfare, State care of children, special schools, and infant-life protection : Annual report, E. !— Child welfare— Minister of Education—Extract from annual report: Children under supervision, number of, E.-4, 1. Statement of the Superintendent, Child Welfare Branch— Admissions classified according to— Parents, circumstances, and character (arranged in families), E.-4, 11. Religious beliefs, E.-4, 12. Adoptions, E.-4, 9. Blind children, E.-4, 13. Boarding-out or placement of children in. private homes, E. -i, 3. Cases appearing before Children's Courts, E.-4, 6, 7. Children admitted and removed from licensed fosterhomes during the year : Particulars, E.-4, 9. Children and young persons under the guardianship of the Superintendent: Status, E.-4, 10. Children before the Courts during the year, and placed under the supervision of Child Welfare Officers, E.-4, 10. Children in residence in private orphanages, E.-4, 9. Children's homes, list of, E.-4, 15. Child Welfare Officers, E.-4, 2. Committals and admissions during the year, E.-4, 10. Costley Trust, E.-4, 6. Higher education, E.-4, 5. Illegitimacy, E.-4, 14. Infant-life protection, E.-4, 8. Inmates discharged from control during year, E.-4, 12. Institutions, E.-4, 3. Institutions for backward children, numbers at, E.-4, 12. Legislation during year, E.-4, 6. Nature of employment, E.-4, 8. Placement of children in situations, and the allocation of their earnings, E.-4, 4. Preventive cases, E.-4, 8. Preventive work, E.-4, 7. Primary education, E.-4, 5. Private organizations, E.-4, 6. Reports to Children's Courts, E.-4, 5. School for the Deaf, E.-4, 13, 14. Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEE. Cook Islands, A. 8, 6-8. Dominion Museum : Lectures to school-children, H.- 21, 10. Expenditure, 8.-6, 20. Total out of public funds since 1913-14, 8.-6, xiv. Health, H.-31, 7. Dental, H.-31, 36. School hygiene : Report of Director, H.-31, 22. Higher : Annual report, E.-7 — Candidates successful for degrees, E.-7, 4. Courses taken by students, E.-7, 2. Scholarships, bursaries, &c., E.-7, 3. Students on the books of University Colleges, E.-7, 2. Subjects taken by students, E.-7, 3. Universities : Reports and accounts of the University of New Zealand and constituent colleges— Auckland, E.-7, 9. Canterbury, E.-7, 20. Otago, E.-7, 26. University of New Zealand, E.-7, 5. Victoria, E.-7, 15. Intellectual co-operation, A.-sb, 18. Milk in schools, H.- 31, 6, 25. Minister of : Annual report, E.-l— Attendance : Regularity, E.-l, 18. Child welfare, E.-l, 41. Classes— Evening technical and part-time day, E.-l, 33. Size of, E.-l, 20. Special for backward children, E.-l, 32. Education — Cost of, E.-l, 8. Higher (University), E.-l, 38. Educational institutions : Enrolments, E.-l, 11. Examinations, annual, E.-l, 39. Finance : Statement of expenditure and recoveries, &c., E.-l, 43. Intermediate school, E.-l, 33. Introductory and general, E.-l, 2. Manual instructions, E.-l, 37. Physical education, E.-l, 37.

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I■' I H EDUCATlON—continued. Minister of: Annual report—continued. Post primary— Education, E.-l, 33. Free places, E.-l, 32. Length of course, E.-l, 31. Primary : Manual training, E.-l, 2. Private, registered— Primary, E.-l, 34. Secondary, E.-l, 35. Pupils— Commencing post-primarv course in State schools, E.-l, 26. Conveyance, E.-l, 36. Destination, E.-l, 27. Leaving public primary school, E.-l, 26. Number of, and adult teachers, in the public primary schools of the different education districts, E.-l, 20. School music, E.-l, 37. Schools — Buildings and sites, E.-l, 9. Consolidation of, E.-l, 36. Correspondence, E.-l, 35. Kindergartens, E.-l, 36. Intermediate and departments, E.-l, 33. Native, E.-l, 34. Number, E.-l, 10. Staffs of, E.-l, 18. Types of, E.-l, 8. Teachers — Classification, E.-l, 21. Number of adult teachers in the public primary schools of the different education districts, E.-l, 20. Salaries, E.-l, 2, 24. Superannuation Fund, E.-l, 42. Training of, E.-l, 38. Vocational guidance and placement, E.-l, 30. Native— Native children—Annual report: Report of Inspector of Native Schools, E.-3— Ages and standards, E.-3, 11. Agricultural, E.-3, 5. Attendance, E.-3, 6. Buildings, E.-3, 7. English, arithmetic, and social studies, E.-3, 5, 6. Native education—Aesthetic activities, E.-3, 4. Arts and crafts, E.-3, 4. Conference on, in Pacific countries, Honolulu, E.-3, 3. Scope of, E.-3, 1. Pacific Islands inspections, E.-3, 7. Proficiency examination, E.-3, 7, 10. Scholarships, E.-3, 6, 9. Schools — Maori Mission, E.-3, 6. Maori Mission and Maori secondary : Rolls, E.-3, 8. Maori secondary, &c. : Number of Maori pupils attending, E.-3, 9. Native, number of, classified according to grade, &c., E.-3, 8. Native village : Roll and average attendance, E.-3, 8. Public— Maori children at, E.-3, 9, 10. Classification, E.-3, 10. Secondary education, E.-3, 6. Staff, E.-3, 7. Teachers— Native schools : Certificates held by, E.-3, 12. Refresher courses, E.-3, 3. Training, E.-3, 3. New Zealand Road Safety Council, H.-40, 41, 45. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Physical, 8.-6, 21. Primary and post primary, Annual report, E.-2— Report of Chief Inspector of Primary Schools — Curricula, E.-2, 8. Environment, E.-2, 6. Examinations, E.-2, 8. Pupils and schools : Increased allowances, E.-2, 9. Safety-first education, E.-3, 6. Schools — Broadcasting to, E.-2, 5. Consolidated, E.-2, 4. Correspondence, E.-2, 5. District high, E.-2, 4. Intermediate, E.-2, 4. Special classes, E.-2, 5. lI—H.

EDUCATION —continued. Primary and post primary, Annual report —continued. Report of Chief Inspector of Primary Schools —continued. Teachers — Grading, E.-2, 3. On exchange, E.-ss, 6. Surplus, E.-2, 3. Training colleges, E.-2, 2. Visual training, E.-2, 6. Report of Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools— Free places and leaving certificates, E.-2, 7. Routine work, E.-2, 6. Staff, E.-2, 6, 9. University bursaries, E.-2, 7. Report of the Superintendent of Technical Education— Buildings, equipment, and apparatus, E.-2, 11. Domestic workers : Training, E.-2, 12. Examinations, E.—2, 13. General, E -2, 10. Technical high schools, E.-2, 11. Tables— Financial — Education Boards, E -2, 58. Secondary, combined, and technical schools and classes, E.-2, 71. Wanganui College Board of Trustees, E.-2, 85. Intermediate schools and department— Pupils, ages of, E.-2, 32. Pupils, staff, &c. : Roll and classification, E.-2, 32. Primary education and reports (extracts) of Education Boards — Children : Destination, E.-2, 20. Education Boards : Reports, E.-2, 25. Proficiency examination results, E.-2, 19. Pupils— Age and attainment of, who left school, E.-2, 19. Schools — Correspondence : Roll, &c., E.-2, 25. Private primary— Ages of pupils, E.-2, 24. Registered, E.-2, 23. Private secondary— Ages of pupils, E.-2, 51. Roll: Number and staff, E.-2, 50. Public primary— Attendance, E.-2, 15. Age and sex, E.-2, 16. Attendance, E.-2, 15. Average age of pupils, E.-2, 18. Classification, &c. : Number, E.-2, 15. Standard classes, &c., E.-2, 17. Secondary, combined, and technical high : Fulltime pupils according to courses of instruction, E.-2, 39. Secondary : Lower departments, E..-2, 25. Staff, E.-2, 21. Teachers — Adult, according to grade of salary, E.-2, 22. Classification, E.-2, 21, 22. Training of, E.-2, 54. Secondary and technical education — District high schools (secondary department)— Pupils — Age of, at date of admission, E.-2, 48. Ages, E.—2, 48. Average attendance : Roll, free-place holders, E.-2, 46. Subjects taken by, E.-2, 49. Years of attendance, E.-2, 48. Post primary— Education, particulars relating to, E.-2, 33. Schools (exclusive of district high schools) — Correspondence : Roll, &c., E.-2, 42. Pupils (full-time) — Age, E.-2, 36. Age at date of admission, E.-2, 37. Average attendance, roll, free-place holders, staff, &c., E.-2, 34. Boarding away from home, E.-2, 41. Subjects taken by, E.-2, 40. Years of attendance, E.-2, 37. Post-primary schools and manual instruction : Pupils (part-time)— According to occupations, E.-2, 43. Ages, E.-2, 43. Attending special manual-training centres, E.-2,45. Combined roll, day and evening classes, E.-2, 44. Free-place and other pupils according to year of attendance, E.-2, 43.

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EDUCATION —continued. Primary and post primary, Annual report —continued. Tables—continued. Secondary and technical education —continued. Teachers, training of — Students — Examination status of those who left, E.-2, 53. Initial status on admission, E.-2, 52. Number, E.-2, 52. Qualification on admission, E.-2, 53. Training Colleges : Reports (extract) of principals, E.-2, 54. Research scholarships, H.-34, 80. Schools — Savings branch, Post Office Savings-bank, F.-l, 22. School of Mines, C.-2, 10, 12. Teachers' Superannuation Fund : Annual Report, E.-8. Western Samoa, A.-4, 19-21. EGMONT NATIONAL PARK BOARDAnnual report, C.-10, 6. EGYPT— Admission to League of Nations, A.-sa, 1-3. ELECTORAL— Representation Commission report of the North and South Islands Representation Commissions sitting as a Joint Commission, H.-45. ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 7. EMPIRE AGRICULTURAL COUNCIL— Proposals for the establishment of, A.-7, 20. EMPIRE CABLE COMMITTEE— Visit of Director-General, Post and Telegraph Department, to London, F.-l, 4. EMPIRE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE EXHIBITION, WELLINGTON, 1936 Industries and Commerce Department, report on, H.-44, 21. EMPLOYMENT (see also under LABOUR) — Employment promotion— Budget Statement — Fund, 8.-6, 2. Public works, 8.-6, 2. Secondary industries, 8.-6, 2. Maori, G.-9, 2. Public Works Department, D.-l, 162. EUROPE— Trade with, H.-44, 16. EXCHANGE RATES Reserve Bank of New Zealand report, 8.-16, 4. EXPLOSIVES (see also under INTERNAL AFFAIRS)— Destruction of fish by, H.-44a, 90-91. FACTORIES. See under LABOUR. FAIR RENTS ACT, 1936— Administration, H.-11, 18. FAMILY ALLOWANCES. See under PENSIONS. FEARNLEY, F. H.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. FIJI— Trade with, H.-44, 13. FINANCE— Agriculture — Export values, H.-29, 35. Labour-costs, H.-29, 3. Wool sold last three years, H.-29, 13. Bank of New Zealand balance-sheet for the year, 8.-15. Broadcasting— National Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 7. National Commercial Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 8. New Zealand Broadcasting Board, F.-3, 4. Consolidated Fund— Appropriations chargeable on the, for the year, 8.-7. Controller and Auditor-General: Annual report, 8.-l [Pt. ll], Cook Islands, A.-3, 1, 21, 22. Customs Department—Cost of collecting Customs and other revenue : Return for the year, 8.-12.

FINANCE —continued. Debt, public — Repayment: Report and accounts of the Public Debt Commission for the year, 8.-2. Statement showing as at 31st March, 1937, 8.-l [Pt. Til J. Defence, military, H.-19, 7, 9. Economic and financial questions : League of Nations' report, A.-5, 14. Education — Cost of, E.-l, 8. Expenditure and recoveries in respect of the services under the Crown or supervision of the Minister of Education during the year, E.-l, 43. Primary and post-primary, E.-2, 58. Teachers' Superannuation Fund— Annual report, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 42. Eire brigades of the Dominion, H.-12, 1, 7-10. Forestry, C.-3, 2, 7, 14, 17, 18. Friendly societies and trade-unions, H.-l, 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9-23, 26-29. General Assembly Library, H.-32, 4. Government Life Insurance Department : Annual report, H.-8. Government Superannuation Funds— Public Service, H.-26. Commissioners' report, H.-14, 9. Railways, D.-5. Teachers, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 42. Health : Mental hospitals, H.-7, 23-25. Industries, financial assistance to, H.-44, 27. Labour Department— Employment Division, H.-ll a, 23-25. Expenditure during year, H.-11, 20. Lands— Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Account — Balance-sheet, C.-9, 11. Mortgages : Transfer, C.-9, 3. Transactions for year, C.-9, 9. Drainage operations— Hauraki Plains, C.-8, 5. Rangitaiki, C.-11, 3. Swamp, C.-4, 3. Land for Settlements Act, 1925, C.-5, 3-10. Public Domains and National Parks, C.-10. Scenery Preservation, C.-6, 8, 9. Settlement of Crown Lands, C.-l, 3, 4, 31, 35, 36, 38. Land Transfer and Deeds Registration, H.-3. Marine — Department, H.-15, 2. Fishing industry, investments in, H.-44a, 2. Mining industry, C.-2, 1-3, 7-9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 22-26, 51-58. State Coal-mines, C.-2a, 4-12. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Board of Trustees : Treasurer's report, H.-21, 11. National Provident Fund — Annual report of Board, H.-17. Statement of amounts paid into, by way of State subsidy, H.-17A. Native affairs — East Coast Native Trust Lands — Balance-sheet and statement of accounts, G.-3. Mangatu Nos. 1, 3, and 4 Blocks : Balance-sheet and statement of accounts, G.-4. Land-development: Receipts and payments, &c., G.-10, 91, 94. Niue Island, A.-6, 1, 7. Patents, designs, and trade-marks, H.-10, 4. Pensions Department : Annual report, H.-l 8. Police Department, H.-16, 23. Post and Telegraph— Cable, radio-telegraph, and radio-telephone business transacted during the year, as compared with the year previous, table showing, F.-l, 39. Money-orders issued and money-orders payable in New Zealand since the year ended 1863 : Table showing number, F.-l, 33. Paid telegrams and toll-calls (including cable and radio messages and overseas toll-calls) during the year ended 31st March, 1936 and 1937, F.-l, 38. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 12, 33. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 21, 35, 36. School savings branch, F.-l, 22. Primarv Products Marketing Department, H.-30, 33, 34, 36, 39-45. 1 Printing and Stationery Department, H-36.

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FINANCE —continued. Public Accounts — Abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the Public Account for the year, 8.-l [Pt. I]. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts of various Government Departments for the year: Audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV]. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts of various Government Departments for the year: Audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936]. Controller and Auditor-General: Annual report, 8.-l [Pt. ll]. . . Statement showing the Public Debt of the Dominion as on 31st March, 1937, 8.-l [Pt. lII]. Public securities held in the Dominion or elsewhere, 8.-10. Public Service Superannuation Fund— Annual report, H.-26. Commissioners' report, H.-14, 9. Public Trust Office— Report for the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-9. Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-9 a. Report for the year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-9. Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-9 a Public Works : Expenditure, D.-l, iii, iv, vii, 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 21, 24, 159, 191, 194. Public Works Fund : Appropriations chargeable on the Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7 a. Questions relating to work of the Imperial Economic Committee, Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 20. Railways— Balance-sheets and statements of accounts, Statistical returns, &c., D.-2, 1-31. Superannuation Fund : Annual report, D.-5. Reserve Bank of New Zealand : Annual report and statement of accounts, 8.-16. Rural Intermediate Credit Board : Annual report, 8.-14. State Advances Corporation of New Zealand : Report and accounts for the year, 8.-13 A. State Fire Insurance Office, H.-6. Accident Insurance Branch, H.-6a. Stores Control Board : Annual report, H.-4. Tourist and Health Resorts, H.-2, 7. Transport Department, H.-40, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 31, 33, 36, 37, 39. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4, 6-11. FINLAYSON, I. G.— Report on petition of, 1.-4, 2. FIRE BRIGADES OF THE DOMINION— Annual report — Areas protected by Fire Boards, H.-12, 10. Causes of fire, H.-12, 6, 7. Deaths and injuries in fires, H.-12, 6. Dominion fire waste, H.-12, 1. Fire districts, H.-l 2, 1. Average statistics for all fire districts which have been in operation for the twelve years, 1924-35, H.-12, 9. Average statistics for other fire districts, H.-12, 10. Fire loss in. H.-12, 2. Miscellaneous statistics, H.-12, 8. Incendiarism, H.-12, 2. Inspections, H.-12, 6. , Fire Brigades Act, 1926, H.-22, 16. FISHING INDUSTRY. See under MARINE. FLAX INDUSTRY— Research, H.-34, 11, 42. FOOTWEAR REGULATIONS ACT— H.-11, 19. FOREIGN AFFAIRS— Imperial Conference, 1937 : Report, A.-7, 7. Overseas negotiations, 8.-6, 11. FOREIGNERS— Indigent: Assistance, A.-5, 24. FOREIGN WAR VESSELS - Visits to New Zealand, H.-5, 4. FORESTRY— Bush preservation and amenity planting, H.-22, 2 ; D.-l, 172. Forestry Branch, Railways Department, D.-3, xxiv. State Forest Service : Annual report — Forest fires, C.-3, 2, 8.

FORESTRY —continued. State Forest Service : Annual report—continued. General — Finance, C.-3, 18. Honorary forest rangers, C.-3, 18. Legislation, G.-3, 17. List of common and botanical names of species mentioned in the report, C.-3, 21. Management — Areas of State forests, C.-3, 5. Forest atlas, C.-3, 8. Forest reconnaissance, demarcation, and surveys, C.-3, 6. Mining privileges in State forests, C.-3, 2. Protection forests, C.-3, 6. State afforestation, C.-3, 2, 6. Timber sales, C.-3, 7. Waitangi endowment, C.-3, 8. West Taupo timber lands, C.-3, 7. Opossum-trapping, C.-3, 2. Policy, C.-3, 2. Protection — Fires and fire districts, C.-3, 9. Forest fires, C.-3, 8. Forest parasite biology, C.-3, 9. Forest protection : Animal destruction, C.-3, 9. General, C.-3, 8. Silvicultural operations, and yields from exotic forests, C.-3, 10. Repors, summarized, on State afforestation in forestconservation regions, C.-3, 19. Sawmills, C.-3, 2. Timber trade — Domestic markets, C.-3, 14. Exports, C.-3, 15. General, C.—3, 14. Regional planning of indigenous-forest areas, C.-3, 15. Utilization— Drying of timber, C.-3, 13. General, C.-3, 10. Grading, C.-3, 13. Logging technique, 0.-3, 12. Miscellaneous, C.-3, 14. Sawmill technique, C.-3, 12. Wood preservation, C.-3, 13. Timber areas : Railways Department, D.-2, v, xxi. Timber : Prices, &c., H.-44, 32. Western Samoa, A.-4, 24. FORTY-HOUR WEEK. See under LABOUR. FRANCE— Dispute with Turkey concerning future of Syria and Lebanon, A.-sb, 5, 11, 16, 25. FRASER, A. A., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. FREE CITY OF DANZIG— League of Nations, report on, A.-sb, 11, 24. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE— Western Samoa, A.-4, 18. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND TRADE-UNIONS — Annual report— Benefit members and amounts of benefit and other funds of all friendly societies and branches : Number, H.-l, 9-23. Disposition of funds, H.-l, 28. Friendly societies, H.-l, 1. General, H.-l, 1. Investments at interest, H.-l, 29. Legislation, H.-l, 6. Membership and funds, H.-l, 3, 9, 30. Public auditors of friendly socieities : List, H.-l, 7. Recipts and expenditure — Annual returns, H.-l, 3. Medical and management funds, H.-l, 27. Sick and funeral funds, H.-l, 26. Registrations, H.-l, 1. Rules, H.-l, 2. Sickness and mortality for the year : Numerical progress, H.-l, 24. Trade-unions, H.-l, 6. Valuations completed during the year: Summary, H.-l, 5, 8.

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FRUIT-GROWING. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. GAMING OFFENCES— Prosecutions, H.-16, 3. GAS REGULATIONS— Report, H.-44, 33. GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY— Annual report, H.-32— Accessions, H.-32, 1. Copyright, H.-32, 3. Deposited collections, H.-32, 2. Donations, H.-32, 1. Finance, H.-32, 4. Inter-library loans, H.-32, 3. International exchange, H.-32, 3. Library, furnishing, H.-32, 3. New Zealand Library Conference, H.-32, 4. Publications, H.-32, 3. Reference and research, 11.-32, 3. Recess privileges, H.-32, 4. Staff, H.-32, 2, 3. GHEE— Manufacture and export of, H.-30, 32. GLACIAL SCENIC RESERVES, WESTLAND— Article on, C.-6, 5, 10. GOLDFIELDS AND MINES COMMITTEE. See under COMMITTEES. GOLD-MINING. See under MINING. GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT. See under PUBLIC WORKS. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT (see also INSURANCE ; also STATE FIRE INSURANCE)— Annual report — Actuary's report on the valuation of the Department, H.-8, 6. Annual bonus distribution, H.-8, 1. Expense ratios and rate of interest, H.-8, 2. Income : Outgoings and accumulated funds, H.-8, 1. Investments, A. -8, 1. New business and amount of business in force, H.-8, 1. Statement of accounts, H.-8, 3. Statement of business at end of year, H.-8, 4. Public securities held by, 8.-10, 15. GOVERNMENT SUPERANNUATION FUNDS— Public Service— Annual report, H.-26. Commissioners' report, H.-14. Railways : Annual report, D.-5. Teachers — Annual report, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 42. GRAHAM, S., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, I. 1, 6. GREGORY, C. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. GUARANTEED PRICES. See under PRICES. HAKI KARAWANA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL EMPOWERING AMENDMENT BILL Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 4. HARBOURS. See under MARINE. HARRIS, T.— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3. HART, J. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. HAWKE, H. Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. HAUKAKI PLAINS DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. See under LANDS AND SURVEY.

HEALTH— Abortion : Report of the Committee of inquiry into the various aspects of the problem of abortion in New Zealand, H.-31A. Cook Islands, A.-3, 2-6. Department— Annual report— AppendixCare and after care of the Maori tuberculous, H.-31, 62. Dental condition and diet of the Maoris of Maungapohatu Village, H.-31, 64. Progress of campaign against tuberculosis in New Zealand, H.-31, 58. Dental hygiene : Director's report— Centres at which school dental clinics were established, H.-31, 39. Contribution system, H.-31, 37. Dental caries : Prevention bv operative treatment, H.-31, 37. Dental disease among Maori children, H.-31, 36. Dental health education, H.-31, 36. Extractions to fillings : Ratio, H.-31, 34. General, H.-31, 34. Hostel for student dental nurses, H.-31, 36. Nurses : Dental training, H.-31, 35. Staff, H.-31, 34. Statistics, H.-31, 35. Wellington dental clinic, H.-31, 36. Director-General's reportChanges in medical staff, H.-31, 4. Infectious and other diseases, H.-31, 2. Reports of divisional directors, H.-31, 5. Vital statistics, H.-31, 1. Hospitals : Director's report— Amalgamation, H.-31, 32. Building operations, H.-31, 29. Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer, H.-31, 32. Maternal welfare : Report of inspector of maternity and private hospitals— Ante-natal clinics, H.-31, 46. Confinements: Graph showing proportion eonducted in maternity hospitals and in other places, 1927-36, H.-31, 47. General hospitals (medical and surgical), H.-31, 48. Maternal morbidity and mortality, H.-31, 52. Maternity services, supervision of, H.-31, 48. Nursing division : Director's report— Hospital inspection, H.-31, 40. Hospital staffing, H.-31, 41. Maori nurses, H.-31, 45. New Zealand Registered Nurses Association, H.-31, 45. Nurses, training, H.-31, 40. Nursing staff : Health, H.-31, 43. Nursing technique, H.-31, 41. Obstetrical hospitals, H.-31, 44. Post-graduate course, H.-31, 44. Public-health-nursing activities, H.-31, 44. Tropical nursing service, H.-31, 45. Private, medical, and surgical hospitals, H.-31, 57. Public hygiene : Director's report— Notifiable diseases— General, H.-31, 12. In New Zealand showing distribution by— Age and sex, H.-31, 18. Months, H.-31, 16. Maoris : Notification of cases for year, H.-31, 19. Notification of cases by health districts for year, H.-31, 17. Venereal-disease clinics: Cases treated during the year, H.-31, 20. Poisons, H.-31, 15. Port health inspection, H.-31, 20. Sale of Pood and Drugs Act, working of, H..-31, 15, 21. Vital statistics— Births, H.-31, 8. Deaths, H.-31, 8-12. Population, H.-31, 8. School hygiene : Director's report— Complete examinations : Summary, H.-31, 22. Dental caries, H.—3l, 28. Diet and school luncheons, H.-31, 25. Figures relating to work accomplished, H.-31, 22. Health camps, H.-31, 25. Infectious diseases, H.-31, 28. Kindergartens, H.-31, 24.

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HEALTH —continued. Department —continued. Annual report —continued. School hygiene : Director's report—continued. Medical examination of applicants for entrance into the teaching profession, H.-31, 23. Mentally backward children, H.-31, 27. Milk-distribution, H.-31, 25. Native schools, H.-31, 28. Nutrition, H.-31, 25. Open-air schools, H.-31, 27. Physical education, H.-31, 24. Schools and school buildings, H.-31, 28. Staff, H.-31, 22. Tuberculosis, H.-31, 27. Expenditure, 8.-6, 21. Factory hygiene and welfare, H.—ll, 3. Health stamps, F.-l, 20. Hospitals — Mental — Annual report— Director-General's report— Accommodation, state of, H.-7, 1. Alterations, additions, and improvements, H.-7, 2. Changes in medical staff, H.-7, 4. Clinics, H.-31, 4. Occupational therapy, H.-7, 3. Programme for current year, H.-7, 2. Villa system, H.-7, 2. Finance— Average cost of each patient per annum, H.-7, 24. Debits and credits for the financial year, H.-7, 23, 24. Expenditure out of Public Works Fund on mental hospital buildings, &c., during the financial year, H.-7, 25. Expenditure, total, out of Public Works Fund for buildings and equipment at each mental hospital from Ist July, 1877, H.-7, 25. Medical Superintendents' reports— Auckland, H.-7, 4. Christchurch, H.-7, 9. Hokitika, H.-7, 9. Kingseat, H.-7, 5. Nelson, H.-7, 8. Porirua, H.-7, 7. Seacliff, H.-7, 10. Tokanui, H.-7, 6. Nurses, H.-7, 3, 13. Shortening of working-hours, H.-7, 3. Statistical, H.-7, 11. Tables— Admission, discharges, and deaths, with the mean annual mortality and proportion of recoveries per cent, of the admissions for the year, H.-7, 14. Admissions, discharges, and deaths, with the mean annual mortality and proportion of recoveries per cent, of the admissions for each year since 1876, H.-7, 20. Admissions, discharges, and deaths from Ist January, 1876, H.-7, 22. Admissions, re-admissions, discharges, and deaths, &c., during the year, H.-7, 14. Ages of patients, H.-7, 16. Causes of death, H.-7, 18. Length of residence of patients discharged " recovered " during the year, H.-7, 17. Native countries of patients, H.-7, 15. Principal assigned causes of insanity, H.-7, 19. Infantile-paralysis epidemic : Effect on passenger traffic, D.-2, i. League of Nations report, A.-5, 13; A.-sb, 9, 10, 20, 23. Mission in Spain, A.-sb, 13. Niue Island, A.-6, 4, 6. Nutrition, A.-5, 13 ; A.-sb, 7. Physical education, E.-l, 37. Post and Telegraph Department : Permanent Staff, F.-l, 13. Western Samoa, A.-4, 22. HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL— Report on petition of, 1.-7, 2. HIRSCHBERG, G. A. Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. HOANI MEIHANA AND OTHERSReport on petition of, 1.-3, 7.

HOGG, C. H.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. HOLLAND. See NETHERLANDS. HOSPITALS. See under HEALTH. HOTELKEEPERS— Prosecutions against, H.-16, 3. HOUGHTON, M. H.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. HOUSING— Branch, State Advances Corporation, public securities held by, 8.-10, 23. Budget Statement— Contracts for erection of houses, 8.-6, 4. Expenditure, 8.-6, 5. Housing Department: Construction, 8.-6, 4. Survey, 8.-6, 4. Housing Act, 1919, operations under, 8.-13 a, 25. Native, G.-9, 5. Railways Department: Departmental dwellings, D.-2. xxx. State-ooal mines, C.-2, 10. Surveys, C.-la, 2. HOVELL, H. K.— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. HUGHES, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS— League of Nations report, A.-5, 19. HUNT, F. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. HUTTON, C.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. lITI TE IKAWAEWAE KUPENGA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. ILLEGITIMACY— E.-4, 14. IMMIGRATION. See under LABOUR. IMPERIAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH BUREAU— H.-34, 80. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, 1937 Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 21. Summary of proceedings— Advisers, secretaries, and personal staff, A.-7, 23. Arrangement of the work of the Conference, A.-7, 6. Borden, Sir Robert, death of, A.-7, 7. Civil aviation, A.-7, 17. Colonial affairs, A.-7, 13. Committee on certain economic questions— Proposal for the establishment of the Empire Agricultural Council, A.-7, 20. Questions relating to work of the Imperial Economic Committee, A.-7, 19. Concluding resolutions, A.-7, 21. Concluding statements, A.-7, 38. Constitutional questions— Nationality, A.-7, 14. Married women, A.-7, 17. Treaty procedure, A.-7, 16. Defence, A.-7, 9. Empire trade and allied questions : General review of progress, A.-7, 12. Foreign affairs, A.-7, 7. Imperial War Graves Commission, A.-7, 13. New Hebrides, A.-7, 21. Opening statements, A.-7, 6, 27. Polar questions, A.-7, 21. Publicity arrangements, A.-7, 7. Shipping, A.-7, 18. Their Majesties the King and Queen — Address to H.M. the King, Emperor of India, A.-7, 22. Coronation, A.-7, 5. King's Birthday, A.-7, 7. Message to, and reply, A.-7, 5.

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IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION— Work of, A.-7, 13. INCOME-TAX. See under TAXATION. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE Commercial Branch, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 4, 15. Commercial Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, xxx. Department : Annual report — Board of Trade (Fertilizer) Regulations 1936, H.-44, 35. Branches of industry, H.-44, 24. Bulletins, H.-44, 35. Bureau of Industry, H.-44, 24. Canadian National Exhibition, H.-44, 20. Cement, H.-44, 32. Chattels Transfer Act, 1924, H.-44, 33. Cost of living, prices, and control, H.-44, 24. Empire Chambers of Commerce Federation, H.-44, 21. Exhibitions, overseas, H.-44, 20. Fishing industry, H.-44, 31. Fruit and vegetables : Investigation into the marketing and handling, H.-44, 30. Gas regulations, H.-44, 33. Imperial Economic Conference, 1937, H.-44, 21. •Johannesburg Empire Exhibition, H.-44, 20. Manufacturers' associations, H.-44, 21. Manufacturing industries : Statistics, H.-44, 22, 36-40. Miscellaneous activities, H.-44, 35. Motion-picture industry, H.-44, 34. Nash, Hon. W. : Visit to United Kingdom, &c., H.-44, 27. New steamship lines : Dutch East Indies and Japan, H.-44, 19. New Zealand Centennial, H.-44, 34. New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, H.-44, 21. New Zealand Standards Institute, H.-44, 35. Overseas trade representatives, H.-44, 19. Onion-growing industry, H.-44, 29. Petrol, H.-44, 32. Publications, H.-44, 35. Rarotongan fruit inquiry, H.-44, 31. Stores Control Board, H.-44, 21. Timber, H.-44, 17. Tobacco industry, H.-44, 28. Trade — Agreements, H.-44, 19. General trade review— Exports— Percentages of total exports shipped to each of the principal countries trading with the Dominion during the period 1931-34, H.-44, 4. Quantities and values of the principal commodities exported in 1935 and 1936, H.-44, 4. Value of (excluding specie) according to country of destination, 1931-34, H.-44, 6. Value of, compared with previous year, H.-44, 3. Imports — Quantities and values of the principal items imported into New Zealand, 1935-36, H.-44, 5. Value of (excluding specie) according to country of origin, 1931-34, H.-44, 6. Value of, compared with previous year, H.-44, 3. Island trade — Cook and Niue Islands, H.-44, 15. Fiji, H.-44, 13. Tonga, H.-44, 15. Western Samoa, H.-44, 14. With— Australia, H.-44, 7. British West Indies, H.-44, 12. Canada, H.-44, 8. East, H.-44, 17. Europe, H.-44, 16. Japan, H.-44, 18. South America, H.-44, 13. United Kingdom, H.-44, 6. United States, H.-44, 10. Trading coupons, H.-44, 34. Wheat, flour, and bread, H.-44, 28. Woolpacks, H.-44, 31. Industrial efficiency— Bureau of Industry, 8.-6, 12. Overlapping of industries, 8.-6, 12. Price-fixation, 8.-6, 13. Standards Institute, 8.-6, 13. Industrial Research. See SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. Industry, promotion of employment in, H.-11a, 15. Loans for industries, 8.-13 a, 13. New industries, 8.-6, 11. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report, H.-44A. Secondary industries : Employment promotion, 8.-6, 2. Timber trade, C.-3, 14.

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS AND UNIONS. See FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND TRADE-UNIONS. INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. See under LABOUR. INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2)— Select Committee report on, 1.-9, 1. INSURANCE — Insurance companies' deposits with Public Trustee, 8.-9, 1936, 7. Marine — Fishing-vessels, H.—44a, 88. Primary Products Marketing Department, H.-30, 26. INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION— International Committee on, A.~sb, 18. INTEREST— Receipts, 8.-6, 23. Rural Intermediate Credit Board, 8.--14. Trend in interest rates, B. -1 3a, 6. INTERNAL AFFAIRS — Department— Annual report — Advertising office, H.-22, 14. Alexander Turnbull Library, H.-22, 19. Animals Protection and Game Act, H.-22, 6. Auctioneers, H.-22, 14. Bush preservation and amenity tree-planting, H.-22, 2. Chartered clubs, H.-22, 14. Cinematograph Films Act, H.-22, 18. Coronation, H.-22, 1. Dangerous goods, H.-22, 18. Deer, H.- -22, 11. Distinguished visitors, H.-22, 14. Explosives and dangerous goods, H.-22, 16. Film censorship, H.-22, 19. Fire Brigades Act, H.-22, 16. King George V Memorial, H.-22, 1. Land-agents, H.-22, 14. Legislation, H.-22, 5. Local government, H.--22, 2, 5. Maori Antiquities Act, 1908, H.-22, 14. Naturalization, H.-22, 14. New Zealand's Centennial, H.-22, 1. Opossums, H.-22, 7. Passports, H.-22, 14. Raffles, H.-22, 16. Rotorua Acclimatization District, H.-22, 10. Sports and recreation : Proposed national council, H.-22, 2. Stoats and weasels, H.-22, 10. Totalizator inspections, H.-22, 11, 15. Town-planning, H.-22, 6. War funds, H.-22, 15. War graves, H.-22, 15. Wild pigs on Poor Knights Islands, 11.-22, 13. Balance-sheet and statement of accounts for the year 1934-35, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 35. INTERNAL MARKETING. See under MARKETING. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE, GENEVA, 1937 Report of the — New Zealand Employers' delegate, A.-SG. New Zealand Government delegation, A.-sc. New Zealand workers' delegate, A.-SF. INTERNATIONAL RELIEF UNION— League of Nations' report, A.-5, 25. INVALIDITY PENSIONS. See under PENSIONS. IRRIGATION. See under PUBLIC WORKS. JAMES COLLIERY. See under MINING INDUSTRY. JAPANNew steamship line to, H.-44, 19. Trade with, H.-44, 18. JOHANNESBURG EMPIRE EXHIBITION— H.-44, 20. JORDAN, F. C., AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. J

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JORDAN, J. B„ AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 4. JOYCE, S., AND OTHERSReport on petition of, 1.—16, 4. JUSTICE AND PRISONS— Cook Islands, A.-3, 11, 12. Native land laws, G.-9, 4. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Offenders' probation : Annual report, H.-20b. Penal and penitentiary questions : League of Nations' report, A.-5, 24. Permanent Court of International Justice, A.-5, 9. Prisons— Board : Annual report, H.-20a. Department— Annual report— Controller-General's report— Alternatives to imprisonment for default, H.-20, 10. Attachment of wages, H.-20, 15. Borstal institutions, H.-20, 8. Classification and segregation, H.-20, 7. Enforcement of fines, H.-20, 12. Escapes, H.-20, 6. Finance : Revenue and expenditure, H.-20, 5, 6. Health of prisoners, H.-20, 4. Industries, development, H.-20, 6. Institutional activities, H.-20, 7. Maintenance orders, H.-20, 11. Prisoners' food, H.-20, 7. Prison statistics, H.-20, 1. Public Works Fund expenditure, H.-20, 5. Punishments and infractions of discipline, H.-20, 6, Scope of Committee's inquiry. H.-20, 11. Sexual offences, H.-20, 7. Social welfare, H.-20, 5. Prisons and penal institutions : Epitome of reports of controlling officers, H.-20, 11 -24. Tables — Actual number of distinct prisoners received into gaol during the year classified according to principal offences according to birthplace and age, H.-20, 30. Finance, H.-20, 28. Maori prisoners received, H.-20, 31. New-Zealand-born prisoners received into prisons during year, H.-20, 31. Number of prisoners at each prison or institution in the Dominion during the year, H.-20, 27. Particulars for each prison, of prisoners at beginning and end of year, and received and discharged during year, H.-20, 25. Prisoners : Ages and sentences, H.-20, 32. Prison labour for the year : Analysis of value, H.-20, 29. Prosecutions— Breaches of the Dairy Industry Act, H.-29, 39. Marine Department, H.-15, 18, 19. Shipping Laws, H.-15, 7. Western Samoa — Judicial organization, A.-4, 13-16. Prisons, A.-4, 17. KARA POROWINI AND OTHERS— Report on petition of. 1.-3, 7. KAPITI ISLAND RESERVE— Report, C.-6, 18. KARANGA TE KERE— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. KAURI-GUM INDUSTRY— Report for the year, C.-12. KINDERGARTENS. See under EDUCATION. KING GEORGE V MEMORIAL— National appeal, &c., H.-22, 1. KING'S CORONATION— Work undertaken in connection with, H.-22, 1. KIRK, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. KOSTANICH, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2.

LABOUR— Agriculture : Costs, H.-29, 3. Department— Annual report, H.-ll— Apprentices Act, H.-11, 14. Apprentices employed in skilled trades : Return showing number, H.-11, 15. Employment and unemployment, H.-11, 1. Factories Act — Accidents, H.-11, 2. Boys and girls in factories, H.-11, 3. Factories Amendment Act, 1936, H.-11, 3. Factory hygiene and welfare work, H.-11, 3. Inspections, &c., H.-11, 3. Number of factories and number of workers: Return. H.-11, 1. Fair Rents Act, 1936, H.-11, 18. Finance : Expenditure during the year, H.-11, 20. Footwear Regulations Act, H.-11, 19. Immigration, H.-11, 20. Industrial associations, showing the number of affiliated unions and members — Employers, H.-11, 21, 23. Hours of work fixed by orders of the Court under the Act, and awards issued subsequent to Ist September, 1936, H.-11, 8. Workers, H.-11, 22, 30. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act — Industrial disturbances during the year, H.-11, 14. Inspections, &c., H.-11, 13 Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, H.-11, 14. Registrations of industrial associations and unions, H.-11, 13. Work done under during the year, H.-11, 6. Work performed by Commissioners and Councils of Conciliation, H.-11, 6. International Labour Office, H.-11, 19. Ratification of conventions, H.-11, 20. Rent restriction, H.-11, 18. Scaffolding and Excavation Act, H.-11, 17. Servants Registry Office Act, H.-11, 18. Shearers' Accommodation Act, H.-11, 17. Wages, arrears, H.-11, 16. Weights and Measures Act, H.-11, 19. Workers' Compensation Act, H.-11, 16. Employment Division : Annual report, H.-l lA—■ Administration, H.-l la, 2. Building-subsidy schemes : Termination, H.-l la, 15. Employment in industry : Promotion, H.-l la, 15. Employment Promotion Fund, H.-ll A, 6. Legislation, H.-11a, 2. Main activities, H.-l la, 20. State Placement Service, H.-l la, 19. Tables— Duration of unemployment according to age-groups, &c., H.-l la, 28. Finance— Annual administration expenses, H.-ll A, 24. Annual balance-sheet, H.-ll A, 25. Annual receipts and payments, H.-l la, 23. Contributions to Fund, H.-11a, 24. Expenditure on foodstuffs (rationing system), H.-ll A, 24. Expenditure on unemployment relief (Government Departments), H.-l la, 26. Graph showing numbers of unemployed, H.-l la, 33. Map showing geographical distribution of unemployed, H.-ll a, 31. Numbers on relief since 1931, H.-l la, 27. Numbers wholly or partly a charge on Fund for the year, H.-l la, 26. Unemployment— Maoris, H.-11a, 12. Position, H.—lla, 4. Registrations, analysis, H.-l la, 4. ReliefScheme No. 5 (relief work), H.-l la, 10. Sustenance, H.-l la, 9. Review of benefits, H.-l la, 6. Women and girls, H.-ll A, 14. Domestic workers : Training, E,— 2, 12. Forty-hour week, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 13. International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1937— Report of the— New Zealand employers' delegate, A.-sa. New Zealand Government delegation, A.-sc. New Zealand Workers' delegate, A.-sf.

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LABOUR —continued. Unemployment— Gold-prospecting subsidy, C.-2, 12, 13. Maoris, G.-9, 2. Tax : Collection, F.-l, 22. Workers — Employment, D.-l, v. Settlement, D.-l, xxxiv. Workers' compensation, 8.-9, 1937, 7. Western Samoa, A.-4, 18. LABOUR BILLS COMMITTEE, SELECT. See under COMMITTEES. LAND-AGENTS — Licenses granted, H.-22, 14. LANDS— Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Department, public securities held by, 8.-10, 24. Development, &c., D.-l, 51. Drainage— Operations — Hauraki Plains : Annual report, C.-8. Rangitaiki Land Drainage : Annual report, C.-11. Swamp : Annual report, C.-4. Inprovement, D.-l, xxvii. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 15. Kauri-gum industry : Annual report, C.-l 2. Land for Settlements Act, 1925 : Annual report, C.-5 — Estates, private, acquired to 31st March, 1936 : Summary, C.-5, 2. Land, private, purchased and paid for during year: Return, C.-5, 2. Land Purchase Controller : Report, C.-5, 1. Land for Settlement Account for the year — Balance-sheet, C.-5, 7-9. Payments from, during year, C.-5, 2. Receipts and Payments Account for the year, C.-5, 3-5. Revenue Account for the year, C.-5, 6. Properties considered during year. Number, C.-5, 2. National Endowments : Annual report, C.-14. Native — Consolidation, G.—9, 4. Development, and assistance to Maoris, G.-9, 2. Land laws, G.-9, 4. Maori Land Boards, 6.-9, 3. Surveys, C.-la, 2. Public Domains and National Parks: Annual report, C.-10— National Parks, C.-10, 3. Arthur Pass, C.-10, 6. Egmont, C.-10, 6. Tongariro, C.-10, 4. Public Domains, C.-10, 1. Scenery preservation — Annual report, C.-6 — Expenditure — Comparison of, C.-6, 9. On scenery preservation for the year, C.-6, 8. Future operations, C.-6, 5. General, C.-6, 1. Gifts of scenic areas, C.-6, 4. Glacial Scenic Reserves of Westland, C.-6, 5, 10. Kapiti Island Reserve, C.-6, 18. Private Scenic Reserve declared under section 6 of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1933, C.-6, 8. Reserves made in 1936-37 under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and amendments, C.-6, 6. Revocations of reservations, C.-6, 7. Scenery Preservation Board, C. 6. 3. Summary of Reserves, C.-6, 8. Supervision of Reserves, C.-6, 3. Bush preservation and amenity planting, D.-l, 172. Settlement — Backblock roads : Metalling, D.-l, i. Crown-lands settlement: Annual report — Educational endowment, C.-l, 6. Finance — Expenditure C.-l, 7. National endowment, C.-l, 6. Rebates, C.-l, 6. Receipts, arrears, and postponements, C.-l, 6, 38. Lands— All lands held on lease, C.-l, 36. Development, C.-l, 2. Drainage operations, C.-l, 24. Endowment: Leased and administered by Land Boards, C.-l, 37.

4 LANDS —continued. Settlement —continued. Crown-lands settlement: Annual report—continued. Lands—continued. For selection, C.-1, 6. Selection during year, C.-l, 36. Inferior : Special settlement, C.-l, 5. Lands-for-settlement, C.-l, 37. Of the Dominion : Position, C.-l, 35. Reserved for various purposes, C-l, 7, Legislation, C.-l, 2. Reports of Commissioners of Crown Lands : Extracts from, C.-l, 8-12, 21-24. Review of past year, C.-l, 2. Settlements established : Summary, C.-l, 13-21. Small farms, C.-l, 4, 31. Discharged soldiers— Annual report— Applications received and lands allotted, C.-9, 2. Dominion Revaluation Board : Report, C.-9, 4. Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Account— Balance-sheet, C.-9, 11. Transactions for year, C.-9, 9. General review, C.-9, 2. Lands acquired by discharged soldiers, C.-9, 8. Lands proclaimed, C.-9, 2. Mortgages, transfer, C.-9, 3. Reports of Commissioners of Crown Lands, C.-9, 5. Mortgages transferred to State Advances Corporation, 8.-13 A, 14. Settlement and other roads : Construction, &c„ D.-l, xxiii. Small-farms scheme, D.-l, 54. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 15. Unemployed workers, D.-l, xxxiv. Surveys— Annual report, C.-lA— Appreciation, C.-IA, 3. Adjustment of triangulation and standard traverses, C.-IA, 3. Drawings for photolithography, C.-la, 3. Examination and recording of plans, C.-IA, 2. Field inspections, C.-IA, 2. Geodetic triangulation, C.-la, 2, 7. Head Office : Draughting Branch, C.-IA, 4. Housing surveys, C.-IA, 2. Map publications, C.-IA, 3. Native land surveys, C.-la, 2. Other work, C.-la, 2. Plan drawing, C.-la, 2. Proposed operations, C.-la, 3. Road surveys, C.-la, 2. Rural surveys, C.-la, 2. Second and third order triangulation, C.-la, 2. Standard of accuracy, C.-IA, 2. Standard surveys, C.-IA, 2. Staff, C.-IA, 3. Summary, C.-la, 2. Survey Board, C.-IA, 6. Tables — Areas surveyed for Lands and Survey Department. C.-IA, 8. Areas surveyed for other Departments, C.-IA, 8. Field work executed, C.-IA, 7. Office work, C.-la, 10. Rural surveys area, C.-la, 7. Work on hand, C.-la, 10. Tidal survey, C.-la, 3. Topographical survey, C.-la, 2. Town and suburban surveys, C.-la, 2. Town schemes, C.-la, 3. Warrants for title, C.-la, 3. Geological, mining industry, C.-2, 10. Taxation : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 23. Western Samoa, A.-4, 5, 24. LAND TRANSFER AND DEEDS REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT— Annual report — Arrears in the Land Transfer Department, H.-3, 4. Business transacted, H.-3, 1, 2. Compulsory registration, H.-3, 1. Deeds remaining unregistered on the 31st December, 1936 ; received for registration and registered during the year ended 31st December, 1937 ; also number remaining on that date and the amount of fees collected during the same period, H.-3, 4. Fees received under the Land Transfer Act for the year, H.-3, 3. Money secured by mortgage under the Land Transfer Act, H.-3, 3.

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LEAGUE OF NATIONS Expenditure : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 21. International Labour Conference, Geneva, 1937— Report of the— New Zealand employers' delegate, A.-SG. New Zealand Government delegation, A.-sc. New Zealand Workers' delegate, A.-sf. International relations : Western Samoa report, A.-4, 2. Report of the representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the Extraordinary Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations held at Geneva, 1937, A.-sa. Report of the representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the Seventh Assembly, 1936 — Adoption of agenda and appointment of Committees, A.-5, 3. Applications of the principles of the Covenant, A.-5, 7. Committees — First: Constitutional and legal questions— Composition of the Council, A.-5, 10. Convention of nationality concluded on 26th December, 1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States, A.-5, 12. International repression of terrorism, A.-5, 11. Permanent Court of International Justice, A.-5, 9. Rules of procedure of the Assembly, A.-5, 9. Second : Economic, financial, and other technical questions— Communications and transit, A.-5, 14. Economic and financial questions, A.-5, 14. Health, A.-5, 13. League Committees, A.-5, 14. Nutrition, A.-5, 13. Third : Reduction and limitation of armaments, A.-5, 15. Fourth : Organization of the Secretariat and finances of the League— Allocation of expenses, A.-5, 18. Budget, A.-5, 16. Contributions in arrears, A.-5, 18. Staff Pensions Fund, A.-5, 17. Fifth : Humanitarian and social questions— Assistance to indigent foreigners, A.-5, 24. Child welfare, A.-5, 22. International Relief Union, A.-5, 25. Penal and penitentiary questions, A.-5, 24. Traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs, A.-5, 19. Traffic in women and children (and suppression of obscene publications), A.-5, 20. Sixth : Political questions— International co-operation, A.-5, 28. Mandates, A.-5, 31. Refugees, A.-5, 26. Credentials Committee, A.-5, 2. Election of President, A.-5, 3. Election of three non-permanent members of the Council. A.-5, 5. Special work of the New Zealand representative on the Council, A.-5, 31. Report of the representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the 95th (Extraordinary), 96th, and 97th Sessions of the Council of the League of Nations, Geneva, 1936 and 1937 — Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, A.-sb, 16. Appointments, A.-sb, 8, 16. To Committees of the League, A.-sb, 6. Civil war in Spain, A.-sb, 1-4, 28-34. Conference of central authorities in Eastern countries A.-sb, 17. Conference on the international repression of terrorism, A.-sb, 22. Dispute between Turkey and France concerning Syria and Lebanon, A.-sb, 5, 11, 16, 25. Financial Committee, A.-sb, 9, 17. Fiscal Committee, A.-sb, 6. Free City of Danzig, A.-sb, 11, 24. Frontier between Tanganyika and Mozambique, A.-sb, 7. Gift to the League (a contribution from Japan), A.-sb, 15. Health— Committee, A.-sb, 9, 10, 20, 23. Report of the health mission in Spain, A.-sb, 13. International assistance to refugees, A.-sb, 18. International Committee on intellectual co-operation, A.-sb, 18. Kingdom of Bulgaria stabilization Joan, A.-sb, 9. Mandates, A.-sb, 8. Permanent Mandates Commission, A.-sb, 24. Nutrition, A.-sb, 7. Permanent Central Opium Board, A.-sb, 7. Protection of minorities in Roumania, A.-sb, 24.

Ill —H.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS —continued. Report of the representative, &c. —continued. Raw materials, A.-sb, 10. Reform of the calendar, A.-sb, 9, 22. Request by the Zeltiveg-Wolfsberg and Unterdranburg Woellan Railway Co. of Vienna, A.-sb, 9, 24. Treaty of mutual guarantee between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Italy, A.-sb, 22. Women and children — Children and young persons in danger of neglect and delinquency, A.-sb, 21. Traffic in women and children, A -sb, 21. LEATHER AND PELTS— Research, H.-34, 9, 50. LEBANON— Future of, A.-sb, 5, 11, 16, 25. LENNOX, S. K.— Report on petition of, 1.-7, 1. LEVEL CROSSINGS. See under RAILWAYS. LIBRARIES— Alexander Turnbull, H.-22, 19. Country, assistance for, 8.-6, 20. General Assembly : Annual report, H.-32. National Art Gallery, H.-21, 9. LIGHTHOUSES. See under MARINE. LIQUOR AND DRUGSPermanent Central Opium Board, A.-sb, 7. Traffic in opium and other drugs, A.-5, 19. Western Samoa, A.-4, 21. LIVERPOOL COLLIERY. See under MINING INDUSTRY. LOANS— Conversion — Local Bodies, 8.-9, 1936, 1, 6. London, 8.-6, 19. New Zealand operations, 8.-6, 19. For industries, 8.-13 a, 13. Kingdom of Bulgaria stabilization loan : League of Nations report, A.-sb, 9. On Government and local bodies' debentures, 8.-9, 1937, 9. State Advances Corporation local loan: Prospectus, 8.-6, xix. LOCAL BILLS COMMITTEE. See under COMMITTEES. LOCAL BODIES— Advances to, from Public Works Department, D.-l, 172. Contact with, by Public Works Department, D.-l, 171. Loans — Conversion, 8.-9, 1936, 1, 6. On debentures ot, 8.-9, 1937, 9. Mortgage finance, 8.-6, 6. Sinking funds, 8.-9, 1937, 11. LOCAL GOVERNMENT— Reform, H.-22, 5. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMALGAMATION SCHEMES) BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-6, 2. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMALGAMATION SCHEMES) BILL COMMITTEE, SELECT. See under COMMITTEES. LOCAL LEGISLATION BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 4. McCARDLE, K. J. B.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. McINNES, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. MacKENZIE, J. S.— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. MACHINERY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. MAIN HIGHWAYS. See under PUBLIC WORKS.

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MANDATES— League of Nations' report, A.-5, 31 ; A.-58, 8, 24. MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATIONS— Report, H.-44, 21. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES— Statistics relating to, H.-44, 22, 36-40. MAORI AFFAIRS. See NATIVE AFFAIRS. MAORIS ANTIQUES ACT, 1908— Report, H.-22, 14. MARIA RIMAHANA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. MARINE— Department— Annual report — Admiralty charts, H.-15, 11. Boilers and machinery inspection, H.-15, 14, 42. Coastal survey, H.-15, 2. Examinations, H.-15, 6, 12, 31, 40. Finance, H.-15, 2. Fisheries, H.-15, 12, 20-33, 44-49. Marine Fish Hatchery and Biological Station, Portobello, H.-15, 26. Foreshores and wharves : Control, H.-15, 8. Form and colour vision, H.-15, 11. Government shipping offices, H.-15, 12. Harbour Board legislation, H.-15, 7. Harbours, H.-15, 3, 14. International Marine Conventions, H.-15, 7. Land engineers, engine-drivers, and electric-tram drivers, H.-15, 18, 43. Legislation, H.-15, 50. Lifeboatmen, H.-15, 11. Lighthouses, H.-15, 6, 35. Marine engineers, H.-15, 18, 36. Masters and mates, H.-15, 11, 36. New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, H.-15, 7. New Zealand's standards, H.-15, 18. Notices to mariners, H.-15, 11. Orders in Council under Parts I and 11, Fisheries Act, 1908, H.-15, 46. Prosecutions, H.-15, 19. Radio beacons, H.-15, 7. Safe working loads, H.-15, 14. Seamen, H.-15, 12, 34, 35. Sea water : Average temperature, H.-15, 46. Shipping— Casualties, H.-15, 11, 37-41, 42. Laws, H.-15, 7. Registration, H.-15, 12. Wireless, H.-15, 2. Ships— Compasses, H.-15, 11. Staff, H.-15, 18. Survey, H.-15, 12. Westport Harbour, H.-15, 3, 4. Whaling, H.-15, 13, 19, 48. Fishing industry— Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 26, 31. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report, H.-44A— Act, Fisheries : Amendments required, H.-44a, 96. Administration, H.-44A, 94-96. Appointment of Committee, H.-44a, 2. Aquaria, public, H.-44a, 93-94. Assistance to industry, H.-44a, 92. Auction system, H.-44a, 48-52, 62-63, 67-68. Australian trawlers, H.-44a, 92. Biological stations, H.-44a, 93-94. Blue cod— Chatham Islands, H.-44a, 31. Cost of handling, H.-44a, 47. Export, H.-44A, 47. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 32-33. French Pass, il. 11a. 30. Size-limits for, H.-44a, 32. Recommendations, H.-44a, 31, 34. Bruised fish, H.-44a, 33. Canning, H.-44a, 65, 94. Chatham Islands, H.-44a, 31,%6. Company-promotion, H.-44a, 91. Conservational measures, effect of, H.-44a, 13. Consumption of fish, H.-44a, 4.

MARINE —continued. Fishing industry—continued. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report —continued. Crayfish, H.-44A, 34-36, 47. Danish-seining, H.-44a, 12-23. Danish-seining versus trawling, H.-44a, 21. Danish-seine vessels : Excessive number at Auckland, H.-44A, 20. Distribution of fish, H.-44A, 4. Drag netting (hand seines), H.-44a, 25-26. Earnings of fishermen,. H.-44A, 84-85. Eels, export of , H.-44a, 41. Evidence : Amount of and method of taking, H.-44 A, 2. Export, internal marketing and co-ordination, H.~44a, 65-68. Export trade, H.-44a, 3, 5, 41-47. Explosives, destruction of fish by, H.-44a, 90-91. Fisheries Act : Amendments required, H.-44A, 96. Fishermen, number of, H.-44a, 3. Fishermen's reserves, H.-44a, 89-90. Fish-traps (Tiraus), H.-44A, 27. Flat fish— Landings at Napier, 1931-37, H.-44a, 10. Legal size of, H.-44a, 87. Fleet, value of the fishing, H.-44A, 3. Flounder-production at Thames, H.-44A, 16-17. Food-value of fish, H.-44a, 3. Hapuka (groper)— Cook Strait area, H.-44a, 27-28. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 33. Otago, H.-44a, 27. Harbour facilities, H.-44a, 72-78. Insurance of fishing-vessels, H.-44A, 88. Investments in the industry, H.-44a, 2. Lake Ellesmere outlet, H.-44A, 91. Legal size of fish, H.-44a, 87. Licensing— Export, H.-44A, 83. Fishermen, H.-44A, 84. Fishing, H.-44a, 84. Recommendations, H.-44A, 84. Line fishing— Dan lines and " windy " buoys, H.-44a, 27. 28. Hand lines, H.-44a, 30-31. Long lines, H.-44a, 29-30. Marine Products, Ltd., H.-44a , 47. Masters of fishing-vessels, H.-44 Jl, 87. Mollymawks, H.-44a, 30, 32. Offal, H.-44A, 85-86. Order of reference, H.-44A, 2. Oysters, dredge— Canning, H.-44a, 65. Marketing, H.-44a, 63-65, 68. Medicinal preparations, H.-44a, 65. Production— Akaroa, H.-44A, 38. Costs, H.-44a, 63. Dunedin, H.-44a, 37-38. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 36-38. Oystermen : Rates of pay, H.~44a, 63. Oysters, rook, H.-44a, 38-40. Pilchards, H.-44a, 26. Power-drawn net-fishing vessels— Gisborne, 1926-37, H.-44a, 10. Nelson, 1926-37, H.-44a, 13. Napier, 1926-37, H.-44A, 9. Timaru, 1926-37, H.-44a, 7. Price— Of fish, H.-44A, 4. Range of wholesale at Christchurch, H.-44a, 51. Spread, H.-44a, 5, 60. Rough fish at Auckland, H.-44A, 58. Tauranga, H.-44a, 56. Production : Progressive drop at Tauranga, H.-44a, 15. Quinnat salmon, H.-44a, 94. Refrigeration, H.-44a, 78-83. Research work : Surveys, &c., H.-44a, 88-89. Retail trade, H.-44a, 48-63. Salmon, quinnat, H.-44A, 94. Sardines, H.-44a, 26. Seals, H.-44a, 91-92. Set nets, H.-44A, 20-25. Snapper versus tarakihi, H.-44a, 58. Special nets, H.-44a, 26. Statistics, H.-44a, 95. Stewart Island Canneries, Ltd, H.-44a, 65. Sunday sale of fish, H.-44a, 90.

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MARINE —continued. Fishing industry—continued,. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report —continued. Survey of fishing-vessels, H.-44a, 87-88. Tiraus (fish-traps), H.-44a, 27. Toheroas, H.-44A, 40, 94. Transport and shipping, H.-44A, 4, 41-43, 61-71. Trawlers — Australian, H.-44a, 92. Value for defence purposes, H.-44a, 11. Trawling, H.-44A, 6-12. Tuna fishery, H.-44A, 92-93. Wastage in dressing fish, cost of, H.-44a, 47, 61. Waste fish, utilization of, H.-44A, 85-86. Whitebait, H.-44a, 40-41. Witnesses, number of, H.-44a, 2. Wholesale firms at Auckland, H.-44a, 43. Wholesale trade, H.-44A, 48-63. Harbour-works, D.-l, xxxvi, 57. Lighthouses, D.-l, xxxvi. Port and harbour services, Western Samoa, A.-4, 5. Radio beacons : Expenditure, 8.-6, 22. Shipping — Arrangements, Primary Products Marketing Department, 8.-6, 7. Cook Islands, A.-3, 2. Imperial Conference, 1937, report on, A.—7, 18. Mail services, F.-l, 6, 18. New steamship lines : Dutch East Indies and Japan, H.-44, 19. Niue Island, A.-6, 6. Primary Products Marketing Department report, H.-30, 24. Radio-telegram rates to shipping at sea, F.-l, 24. Tourist shipping and cruises, H.-2, 3. Western Samoa, A.-4, 5, 13. MARKETING — Primary products— Budget Statement, 8.-6 — Dairy Industry Account, 8.-6, 8. Department, 8.-6, 7. Guaranteed price— Current year's, 8.-6, 9. Origin, 8.-6, 8. High quality essential, 8.-6, 9. Internal — Butter and cheese, 8.-6, 12. Honey and eggs, 8.-6, 12. Local markets, 8.-6, 11 Pieot Bros. : Acquisition, 8.-6, 11. New markets, 8.-6, 7. Season's results, 8.-6, 8. Shipping arrangements, 8.-6, 7. Success of policy, 8.-6, 7. Department : Annual report, H.-30 — Accounts — Annual, H.—3o, 36, 39-45. Dairy companies, H.-30, 33. Advertising and publicity, H.-30, 22. Arrivals at United Kingdom ports, H.-30, 15. ButterConsumption, H.-30, 21. Imports, H.-30, 30, 46. Prices, H.-30, 30, 50. Purchases, quality of, H.-30, 8. Cheese — ' nsumption, H.-30, 21. Imports, H.-30, 32, 46. Prices, H.-30, 30, 52. Purchases, quality of, H.-30, 9. Cold storage in United Kingdom, H.-30, 26. Costs of — Dairy companies, H.-30, 33, 34. Farm working and maintenance, H.-30, 5. Dairy industry in Great Britain, H.-30, 20. Dairy-produce, purchase of, by Crown, H.-30, 4. Exports— From New Zealand ports, H.-30. 11. To West Coast ports, United Kingdom, H.-30,15, 47 F. 0.8. selling, H.-30. 19. Freight rates, H.-30, 26. Ghee, H.-30, 32. Gradings— 1935-36 and 1936-37, H.-30, 10. Quality percentages, H.-30, 8. Guaranteed prices. 1936-37 and 1937-38, H.-30, 7. Imports into United Kingdom— Butter, H.-30, 30, 46. ' Cheese, H.-30, 32, 46.

MARKETING —continued. Primary products —continued. Department: Annual report —continued. Insurance rates, H.-30, 26. Internal Marketing Division, H.-30, 37. Margarine and butter consumption, H.-30, 21. Market conditions, 1936-37, H.-30, 28. Marketing methods — Effect of elimination of F. 0.8. sales, H.-30, 19. History of, H.-30, 11. Objective of Department, H.-30, 14. Payouts by dairy companies, 11.- 30, 33, 34. Prices— Average of eight to ten years for guaranteed-price basis, H.-30, 4. Guaranteed purchase, 1936-37 and 1937-38, H.-30, 7. In London, H.-30, 30. Paid and realized. H. -30, 36. Trend, 1936-37, H.-30, 28. Primary Products Marketing Act, H.-30, 3. Procedure of payment, &c., in New Zealand, H.-30, 9. Quality— Of produce purchased, H.-30, 8. Premiums for, H.-30, 7. Sales — To ports outside United Kingdom, H.-30, 27. In United Kingdom : Weekly graph, H.-30, 12, 13. Shipments to— West Coast ports, United Kingdom, H.-30, 15, 47. Outside markets, H.-30, 27. Shipping, H.-30, 24. Shipping inspection, H.-30, 25. Storage in United Kingdom, H.-30, 26. Store warrant advances, H.-30, 10. World trade in butter and cheese, H.-30, 49, 54. Fruit and vegetables, investigation into marketing and handling of, H.-44, 30. Fishing industry, H.-44a, 65-68. MARRINER, G.Report on petition of, 1.-3, 10. MARRINER, G., AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-3, 10. MARRYAT, E.— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. MARSICH, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2; MARTIN, C. A. B.— Report on petition of, I,- 12, 3. MATERNAL WELFARE. See under HEALTH. MATTHEWS, E. M.— Report on petition of, I,- 12. 3. MAUNGAPOHATU VILLAGE — Dental condition and diet of the Maoris in, H.-31, 64. MEIKLE, J. J.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. MENTAL DEFECTIVES ACT, 1911Administration of estates of persons under disability, 8.-9, 1936, 4. MENTAL HOSPITALS. See under HEALTH. MERE TE IWINGARO WAIRAMA AND OTHERS — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 12. METEOROLOGICAL— Cook Islands, A.-3, 14. Niue Island, A.-6, 6. Scientific and Industrial Research Department report, H.-34, 6, 131. Telegraphic weather reports, F.-l, 23. Western Samoa, A.-4, 23. MIGRATION — Cook Islands, A.-3, 6. MILES, I. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 4. MILLIGAN, C. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2.

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MINERAL PRODUCTION. See under MINING. MINING AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-4, 2. MINING INDUSTRY— Annual Mines Statement, C.-2— Appendices : Reports relating to — Inspection of coal-mines, C.-2, 59-83. Metalliferous mines and stone quarries, C.-2, 20-58. Report of Board of Examiners, C.-2, 86-99. Carbonizing and briquetting, C.-2, 6. Coal-miners' Relief Fund, C.-2, 12. Coal-mining, C.-2, 4. Coal-mining legislation, C.-2. Co-operative mining, State Coal Reserve, C.-2, 7. Geological survey, C.-2, 10. Gold and silver mining, C.-2, 1-3. Goldfields revenue and gold duty, C.-2, 3. Laboratory investigations, C.-2, 6. Miners' pensions—Pensions Act, 1926, C.-2, 11. Mining privileges, C.-2, 3. New avenues of coal-utilization, C.-2, 5. Petroleum oil, C.-2, 3, 4. Rescue stations, C.-2, 5, 6. School of Mines, C.-2, 10. Social amenities in mining townships, C.-2, 6. Staff, C.-2, 12, 13. State aid to mining, C.-2, 12, 13 — Government prospecting drills, C.-2, 12. Roads and tracks, C.-2, 12. School of Mines, C.-2, 12. Subsidized prospecting—Subsidies to unemployed to prospect for gold, C.-2, 12, 13. State coal-mines, C.-2, 7-10— Development of new area, C.-2, 9. Housing, C.-2, 9. Items from balance-sheet, C.-2, 9. Output and sales, C.-2, 8. Statistics — Coal-mining, C.-2, 4. Gold and silver mining, C.-2, 3. Mineral production, C.-2, 1. Mining and quarry accidents, C.-2, 7. Persons employed in or about mines and stone-quarries, C.-2, 7. Wastage of coal, C.-2, 5. Tables— CoalExports, bunker and cargo, C.-2, 18. Imports, C.-2, 18. Output from different fields, C.-2, 16. Output of different classes, C.-2, 16. Coal and oil-shale : Annual production and coal imported since 1878, C.-2, 17. Export of minerals and coal-output, C.-2, 14. GoldQuantity and value exported from districts and counties or boroughs, C.-2, 15. Quantity of gold exported annually from 1857, C.-2, 16. Persons employed in mining, C.-2, 19. Qualifications of dredge masters, C.-2, 10. Coal— State mines : Annual report, C.-2a— James Colliery, C.-2a, 2. Liverpool Colliery, C.-2a, 1. Statement of accounts, &c., C.-2a, 4-12. Mines Department, Public securities held by, 8.-10, 15. Miners' pensions, H.-18, 5. Mining privileges in State forests, C.-3, 2. Western Samoa, A.-4, 25. MINORITIES— Protection of, in Roumania, A.-sb, 24. MORTGAGES— Mortgage finance : Budget Statement— Adjustments effected to date, 8.-6, 6. Lending rates, 8.-6, 6. Local authorities, 8.-6, 6. Mortgage Adjustment Commissions, 8.-6, 5. New loan-moneys, 8.-6, 6. State Advances Corporation, 8.-6, 6. Uneconomic areas, 8.-6, 6. MORTGAGORS AND LESSEES REHABILITATION ACT, 1936— Operations of, 8.-9, 1937, 6. State Advances Corporation report, 8.-13 a, 16.

MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY— Cinematograph Films Act, H.-22, 18. Films censorship, H.-22, 19. Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 34. MOTOR-VEHICLES. See under TRANSPORT. MOTUEKA BOROUGH COUNCIL EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 2. MOZAMBIQUE — Frontier with Tanganyika, A.-sb, 7. MUSIC— School, F.-l, 37. MUTU KARAITIANA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. NAPIER HARBOUR BOARD LOAN AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 3. NASH, Hon. W., M.P.— Visit to United Kingdom, &c., H.-44, 27. NATIONAL ART GALLERY AND DOMINION MUSEUM— Report of the Board of Trustees for the year, H.-21— Board of Trustees, H.-21, 1. Committees of Management, H.-21, 1— Carrillon : Annual report, H.-21, 11. Dominion Museum : Annual report, H.-21, 7. National Art Gallery : Annual report, H.-21, 4. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Board of Trustees : Treasurer's report, H.-21, 11. NATIONAL BROADCASTING. See BROADCASTING. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SPORT AND RECREATION— Proposed Council, &c., H.-22, 2. NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS— Report for the year, with schedule showing aggregate area of land excluded from the endowment, C.-14. NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND— Annual report of Board, H.-17. Statement of amounts paid into, by way of State subsidv, H.-17A. NATIONALITY QUESTIONS— Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 14, 17. NATIVE AFFAIRS— Department : Annual report, G.-9— Board of Native Affairs, G.-9, 2. Departmental organization and staff, G.-9, 5. District reports, G.-9, 6-11. East Coast Trust lands, G.-9, 4. General Maori welfare, G.-9, 2. General report, G.-9, 1. Maori Land Boards, G.-9, 3. Native hostelries, G.-9, 6. Native housing, G.-9, 5. Native Land Courts, G.-9, 4— Alienations of land, G.-9, 6, 13. Business and fees, G.-9, 12. Native-land development and assistance to Maori farmers, G.-9, 2. Native-land laws, G.-9, 4. Native-land purchase— Blocks acquired but not proclaimed Crown lands, G.-9, 13. Blocks fully acquired and proclaimed Crown lands, G.-9, 13. Blocks fully acquired and under negotiation, G.-9, 14. Native Trustee, G.-9, 3. Promotion of employment amongst Maoris, G.-9, 2. Education— Native children : Annual report, E.-3. Schools : Minister's report, E.-l, 33. Health : Maori nurses, H.-31, 45. Lands — Development: Report of Board of Native Affairs, G.-10— Area and population under schemes, stations, and farms, G.lO, 92. East Coast Native Trust lands, G.lO, 89-90.

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NATIVE AFFAIRS —continued. Lands —continued. Development: Report of Board of Native Affairs —contd. Finance — Cash receipts for the year, G.-10, 94. Receipts and payments accounts for the vear, G.-10, 91. State schemes : Total receipts from districts, G.-10, 94. General report, G.-10, 3. Live-stock returns for the year, G.-10, 93. Maori Land Board activities, G.-10, 79-82. Native Trust stations, G.-10, 83-88. Principal development and farming activities undertaken during the year, G.-10, 92. State development schemes — Aotea Maori Land District, G.-10, 70-74. Ikaroa and South Island Maori Land District, G.-10, 74-78. Tairawhiti Maori Land District, G.-10, 62-69. Tokarau Maori Land District, G.-10, 6-14. Waiariki Maori Land District, G.-10, 27-61. Waikato-Maniapoto Land District, G.-10, 15-26. East Coast Native Trust lands— Balance-sheet and statement of accounts for the year, G.-3— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 11. Mangatu Nos, 1, 3, and 4 Blocks : Balance-sheets and statements of accounts for the year, G.-4— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 11. Report of the Board of Native Affairs on, G.-10, 89. Surveys, C.-la, 2. Native Purposes Act, 1935 : Report and recommendation on petition of — Potikai leni Tapihana, G.-6a. Tarehurangi Te Waari, G.-6. Native Purposes Act, 1936 : Report and recommendation on petition of — Tupito Maruera and others, G.-6c. Tutawa Paraeroa and others, G.-6b. Waaka Te Arakai and others, G.-6a. Niue Island, A.-6, 4. LTnemployment, H.-IIA, 12. Western Samoa, A.-4, 3, 17. NATIVE PURPOSES BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 10. NATIVE TRUSTEE — Public securities held by, 8.-10, 23. NATURALIZATION— H.-22, 14. NAVY. See under DEFENCE. NEILSON, K.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. NETHERLANDS— Exchange of notes constituting a trade agreement between New Zealand and the Netherlands, A.-8. NEW HEBRIDES— Imperial Conference, 1937, report on, A.-7, 21. NEW PLYMOUTH AIRPORT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 2 ; 1.-16, 2. NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 2. NEW ZEALAND BROADCASTING BOARD. See under BROADCASTING. NEW ZEALAND CENTENNIAL, 1940 Preliminary Conference, &c., H.-22, 1 ; H.-44, 34. NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF CLERKS OF WORKS BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-9, 1. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — Publication, &c., H.-34, 80. NEW ZEALAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE— Report, H.-32, 4.

NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURERS' FEDERATION— Report, H.-44, 21. NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE. TABLES — Publication H.-15, 11. NEW ZEALAND ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL— Report, D.-l, 170. NEW ZEALAND STANDARDS INSTITUTE— Report, H.-44, 35. NEW ZEALAND WORKERS' UNION— Agreement with Public Works Department, D.-l, i. NIUE ISLAND— Administration, public securities held by, 8.-10, 24. Administration, report of, for the year — Agriculture, A.-6, 5. Education, A.-6, 5. Finance, A.-6, 1, 7. High Court and Native Land Court, A.-6, 5. Island Council, A.-6, 6. Legislation, A.-6, 6. Medical and public health, A.-6, 4. Meteorological, A.-6, 6. Native Affairs, A.-6, 4. Postal, A.-6, 6. Public works and transport, A.-6, 5. Shipping, A.-6, 6. Trade, A.-6, 1-3. Visits, A.-6, 6. Vital statistics, A.-6, 6. Wireless, A.-6, 6. Trade with, H.-44, 15. NGAHINA TIWAI POMARE AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. NGAPERA PARATA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. NGOHENGOHE TAERA — Report on petition of, 1.-33. NOLAN, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 4. NORTHERN COOK ISLANDS GROUP— Installation of radio-stations, F.-l, 27. NOXIOUS WEEDS. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. NURSES. See under HEALTH. NUTRITION. See under HEALTH. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS— Supression, A.-5, 20. OBSERVATORIES. See under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. OFFENDERS PROBATION. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS. OIL. See PETROL. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. See under PENSIONS. ONION-GROWING. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. ONYON, C.— Reports on petitions of, 1.-2, 3. OPIUM. See*ander LIQUOR AND DRUGS. OPOSSUMSTrapping, C.-3, 2. O'SHEA, P. J.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 4. PACIFIC COUNTRIES— Education — Conference on Native education, Honolulu, E.-3, 3. Schools : Inspection, E.-3, 7. Radio-stations, public, opening of, F.-l, 24.

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PACIFIC ISLANDS— Trade with, H.-44, 13. PARLIAMENT— Broadcast of proceedings, F.-3, 3. PASSPORTS— H.-22, 14. PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS— Annual report, with statement of accounts, H.-10. PAYNE, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. PENAL QUESTIONS. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS. PENSIONS— Department— Annual report — Administration : Cost, H.-18, 4. Family allowances, H.-18, 4, 5. Legislation, H.-18, 4. Blind, H.-18, 5. Invalidity, H.-18, 5. Miners, H.-18, 5. Old-age, H.-18, 4. Statistics, H.-18, 6. Organization, H.-18. 6. Payments on behalf of other Governments, H.-18, 2. Pensions — Civil, H.-18, 4. Granted, deaths, and cancellations in each year with number in force, H.-18, 7. In force : Annual value and total payments, H.-18, 1. Military (Maori War), H.-18, 5. War, H.-18, 5. Appeals, H.-18, 3. Economic, H.-18, 3. Payable outside New Zealand, H.-18, 3. Pensioners — Deaths amongst, H.-18, 3. Loading paid on life-insurance policies, H.-18, 3. Medical treatment : Costs, H.-18, 3. Railway concessions, H.-18, 3. Summary of annual liability, H.-18, 2. Summary of payments, H.-18, 2. Temporary : Increase, H.-18, 3. War veterans' allowances, H.-18, 3. Appeals, H.-18, 4. Increase : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 4. Miners, C.-2, 11. Statement of amounts paid on account of, for the financial years ended 31st March, from 1933 to 1937, 8.-6, xiii. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE— League of Nation's report, A.-5, 9. PERRELLE DE LA, L. G., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-10, 1. PETROL (see also under TRANSPORT)— Mines Statement report, C.-2, 3, 4. Prices, &c., H.-44, 32. PETROLEUM BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 6 ; 1.-4, 2. PHYSICAL EDUCATION— Expenditure, 8.-6, 21. PICOT BROS.— Acquisition by Government, 8.-6, 11. • PILLING, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. PIRIHIRA KARENA AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 11. PLANT AND MACHINERY. See under PUBLIC WORKS— PLATT, A.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. PLAYS AND SKETCHES— Broadcasting, F.-3, 3.

POLAR QUESTIONS — Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 21. POLICE — Cook and other Islands, A.-3, 13. Department: Annual report — Arms Bureau, H.-16, 6. Casualties, H.-16, 1. Criminal Registration Branch, H.-16, 5. Criminal statistics, H.-16, 1. Drunkenness, H.-16, 3. Efficiency, 11. Hi, 9. Gaming offences, H.-16, 3. General conduct of members of Force, H.-16, 10. Growth of Department, H.-.16, 4, 8. Number of offences reported, the number of offences for which persons were apprehended or summoned, and comparison of crime during the year with previous year : Return, H. -I 6, 17. Police Association : Formation, H.-16, 10. Police buildings, &c., H.-16, 7. Police Regulations, H.-16, 9. Proportion of Police Force to population and cost per inhabitant in various countries, II ,- 16, 23. Prosecutions, H.-16, 3, 5. Recreation, H.-16, 10. Reports (extracts) of officers in charge of districts, 11. Hi, 10. Serious crimes, H.-16, 2. Stations, H.—l6, 1. Strength of Force, H.-16, 21. Sly-grog selling, H.-16, 3. Training Depot, H.-16, 9. Transport, H.-16. 9. Expenditure, 8.-6, 22. Western Samoa, A.-4, 17. POLITICAL DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1936 - F.-l, 14. POOR KNIGHTS ISLANDS — Wild pigs : Destruction, H.-22, 13. POPULATION— Western Samoa, A.-4, 2, 6, 25, 26, 27. POST AND TELEGRAPH— Broadcasting : Wireless— Cook Islands, A.-3, 12. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. Cook Islands, A.-3, 12. Department— Annual report — Bicycles, F.-l, 17. Buildings and land, F.-l, 4, 16. Cables : Empire Cable Committee, F.-l, 4, 13. Cables, New Zealand submarine— Cook Strait cables, F.-l, 26. Foveaux Strait cables, F.-l, 26. Commercial branch, F.-l, 4, 15. Dead-letter office, F.-l, 21. Employment work, F.-l, 22. Examinations, F.-l, 15. Finance — Cable, radio-telegraph, and radio-telephone business transacted during the year as compared with previous year, F.-l, 39. Money-orders issued and money-orders payable in New Zealand since the year 1863, F.-l. 33. Paid telegrams and toll calls (including cable and radio messages and overseas toll calls) during the years ended 31st March, 1936 and 1937, F.-l, 38. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 12 — For the years 1881-82, 1891-92, 1901-2, 1911-1 1921-22, and following years, F.-l, 33. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 21, 35, 36. School savings -branch, F.-l, 22. Inspections, F.-l, 21. Letters and letter-cards, post-cards, book-packets, newspapers and parcels, posted and delivered in the postal-districts of New Zealand during the year : Estimated number, F.-l, 37. Literature for the blind : Free transmission by post of talking-book records, F.-l, 18. Mail services— Air, F.-l, 6, 19. Inland, F.-l, 18. Ocean, F.-l, 6, 18. Mechanical office-appliances, F.-l, 17. Money-orders, F.-l, 21. Motor-vehicles : Departmental, F.-l, 17. Motor-vehicles and associated work: Registration, F.-l, 22. Parcel-post rates : Reduction, F.-l, 18.

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POST AND TELEGRAPH —continued. Department —continued. Annual report —continued. Parcels exchanged with other countries during the years 1935 and 1936 : Number and weight, F.-l, 34. Postage-stamps, F.-l, 6, 20. Postal business, F.-l, 5. Postal-notes, F.-l, 21. Postal-orders, British, F.-1,,21. Postal packets, missing, F.-l, 21. Post Office investment certificates, F.-l, 22. Post Office premises, &c. : Burglary, F.-l, 21. Radio-broadcasting— Aeradio services, F.-l, 10. Broadcasting reception : Interference, F.-l, 32. Broadcasting service, E.-l, 11, 32. Frequency measuring equipment, F.-l, 27. Overseas radio-telephone service, F.-l, 10, 23, 27. Press telegram service between Tonga and NewZealand, E.-l, 24. Private broadcasting stations, F.-l, 32. Private experimental stations, F.-l, 32. Public radio-stations in Pacific Islands, F.-l, 24. Radio-dealers' licenses, F.-l, 32. Radio-stations in Northern Cook group : Installation, F.-l, 27. Radio-telegrams, F.-l, 24. Radio-telegraph and telephone services, F.-l, 26. Receiving-station licenses, F.-l, 32. Ship-to-shore and other private radio-telephone services, F.-l, 27. Rates and charges : Booklet, F.-l, 18. Staff, E.-l, 4, 12— Appeal Board, F.-l, 14. Engineering officers : Visit to Australia, E.-l, 4. Permanent: Health, F.-l, 13. Personal, F.-l, 13. Political Disabilities Removal Act, 1936, E.-l, 14. Persons employed in the Department, F.-l, 13. Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936, E.-l, 14. Post and Telegraph Officers' Sick Benefit Fund, F.-l, 4, 14. Promotion Board, F.-l, 14. Protective clothing to members of line construction and maintenance staff, F.-l, 17. Salaries — Forty-hour week, F.-l, 13. Increase, F.-l, 13. Minimum wage for male officers of adult age, F.-l, 13. Regrading, E.-l, 13. Regulations : Amendment, F.-l, 13. Telegraph-training schools, F.-l, 14. Stamp-vending machines, F.-l, 21. Stores Branch, F.-l, 15. Suggestion Board, E.-l, 15. Telegraph and telephones — Birthday and congratulatory telegrams : F.-l, 23. Carrier-current telephone systems, E.-l, 25. Charges— Dunedin suburban districts, F.-l, 28. Private-line circuits, E.-l, 29. Inland Christmas and New Year greetings telegram service, F.-l, 23. Inter-island telegraph and telephone communication channels, F.-l, 9. Poles and wires, F.-l, 26. Public cable offices, F.-l, 29. Summary of operations, F.-l, 29. Switchboard accommodation, and installation of new exchanges, F.-l, 29. Telegraph and telephone communication : Maintenance, F.-l, 25. Telegragh and toll systems : Extension, F.-l, 25. Telegraph batteries and power supply, F.-l, 23. Telegraph service, F.-l, 7, 23. For Meteorological Offices, F.-l, 23. Telephone-exchanges — Additional press telegraph facilities on Sundays, F.-l, 24. Appointment of managers and change of control at main centres, F.-l, 14. Machine printing circuits, opening, F.-l, 23. Services, F.-l, 7, 23. Telephone service to school dental clinics, E.-l, 28. Telephone statistics, F.-l, 30. Toll service, F.-l, 8, 23, 24. Workshops, F.-l, 16. Work performed for other Departments, F.-l, 22. Public securities held by, 11. 10, 2. Niue Island, A -6, 6. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4.

POTIKAI lENI TAPIHANA — Report and recommendation on petition of, 0.-6 A ; Ī.-3, 5. PRESS — Additional telegram facilities on Sundays, F.-l, 24. Telegraph service between Tonga and New Zealand, F. I, '21. PRICES— Butter, H.-30, 30, 50. Cement, H.-44, 32. Cheese, H.-30, 30, 50. Control, H.-44, 24. Fertilizers, H.-44, 32. Fish, H.-44A, 4, 5, 51, 56, 58, 60. Fixation, 13.-6, 13. Guaranteed, H.-29, 35 ; H.-30, 4, 7. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 8, 9. Higher : Overseas, 8.-6, 1. Petrol, H.-44, 32. Timber, H.-44, 32. Trend of, for the year, H.-30, 28. PRIMARY PRODUCTS MARKETING DEPARTMENT. See under MARKETING. PRINTING AND STATIONERY DEPARTMENT— Annual report for the year, together with statement of accounts, H.-36. PRISONS. See JUSTICE AND PRISONSPUBLIC ACCOUNTS— Abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the Public Accounts of New Zealand for the year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-l [Pt. I] — Abstract of the Public Accounts— Receipts and expenditure— Consolidated Fund— Accounts of Local Bodies, 8.-l [Pt. I], 10. Deposits Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 10. Ordinary Revenue Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 4. Public Works Fund— Electric Supply Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 16. Electric Supply Sinking Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 16. General Purposes Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 14. Other Accounts— Bank of New Zealand Shares Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 16. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 18. Employment Promotion Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I], 20. Land for Settlement Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 20. Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 22. Main Highways Account Construction Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I], 24. Public Account Cash Balance Investment Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 32. Public Debt Repayment Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 26. Remittances from London Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 26. Remittances to London Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 26, Reserve Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 28. Silver and Bronze Coin Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 28. State Coal-mines Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 28. State Coal-mines Sinking Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 30. State Forests Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 30. Summary of Balances, 8.-l [Pt. I], 34. Working Railways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 32. Civil List Act,1920, 8.-l [Pt. I], 39. Issues compared with the sums voted under Appropriation Act, 1936, 8.-l [Pt. I], 35. Summary of certified statements of liabilities, 8.-l [Pt. I], 47. Unauthorized Expenditure Account — Broadcasting Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 46. Consolidated Fund— Ordinary Revenue Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Dairy Industry Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45. Main Highways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 44. Post Office Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45. Public Trust Office Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45. Public Works Fund— General Purposes Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 44. Silver and Bronze Coin Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45. State Forest Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45. Statement of surplus credit-in-aid applied in terms of section 51 (3) of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, 8.-l [Pt. I], 46. Summary, 8.-l [Pt. I], 46. Unemployment Fund, 13.-1 [Pt. I], 55. Working Railways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 45.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1936-37, audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV] — Agriculture Department— Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 114. Moumahaki Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 122. Nauru and Ocean Islands Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 121. Orchard-tax, 1927, Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 123. Ruakura Farm of Instruction, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 117. Weraroa Agricultural Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 124. Arawa District Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 5. Audit Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 4. Bank of New Zealand Shares Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 7. British Phosphate Commissioners, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 121. Census and Statistics, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 7. Cheviot Estate, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 52. Crown Law Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 8. Customs Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV]. 9. Dairy Industry Loans, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 148. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 10. Electoral Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 13. Electric Supply Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 155. Employment Promotion Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 14. Explanatory Memorandum. 8.-l [Pt. IV], 3. External Affairs, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 15. Government Fire Insurance Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 16. Government Life Insurance Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 17. Government Stores Marine Insurance Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 18. Hauraki Plains Settlement Scheme, 8.-l. [Pt. IV], 19. Health, 8.-l [Pt. IV]. 125. Housing, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 95. Howard Estate, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 21. Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Scheme, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 52. Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 22. Justice Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 29. Kauri-gum Industry, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 37. Labour Department— Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 38. Employment Division, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 149. Immigration, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 39. Land and Deeds Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 131. Land for Settlements Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 52. Lands and Survey Department— Auckland Museum Endowment Account, 8.-l. [Pt. IV], 40. Bluff Harbour Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 41. Clutha River Trust Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 41. Geraldine County River Board Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 42. Gore High School Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 42. Greymouth Technical and Hokitika High Schools Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 43. National Endowment Account, 8.-I [Pt. IV], 44. New Zealand University Endowment (Westland) Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 45. North Island Experimental Dairy School Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 46. Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 47. Otago University Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 48. Taranaki Scholarship Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV]. 49. Victoria College Endowment Account, 8.-1 FPt. IV], 50. Waipiata-Hamilton Library Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 50. Wairoa Harbour Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 51. Wanganui Harbour Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 51. Legislative, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 60. Main Highways Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 151. Marine Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 61. Mental Hospitals, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 134. Mines Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 66. Miscellaneous Advances from Consolidated Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 150. National Broadcasting, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 69. National Commercial Broadcasting, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 70. National Provident Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 72. National Provident Fund and Friendly Societies Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 71.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Balance-sheets and statement of accounts —continued. Naval Defence, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 73. New Zealand Broadcasting Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 68. Pensions Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 138. Police Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 140. Prime Minister's Department, B -1 [Pt. IV], 74. Printing and Stationery Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 74. Public Service Commissioner's Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 76. Public Service Superannuation Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 77. Public Trust Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 80. Railways Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 82. Railways Superannuation Fund, 8.-l [Pt. TV], 89. Rangitaiki Land Drainage Scheme, 8.-l. [Pt. IV], 92. Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 93. Samoan Loan Suspense Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 150. Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 142. Stamp Duties Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 145. State Advances Corporation, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 94. State Coal-mines, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 97. State Fire Insurance Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 104. State Fire Insurance Office — Accident Branch, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 105. State Forest Service, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 106. Swamp Land Drainage Schemes, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 110. Transport Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 146. Treasury Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 112. Valuation Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 147. Westport Harbour Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 113. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1935-36, audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936] — Administration of Western Samoa, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 57. Agriculture Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV. Sup. to 1936], 3. Arawa District Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 59. Ellesmere and Forsyth and Akaroa Railway Trust Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 13. External Affairs Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 14. Greymouth Harbour Board Special Coal Rate, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 61. Howard Estate, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 89. Immigration, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 24. Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 15. Justice and Prisons, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 24. Kauri-gum Industry Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936}, 39. Labour Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 23. Lands and Survey Department— Crown Lands, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 10. Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 26. Surveys of Native Land, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 53.' Marine Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 40. Mental Hospitals Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 33. Mines Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 37. Mining Advances Account, 8.-l [Pt. TV, Sup. to 1936], 39. Native Department— Arawa District Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 59. Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 45. District Maori Land Boards, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 27. Maori Purposes Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 85. Native Land Development Scheme, 8.-l [Pt. IV; Sup. to 1936], 63. Native Trustee, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 88. Naval Defence, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 62. New Zealand Broadcasting Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 64. New Zealand Separation Estates, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 65. Pensions Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 47. Post and Telegraph Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 67. Public Trust Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 70. Public Works Department: Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 72, Samoan Loan Suspense Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 80. State Balance-sheet, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 91. State Income and Expenditure Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 92. State Forest Service, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 49. Taranaki Maori Trust, 8.-I [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 81.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts —continued. Treasury : Miscellaneous, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 90. Tuwharetoa Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 83. Unemployment Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 54. Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 56. Westport Harbour Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV, Sup. to 1936], 57. Budget Statement — Commercial Broadcasting, 8.-6, 17. National Broadcasting Service, 8.-6, 17. Private stations, 8.-6, 17. Salaries and wages, 8.-6, 16. Social services, 8.-6, 16. Summary of year's transactions, 8.-6, 16. Surplus for year, 8.-6, 16. Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Controller and Auditor-General's report, 8.-l [Pt. II] — Auditor-General's report, 8.-l [Pt. ll], iii. Deposits Account— Details of receipts and disbursements of deposit accounts, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 31. Receipts and disbursements under the Trustee Act, 1908, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 44. Summary of Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 30. Detail statement of revenue — Ordinary revenue, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 2. Ordinary revenue, interest on Public Debt Redemption Fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 6. Ordinary revenue, interest on other public moneys, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 6. Ordinary revenue, miscellaneous revenue, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 8. Detail statement of transactions — Land for Settlement Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 46. Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 48. Temporary transfer under section 40 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 55. Disbursements under Civil List Act, 1920. (See 8.-l [Pt. I].) Disbursements under Rural Intermediate Credit Act, 1927, section 16, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. Disbursements under Special Acts — Debt services, administration and management, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 17. Debt services, amortization of debt— Repayment of funded debt, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Repayment of the Public Debt Act, 1925, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Repayment of advances, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Sinking fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Transfer to Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Debt services, interest, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 14. Debt services, payment on guaranteed loans, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 18. Other services, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 19. Imprests of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) outstanding, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. Imprests of the Public Works Fund (General Purposes Account) outstanding, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 45. Interest, Conversion and Redemption Remittance Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 1. Local bodies' accounts — Advance accounts. 8.-l [Pt. ll], 29. Endowment of land, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 26. Fees and fines, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 27. Goldfields revenue, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 26. Gold duty, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 27. Stamp duty on interest, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 29. Recoveries on account of expenditure of previous years— Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account), 8.-l [Pt. ll], 12. Land for Settlements Account, 8.-I [Pt. ll], 54. Main Highways Account — Revenue Fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 54. Public Works Fund (General Purposes Account), 8.-l [Pt. ll], 45. State Coal-mines Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 55. State Forests Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 55. Schedule of imperfect vouchers, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xviii. Statement of balances in respect of payments made on behalf of other governments, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. Statement of irregularities in connection with Public moneys and stores, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xv. Statement showing sums irrecoverable bv the Crown, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xix. Unauthorized expenditure. (See 8.-l [Pt. I].)

IV —H.

' PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Public Debt of the Dominion as on the 31st March, 1937, statement showing the, 8.-l [Pt. 11l] — Public Debt of New Zealand on 31st March, 1937— Public Debt, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 5. Public Debt funded in terms of section 8 of the Finance Act, 1922, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 11. Statement, as at 31st March, 1937, showing analysis of the Public Debt under the several purposes for which the moneys have been raised, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 16. Statement of loans guaranteed by the Government, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 12. Statement of securities issued under the Rural Advances Act, 1926, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 11. Statement of Sinking Funds accrued to the 31st March, 1937, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 13. Statement of receipts and disbursements of the Sinking Funds during the Financial year ended 31st March, 1937. 8.-l [Pt. Ill], 14. PUBLICATIONS— Department of Agriculture, H.-29, 18, 19. General Assembly Library, H.-32, 3. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, H.-38, 40. New Zealand Nautical Almanac of Tide-tables, H.-15, 11. News Bulletins, Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 35. Obscene : Supression, A.-5, 20. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. See under PUBLIC WORKS. PUBLIC DEBT. See DEBT. PUBLIC DOMAINS. See under LANDS. PUBLICITY (see also TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS AND PUBLICITY)— Primary Products Marketing Department, H. -30, 22. Railways Department, D.-2, xxvi, xxx. PUBLIC HEALTH. See HEALTH. PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE. See under COMMITTEES. PUBLIC PETITIONS. See under COMMITTEES. PUBLIC SECURITIES— Held in the Dominion or elsewhere, as on 31st March, 1937, return of, together with an account of all securities redeemed or otherwise disposed of during the year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-10 — Government Accident Insurance Office, 8.-10, 4. Government Insurance Office, 8.-10, 15. Lands and Survey Department, 8.-10, 24. Mines Department, B. 10, 15. Native Trustee, 8.-10, 23. Other securities (Department of Agriculture, Forestry, Industries and Commerce, Tourist and Publicity, Labour, Native, Pensions, Public Works, and Railways), 8.-10, 24. Post Office, 8.-10, 2. Public Trust Office, 8.-10, 19. State Advances Corporation (Housing Branch), 8.-10, 23. State Advances Office, 8.-10, 17. State Fire Insurance Office, 8.-10, 5. Summary, &c., 8.-10, 25. Treasury, 8.-10, 6. Westport Harbour, 8.-10, 23. PUBLIC SERVICE— Commissioners : Annual report — Administrative changes, H.-14, 14. Board of Appeal, H.-14, 12. Commissioners : Appointment, H.-14, 2. Conferences, H.-14, 18. Departmental examinations, H.-14, 13. Efficiency, H.-14, 10. Examination for shorthand-typists, 11. 14, 13. Expansion, H.-14, 4. General Regulations : Amendments, H.-14, 15. Officers — Abroad on duty, H.-14, 16. Leave of absence for educational and training purposes, H.-14, 16. Offences, H.-14, 16. On loan with other administrations, H.-14, 15. Public Service as a career, H.-14, 8. Public Service Superannuation, H.—l4, 9. Recruitment, H.-14, 7. Regrading : General quinquennial, H.-14, 2, 10.

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PUBLIC SERVICE —continued. Commissioners : Annual report —continued. Salaries, H.-14, 2, 3. Staff reporting, H.-14, 12. Statistical tables, H.-14, 19. Suggestions for improvement, H.-14, 18. Uniformity Committee, H.-14, 11. Working-hours : Reduction, H.-14, 13. Regrading : Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 13. Superannuation FundAnnual report, with accounts, H.-26. Commissioners' report, H.-14, 9. PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE— Accounts of, for the year ended 31st March, 1936, 8.-9 a. Accounts of, for the year ended 31st March, 1937, 8.-9 a. Annual report for the year ended 31st March, 1936 — Minister's Statement— New business, 8.-9, 1. Receivership and liquidation of companies, 8.-9, 2. Result of year's working, 8.-9, 2. Staff accommodation, 8.-9, 2. Value of estates and funds, 8.-9, 1. Wills on deposit, 8.-9, 2. Public Trustee's report— Administration of estates and kindred matters, 8.-9, 4. Finance, 8.-9, 7. Investments from the Common Fund, 8.-9, 6. New business, 8.-9, 3. Office buildings, 8.-9, 8. Office organization and representations, 8.-9, 8. Receivership and liquidation of certain companies, 8.-9, 5. Rural Intermediate Credit, 8.-9, 9. Staff, 8.-9, 8. Annual report for the year ended 31st March, 1937— Minister's Statement — New business, 8.-9, 3. Receivership and liquidation of certain companies, 8.-9, 4. Result of year's working, 8.-9, 4. Staff accommodation, 8.-9, 4. Value of estates and funds, 8.-9, 3. Wills on deposit, 8.-9, 3. Public Trustee's report— Administration of estates and kindred matters, 8.-9, 5. Finance, 8.-9, 11. Investments from the.Common Fund, 8.-9, 9. Legal division, 8.-9, 14. New business, 8.-9, 5. Office buildings, 8.-9, 14. Office organization and representation, 8.-9, 13. Receiverihip and liquidation of companies, 8.-9, 8. Rural Intermediate Credit, 8.-9, 14. Safe-deposit lockers, 8.-9, 12. Staff, 8.-9, 12. Public securities held by, 8.-10, 19. Western Samoa, A.-4, 5. PUBLIC WORKS— Annual statement, D.-l — Chief Electrical Engineer : Annual report—■ Broken wires and poles, D.-l, 97. Electrical accidents, D.-l, 99. Electrical wiremen : Registration, D.-l , 100. Electric-power Boards, D.-l, 93. Generating-schemes in operation— Design office, D.-l, 90. North Island electric-power system, D.-l, 75. South Island electric-power system, D.-l, 86. Tables : North Island and South Island Electricpower systems, D.-l, 103-57. Growth of load, D.-l, 98. Inspections of electric lines, also private generatingplants, D.-l, 98. Licenses and permits issued, D.-l, 99. Local electric-supply systems, D.-I, 94. Engineer-in-Chief : Annual report— Aerodromes : Establishment, D.-l, 59. Construction and improvement of roads and bridges, D.-l, 38. Designing office, D.-l, 70. Harbour-works, D.-l, 5-7. Hydro-electric development, D.-l, 38. Irrigation, D.-l, 34. Lands-improvement, D.-l, 51. Naval and defence works, D.-l, 69. Plant and mechanical equipment, D.-l, 63. Public buildings, D.-l, 70. Railways, D.-l, 26. Small-farms scheme, D.-l, 54. Tramways, D.-l, 69.

PUBLIC WORKS —continued. Annual statement —continued. Finance — Expenditure— And liabilities on public buildings out of Public Works Fund, D.-l, 12. For the year : Audited statement of expenditure out of Public Works Fund for the year, D.-l, 24. Railways, statement showing expenditure on, D.-l, 9. Total: Summary showing total expenditure out of Public Works Fund, D.-l, 2. Yearly out of Public Works Fund, 1914-15 to 1936-37, D.-l, 3. Irrigation and water-supply: Schedule of schemes completed or under construction and under investigation, D.-l, 21. Water-power development: Statement of accounts, D.-l, 13. Government Architect: Annual report on buildings, &c„ D.-l, 71. Main Highways Board : Annual report— Bridges, D.-l, 166, 168, 196. Bush preservation and amenity planting, D.-l, 172. Construction, D.-l, 195. Co-operation with Transport Department, D.-l, 174. Declarations and adjustments of main highwavs, D.-l, 174. Engineering services : Payment, D.-l, 170. Finance, D,-l, 159, 191, 194. Foremen and overseers of road construction: Examination, D.-l, 173. General, D.-l, 158. Highways materials, testing of, D.-l, 173. Legislation, D.-l, 158. Lengths of main highways, D.-l, 195. Local Authorities—• Advances, D.-l, 172. Contact with, D.-l, 171. Magnetic truck, D.-l, 173. Maintenance, D.-l, 162, 196. Mileage of main highways metalled and surfaced since inception of Board's operations (9th June, 1924), D.-l, 196. New Zealand Road Safety Council, D.-l, 170. Plant, D.-l, 172. Progress report, D.-l, 175. Promotion of employment, D.-l, 162. Railway level-crossings, elimination of, D.-l, 167. Renewals and improvements, D.-l, 163. Sign-posting, centre-line marking, &0., D.-l, 172. State-highways system, D.-l, 168. Tests of stone completed during the year, D.-l, 197. Traffic— Census, D.-l, 170. Control, D.-l, 173. Minister's report — Accidents, D.-l, v, xi. Aerodromes, D.-l, ii, vi, xxxi. Agreements with — New Zealand Workers' Union, D.-l, i. Young Men's Christian Association, D.-l, ii. Co-operative contract system, D.-l, i. Finance, D.—l, iii, iv, vii. Harbour-works, D.-l, xxxvi. Hydro-electric development, D.-l, v, vi, xx. Irrigation and water-supply, D.-l, vi, xxv. Lands-improvement, D.-l, xxvii. Lighthouses, D.-l, xxxvi. Main highways and roads, D.-l, x. Backblock, D.-l, iii. Highways made State highways, D.-l, vi. Improvement, D.-l, v. Roading system, D.-l, i. Roads other than main highways, D.-l, vi. Settlement and other roads, D.-l, xxiii. Plant, and machinery, D.-l, ii, iii, vii, xxxv. Public buildings, D.-l, vi. Railways, D.-l, xii. Construction, D.-l, iv, v, xii. Improvements and additions to open lines, D.-l, xix. Level crossings : Elimination, D.-l, v. River control and river maintenance, D.-l, vii. Social amenities, D.-l, i. Telegraph extension, D.-l, xxxii. Tourist and health resorts, D.-l, xxxiv. Unemployed workers— Employment, D.-l, v. Settlement, D.-l, xxxiv. Workmen— Accommodation, D.-l, ii. Training, D.-l, ii.

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PUBLIC WORKS —continued. Budget Statement — Employment promotion, 8.-6, 2. Government buildings centre, 8.-6, 14. Highways revenue, 8.-6, 23. Hydro-electricity development, 8.-6, 15. Lands-improvement, 8.-6, 15. Level-crossings elimination, 8.-6, 14. Public buildings, 8.-6, 14. Railway-construction, 8.-6, 13. Scope of, 8.-6, 13. Small-farms scheme, 8.-6, 15. Source of funds, 8.-6, 16. Total public-works programme, 8.-6, 15. Buildings, public : Construction, &c. — Hospitals, H.-31, 29. Police Department, H.-16, 7. Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 4, 16. Schools, &e., E.-l, 9 ; E.-2, 11. Native, E.-3, 7. Cook Islands, A.-3, 8. Fund— Appropriations chargeable on the Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7 a. Net expenditure under appropriations for the year compared with previous year, statement showing, 8.-6, x. Total ways and means of the Fund, General Purposes Account, and the total net expenditure for the year, 8.-6, xi. Main highways and roads— Mining townships : Subsidy, C.-2, 12. Surveys, C.-la, 2. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Western Samoa, A.--4, 25. RADIO BEACONS. See under MARINE. RAILWAYS— Annual statement, D.-2 — Balance-sheets and statements of accounts and statistical returns, 1936, D.-2, 1-31. General Manager's report — Advertising service, D.-2, xvii. Bookstall service, D.-2, xix. Branch lines, D.-2, xxix. Commercial Branch, D.-2, xxx. Departmental dwellings, D.-2, xxiii. Finance, D.-2, ix. Forestry Branch, D.-2, xxiv. Goods and live-stock, D.-2, xv. Isolated sections, D.-2, xxix. Lake Wakatipu steamers, D.-2, xxiii. Parcels, luggage, and mails, D.-2, Xiv. Passenger traffic, D.-2, xiii. Publicity, D.-2, xxx. Railway publicity, D.-2, xxvi. Refreshment service, D.-2, xviii. Road motor services, D.-2, xix. Sick Benefit Fund, D.-2, xxiii. Signal and electrical, D.-2, xxxiii. Staff, D.-2, xxi. Stores Branch, D.-2, xxiv. Subsidiary services, D.-2, xiii. Suggestions and Inventions Committee, D.-2, xxiii. Timber areas, D.-2, xxi. Train services, D.-2, xxvi. Transportation, D.-2, xxvi. Ways and Works Branch, D.-2, xxxii. Workshops, D.-2, xxv. Minister's report — Government policy, D.-2, ii. Infantile paralysis epidemic : Effect on passenger traffic, D.-2, i. Mechanical office appliances, D.-2, v. Outlook for the future,. D.-2, vi. Passenger and freight business, D.-2, iii. Revenue, D.-2, i. Road transport, D.-2, ii. Rolling-stock : Additions and improvements, D.-2, iv. Suburban travel, D.-2, v. Timber areas, D.-2, v. Track improvements, D.-2, iv. Wellington Station, new, D.-2, vi. Workshop activities, D.-2, iv. Working results, last five years, D.-2, viii. Construction — Budget Statement, 8.-6, 13. Public Works Statement, D.-l, iv, v, xii, 26. Level crossings : Elimination, 8.-6, 14 ; D.-l, v, 167. Superannuation Fund : Annual report, D.-5. Transport: Co-ordination of road and rail, H.-40, 27.

RAFFLES— H.-22, 16. RANGI HUNA PERE AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.—3, 9. RANGITAIKI LAND DRAINAGE. See under LANDS. RAROTONGA FRUIT INQUIRY— H.-44, 31. RAW MATERIALS— League of Nations' report, A.-sb, 10. REFUGEESLeague of Nations' report, A.-ō, 26 ; A.-sb, 18. REGULATIONS ACT, 1936— Report on the working of, H.-24. REIHA TANGOTANGO AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. RELIGION— Western Samoa, A.-4, 18, 28. RENT RESTRICTION— Labour Department report, H.-11, 18. REPAYMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT— Report and acccounts of the Public Debt commission for the year, 8.-2. REPRESENTATION COMMISSION— Report of the North and South Islands Representative Commissions sitting as a Joint Commission, H.-45. RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND— Annual report, with statement of accounts, for the year, 8.-16. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 18. RESERVES AND OTHER LANDS DISPOSAL BILL— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3. RETURNS OR STATEMENTSRequired bv law or resolution to be laid before the House. H. 13. RITITIA IRIHEI AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.—3, 3. RIVER CONTROL. See under PUBLIC WORKS. ROADS. See under PUBLIC WORKS. ROAD SAFETY. See under TRANSPORT. ROTORUA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT— Report, H.-22, 10. ROUMANIA— Protection of minorities in, A.-sb, 24. ROYAL NAVY. See under DEFENCE. RURAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT— Annual report— Development of the system, 8.-14, 3. Historical survey, 8.-14, 1. Observation on Board's experience during administration, 8.-14, 5. Position of system at 30th .Tune, 1937, 8.-14, 7. Redemption Fund and reserves, 8.-14, 7. Volume of business transacted, 8.-14, 7. Public Trustee's report on, 8.-9, 1936, 9 ; 8.-9, 1937, 14. Securities, transfer of, 8.-13 a, 16. RURAL MORTGAGORS FINAL ADJUSTMENT ACT - Application of, bv mortgagors through Public Trust Office, 8.-9, 1936, 6. " RUTENE TUHI AND OTHERS— Reports on petitions of, 1.-3, 12. SADLER, S.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. SALARIES AND WAGES— Arrears : Collection, H.-11, 16. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 3, 16. National Broadcasting Service, F.-36.

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SALARIES AND WAGES —continued. Post and Telegraph Department— Minimum wage for male officers of adult age, F.-l, 13. Restoration, F.-l, 13. Public Service, H.-14, 3. Teacher?, E.-l, 24. SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT— H.-31, 15, 21. SALES-TAX. See under TAXATION. SAMOA. See WESTERN SAMOA. SAUNDERS, E., AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. SAYERS, L.— Report on petition of, 1,— 12, 2. SCAFFOLDING AND EXCAVATION ACT— H.-11, 17. SCENERY PRESERVATION. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. SCHRAMM, F. W., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 3. SCHULTZ, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-8, 2. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH— Department : Annual report, H.-34— Minister's statement— Cobalt treatment, H.-34, 2. Footwear-manufacturing, H.-34, 2. Industrial Developments, H.-34, 2, 3. Tobacco, H.-34, 2. Standards Institute, H.-34, 3. Woollen-manufacturing, H.-34, 2. Reports of the Research Committees of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research— Apia Observatory, H.-34, 144. Canterbury Agricultural College, H.-34, 81. Dairy Research Institute, 11.-34, 12. Dominion Laboratory, H.-34, 86. Dominion Observatory, H.-34, 135. Fruit cold storage, H.-34, 57. Fruit, H.-34, 52. Geological survey, H.-34, 92. Imperial Agricultural Research Bureau, H.-34, 80. Leather and pelts, H.-34, 50. Magnetic Observatory, H.-34, 146. Meteorological, H.-34, 131. Mineral content of pastures, H.-34, 45. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, H.-34, 80. Phormium tenax — Plants, H.-34, 18. Research Scholarships, H.-34, 80. Social Science Research Bureaux, H.-34, 40. Soil survey, 11.-34. 60. Standards Institute, 11.-34, 34. Wheat, H.-34, 41. Secretary's report — Dairy Research Institute, H.-34, 8. Dominion Laboratory, H.-34, 6. Fruit research, H.-34, 10. Geological survey, H.-34, 7. Leather and pelts research, 11.-34, 9. Meteorological Branch, H.-34, 6. Mineral content of pastures, H.-34, 10. Miscellaneous, H.-34, 11. Observatories, H.-34, 8. Phormium tenax, H.-34, 11. Plant Research Bureau, H.-34, 8. Wheat Research Institute, H.-34, 9. Laboratory investigation, mining industry, C.-2, 6. SEA FISHERIES. See under MARINE. SERVANTS' REGISTRY OFFICES ACT— H.-11, 18. SETTLEMENT OF CROWN LANDS. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES— Convention of nationality, A.-5, 12.

SHANKS, A. F.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. SHAW, A.— Report on petition of, Ī.-2, 4. SHEARERS' ACCOMMODATION ACT, 1919— Report, H.-11, 17. SHEEP. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. SHIPPING. See under MARINE. SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. See under LABOUR. SILCOCK, J. W., AND OTHERS— Reports on petitions of, 1.-5, 2. SILVER-MINING. See under MINING. SIMPSON, T. F.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. SLAVERY— Advisory Committee of Experts on, A.-5, 16. SMALL-FARMS SCHEME. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL, also LANDS. SMITH, G. V., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 3. SMITH, J. F. 8., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. SMITH, P. o.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. SMYTH, W. C — Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3. SOCIAL AMENITIES— Mining townships, C.-2, 6. Public Works Department, D.-l, i. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH BUREAUX— Report on petition of, H.-34, 40. SOCIAL SERVICE POLICY— Budget Statement, 8.-6, 18. SOUTH AMERICA— Trade with, H.-44, 13. SOUTHLAND ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD— Budget Statement, 8.-6, 18. SPAIN— Civil war in, A.-sb, 1-4, 28-34. Health mission to, A.-sb, 13. SPORTS AND RECREATION— Police Department, H.-16, 10. Proposed National Council, H.-22, 2. Sporting broadcasts, F.-3, 3. STAMP AND DEATH DUTIES— Budget Statement, 8.-6, 23. STANDARDIZATION— New Zealand Standards Institute, Report of — Budget Statement, 8.-6, 13. Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 35. Marine Department, H.-15, 18. Scientific and Industrial Research Department, H.-34, 3, 34. STATE ADVANCES CORPORATION— And public debt, 8.-6, 18. Housing Branch, public securities held by, 8.-10, 23. Local loan prospectus, 8.-6, xix. Mortgage finance, 8.-6, 6. Report and accounts for the year, 8.-13 a— Accounts and auditor's report, 8.-13 a, 24, 30. Adjustment of mortgages, 8.-13 A, 16. Agencies for other Government Departments, 8.-13 a, 18 Arrears of instalments, 8.-13 a, 19. Balance-sheet, comments on, 8.-13 a, 21. Business conditions in New Zealand, 8.-13 a, 5. Change in constitution, 8.-13 a, 4.

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STATE ADVANCES CORPORATlON—continued. Report and accounts for the year—continued. Establishment of branch offices, 8.-13 a, 13. Field staff, 8.-13 a, 17. Fresh issue of stock and debentures, Series " B," 8.-13 A, 6. Housing Act, 1919, operations under — Accounts and Auditor's report, 8.-13 A, 30. Balance-sheet and revenue accounts, comments on, 8.-13 a, 29. Change in constitution, 8.-13 a, 25. Housing policy, 8.-13 a, 25. Loans to — Co-operative dairy factories, 8.-13 a, 29. Local authorities, 8.-13 a, 29. Organization, 8.-13 a, 26. Report of Director of Housing Construction, 8.-13 A, 27. Statutory returns, 8.-13 a, 30. Transfer of Housing Account, 8.-13 a, 25. Interest— Due, and received, 8.-13 a, 19. Trend in interest-rates, 8.-13 A, 6. Loans for industries, 8.-13 a, 13. Management of Corporation stock and debentures 8.-13 A, 9. Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act, 1936, 8.-13 A, 16. New business, 8.-13 a, 9. Organization and staff, 8.-13 a, 22. Reserve Fund investments, 8.-13 a, 13. Revenue Accounts, comments on, 8.-13 a, 21. Reverted securities — Rural, 8.-13 a, 20. Urban properties, 8.-13 A, 20. Salvage advances, 8.—13 a, 20. Transfer of Discharged Soldiers' Settlement mortgages, 8.-13 a, 14. Transfer of Rural Intermediate Credit securities, 8.-13 a, 16. World events, 8.-13 a, 5. STATE ADVANCES OFFICE— Public securities held by, 8.-10, 17. STATE COAL-MINES. See under MINING INDUSTRY. STATE FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE— Accident Insurance Branch — Annual report, H.-6a. Public securities held by, 8.-10, 4. Annual report, H.-6. Public securities held by, 8.-10, 5. STATE FOREST SERVICE. See under FORESTRY. STEWART ISLAND CANNERIES, LTD.— H.-44A, 65. STORES— Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 15. Railways Department, D.-2, xxiv. STORES CONTROL BOARD— Annual report, H.-4. Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 21. SURVEYS (see also LANDS AND SURVEY)— Fishing industry, H.-44a, 88-89. Geological, H.-34, 92. SUSTENANCE. See under LABOUR. SWAMP-DRAINAGE. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. SYRIA Future of, A.-sb, 5, 11, 16, 25. TAMATI MOEAU AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. TANGANYIKA— Frontier with Mozambique, A.-sb, 7. TAPPER, A. N — Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. TAREHURANGI TE WAARI— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6 ; 1.-3, 5.

TAUPIRI DRAINAGE AND RIVER DISTRICT AMENDMENT BILL — Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 3. TAXATION — Customs duties, statement of, collected during year compared with previous year, 8.-6, v. Income — Exemption of employment tax for, H.-Ila, 2. Revision, 8.-6, 23. Land, 8.-6, 23. Motor-vehicles, H.-40, 33. Petrol, H.-40, 31. Sales, 8.-6, 23. Stamp and death duties, 8.-6, v, 23. Unemployment— Due by persons leaving New Zealand and executors or administrators of a deceased taxpayer, H.-11a, 3. Recovery, H.-11a, 3. Unpaid tax to be first charge on estate, H.-IIA, 3. Western Samoa, A.-4, 10, 12. TAYLOR, E. S.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 4. TAYLOR, W. D., AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 4. TEACHERS. See under EDUCATION. TE HIKONGA ANARU AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. TE KATA TIMAHINA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. TE KATA TAMIHANA AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. TE KOETI, DAN— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. TE KUPE WHAREKURA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 12. TELEGRAPHS. See POST AND TELEGRAPHS. TELEVISION— Inventions relating to, H.-10, 2. TE RAUNA HAPE AND OTHERS— Reports on petitions of, 1.-3, 3, 4. TERRITORIAL FORCES. See under DEFENCE. TERRORISM— International repression of, A.-5, 11 ; A.-sb, 22. THAMES VALLEY DRAINAGE EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 3. TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD LOAN AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 3. TIMBER. See under FORESTRY. TOBACCO. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. TONGA— Press telegram service between New Zealand and, F.-l, 24. Trade with, H.-44, 15. TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK BOARD— Report, C.—lo, 4. TOTALIZATOR— Inspection, H.-22, 15. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS AND PUBLICITY— Annual report — General Manager's report — Departmental activities within the Dominion, H.-2, 6. Financial, H.-2, 7. Publicity, H.-2, 4. Staff, H.-2, 4. Tourist traffic, H.-2, 4. Travel to and within the Dominion, H.-2, 2. List of high ascents, season 1936-37— Franz Josef Glacier, H.-2, 14. Hermitage, H.-2, 15.

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TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS AND PUBLICITY —ctd. Annual report —continued. Reports (extracts) of controlling officers— Chateau Tongariro, H.-2, 13. Lake House, Waikaremoana, H.-2, 13. Little Barrier Bird Sanctuary, H.-2, 14. London representative, H.-2, 10. Milford Track and hostel, H.-2, 13. Morere Hot Springs, H.-2, 13. Rotorua, H.-2, 11, 12. Te Aroha, H.-2, 10. Trade and Tourist Commissioner in— Australia, 11. '2. 9. Canada and United States, H.-2, 8, 9. Europe, H.-2, 9. Waitomo Caves and Caves Hostel, H.-2, 12. Resorts : Construction, D.-l, xxxiv. TOWN-PLANNING— H.-22, 6. TRADE (see also INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE)— Arrangement between New Zealand and the Netherlands : Exchange of notes, A.-8. Cook Islands, A.-3, 1, 2, 23-28. Empire trade and allied questions, general review of the progress of, A.-7, 12. External, 8.-16, 5. Fishing industry, H.-44A, 3, 5, 41-47, 48-63, 65-68. Imports and exports of the Dominion in each financial year ended 31st March from 1931 to 1937 : Statement showing values, 8.-6, xvii. Niue Island, A.-6, 1-3. Raw materials : League of Nations' report, A.-sb, 10. Timber, C.-3, 14. Trade Commissioners — Australia, H.-2, 9. Canada and United States of America, H.-2, 8, 9. Europe, H.-2, 9. Western Samoa, A.-4, 12-13, 29-31. TRADE-MARKS. See PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADEMARKS. TRADE-UNIONS. See FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND TRADEUNIONS, also LABOUR. TRAILL, F. H. W., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. TRAMWAYS— Construction, &c., D.-l, 69. TRANSPORT— Communications and transit: League of Nations' report, A.-5, 14. Department— Annual reportAppendix — Statistical tables — Analyses of data relating to fatal motor accidents in the Dominion, H.-40, 40. Annual yield from taxation of motor-vehicles, H.-40, 33. Applications for goods-service licenses for the year, H.-40, 38. Applications for passenger-service licenses, H.-40, 34. Assets and liabilities of licensed passenger-services, H.-40, 37. Average operating - expenses and revenue of licensed passenger-services, H.-40, 36. Distribution of the petrol-tax to the boroughs, H.-40, 31. Goods-service licenses classified according to number of vehicle authorities, H.-40, 34. Lengths of the various classes of roads, streets, and bridges in the Dominion, H.-40, 32. Lengths of the various types of bridges in the Dominion, H.-40, 32. Motor-vehicle registrations by Highway Districts, H.-40, 30. Motor-vehicles licenses, H.-40, 30, 31. Traffic and financial statistics of licensed passenger-services, H.-40, 35. Traffic revenue, expenditure, and capital statistics of licensed goods-services, H.-40, 39. Changes in transport law and regulations, H.-40, 28. Commercial air-transport, H.-40, 27. Heavy Motor-vehicle Regulations, 1932, H.-40, 15. Limitation of loads on roads, H.-40, 16. Speeds of heavy motor-vehicles, H.-40, 15.

TRANSPORT —continued. Department—Continued. Annual report —continued. Introductory, H.-40, 3. Motor-spirits Taxation Act, 1927, H.-40, 10. Distribution of petrol-tax, H.-40, 11. Petrol-tax yield, H.-40, 10. Refunds of petrol-tax, H.-40, 11. Motor-vehicles Act, 1924, H.-40, 5. Motor-vehicle registration-plates, H.-40, 9. Motor-vehicles actually on the road, H.-40, 9. Motor-vehicles licensed, H.-40, 8. Petrol-consumption by motor-vehicles and otherwise, H.-40, 10. Registration of motor-vehicles, by country of manufacture, H.-40, 6. Registration of motor-vehicles, by types of vehicles, H.-40, 5. Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, H.-40, 17. Motor-vehicles Insurance (Third-party Risks) Act, 1928, H.-40, 4. " Hit and run " drivers, H.-40, 4. Review of premium rates, &c., H.-40, 4. Statistics re premiums and claims, H.-40, 4. Overseas transport legislation, H.-40, 29. Road finance— Annual charges per mile on roads, streets, &c., H.-40, 15. Dominion's road bill, 1929-34, H.-40, 12. Motor-taxation, H.-40, 15. Sources of money expended on road bill, H.-40, 14. Road safety— New Zealand Road Safety Council, H.-40, 20. Preventive measures, H.-40, 21. Road accidents, H. 40, 18. Reports of sub-committees of the Road Safety Council as adopted by the Council— Accident statistics, H.-40, 54. Adult education and propaganda, H.-40, 41. Child education and propaganda, H.-40, 45. Lighting of highways, H.-40, 49. Road conditions, H.-40, 51. Traffic laws, H.-40, 53. Vehicle and highway lighting, H.-40, 46. Special mileage-taxation, H.-40, 12. Traffic census, H.-40, 17. Transport Licensing Act, 1931, H.-40, 24. Appeals, H.-40, 27. Goods-services, H. 40, 26. Passenger-services, H.-40, 25. Co-operation with Public Works Department, D.-l, 174. Fishing Industry, H.-44a, 4, 41-43, 61-71. Motor-vehicles — Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 17. Registration of Motor-vehicles and associated work, F.-l, 22. New Zealand Road Safety Council, D.-l, 170. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Police Department, H.-16, 9. Road Railway services, D.-2, ii, xix. " Safety-first " instruction in schools, E.-2, 6. Tourist industry, H.-2, 3. TrafficCensus, D.-l, 170. Control, D.-l, 173. TREASURY— Public securities held by, 8.-10, 6. TREATY OF MUTUAL GUARANTEE — Between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Italy, re Belgium, A.-sb, 22. TREWBY, H.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. TROTTER, N. E., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-7, 1. TUKUMARU WEBBER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 11. TUPITO MARUERA AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6c ; 1.-3, 5. TURKEY— Dispute with France concerning future of Syria and Lebanon, A.-sb, 5, 11, 16, 25. TURNBULL, W. M.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 3.

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TUTAWA PARAEROA AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6b ; 1.-3, 5. TUUTA, G., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. UNEMPLOYMENT (see also under LABOUR)— Gold-prospecting : Subsidy, C.-2, 12, 13. Maoris, G.-9. Tax : Collection, F.-l, 22. Workers — Employment, D.-l, v. Settlement, D.-l, xxxiv. UNITED KINGDOM— Dairying industry in, H.-30, 20. Trade with, H.-44, 6. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA— Trade with, H.-44, 10. VITAL STATISTICS. See under HEALTH. WAAKA TE ARAKI AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6a ; 1.-3, 11. WAITAKI ENDOWMENT— Tree-planting, C.-3, 8. WALDERS, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 5. WANGANUI HARBOUR DISTRICT AND EMPOWERING AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-16, 2. WAR— Civil, in Spain, A.-sb, 1-4, 28-34. Funds : Administration, H.-22, 15. Graves, H.-22, 15. Pensions, H.-18, 2, 5, 7. Veterans' allowances, H.-18, 3, 4, 8. WATER-SUPPLY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT— H.-11, 19. WELLINGTON CITY EMPOWERING AND AMENDMENT BILL— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3 ; 1.-16, 4. WESTPORT HARBOUR— Public securities held by, 8.-10, 23. WESTERN SAMOA— Apia Observatory, H.-34, 144. Mandated Territory: Sixteenth annual report of the Government of New Zealand on the administration of, for the year ended 31st March, 1936, A.-4— Arms and ammunition, A.-4, 17. Defence, A.-4, 17. Education, A.-4, 19-21. Forests and agriculture, A.-4, 24. Freedom of conscience, A.-4, 18, 28. General administration — Finance, A.-4, 4, 6-11. Lands and Survey, A.-4, 5. Native Affairs, A.-4, 3. Persons of part Samoan blood, A.-4, 4. Port and harbour services, A.-4, 5. Postal and radio, A.-4, 4. Public Trust Office, A.-4, 5. Staff, A.-4, 5. Visits, A.-4, 4. Health, A.-4, 22-24. International relations, A.-4, 2. Judicial organization, A.-4, 13-16.

WESTERN SAMOA —continued. Mandated territory, &c. —continued. Labour, A.-4, 18. Land tenure, A.-4, 24. Liquor and drugs, A.-4, 21. Meteorological, A.-4, 23. Mines, A.-4, 25. Police and prisons, A.-4, 17. Population, A.-4, 25. Census, A.-4, 6, 26, 27. Status, A.-4, 2. Public Works, A.-4, 25. Social conditions of the Natives, A.-4, 17. Taxation, A.-4, 10, 12. Territory, status, A.—4, 2. Trade, A.-4, 4, 12-13, 29-31. Trade with, H.-44, 14. WEST TAUPO TIMBER LANDS— Report, C.-3, 7. WHANGAREI AIRPORT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 2 ; 1-16, 2. WHEAT. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. WHEELER, H C.— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3, 4. WIDOWS' PENSIONS. See under PENSIONS. WILKIN, A. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. WILLS. See under PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. WILSON, J. J.— Report on petition of, 1.-12, 2. WIREMU UTATANGATA TAIPUA AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. WOMEN AND CHILDREN— Children and young persons in danger of neglect and delinquency, A.-sb, 21. Nationality of married women, A.-7, 17. Traffic in (and suppression of obscene publications), A.-5, 20 ; A.-sb, 21. Unemployed, H.-11a, 14. WOOL. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. WOOLPACKS— H.-44, 31. WORKERS— Accommodation, Public Works, D.-l, ii. Training of — Domestic, E.-2, 12. Public works, D.-l, ii. WORKERS' COMPENSATION— Claim for, by Public Trustee, of persons died or disabled, 8.-9, 1936, 5. Labour Department report, H.—ll, 16. Public Trustee's report on, 8.-9, 1937, 7. WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION— Report, E.-7, 9, 15. YOUNG FARMERS' CLUBS— Activities, H.-29, 27. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION— Agreement with Public Works Department, D.-l, ii. ZELTWEG-WOLFSBERG AND UNTERDRAUBURG WEOLLAN RAILWAY COMPANY, VIENNA— ! Petition to League of Nations, A.-sb, 9, 24.

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