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1904. NEW ZEALAND.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE (REPORT OF) ON PAPER B.-15b (ASSETS REALISATION BOARD: CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO DEBENTURES FOR £1,800,000); TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF EVIDENCE. (Mr. McNAB, Chairman.)

Report brought up on the 2nd November, 190%., and ordered to be printed.

ORDERSTOFJREFERENCE. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Thursday the 30th Day of June, 1904. Ordered, " That Standing Order No. 218 be suspended, and that a Committee, consisting of twelve members, b e appointed to examine into and report upon such questions relating to the Public Accounts as they ma}' think desirable, or that maybe referred to them by the House or the Government, and also into all matters relating to the finances of the colony which the Government may refer to them ; five to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. J. Allen, Mr. Colvin, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Flatman, Mr. W. Fraser, Mr. Graham, Mr. T. Mackenzie, Mr. McNab, Sir W. R. Russell, Mr. Wood, Hon. Sir J. G. Ward, and the mover." —(Right Hon. R. J. Seddon.)

Thursday the 4th Day of. August, 1904. Ordered, " That Paper No. 122 (Debentures for £1,800,000 issued by the Assets Realisation Board, Correspondence relative to the countersignature of) be referred to the Public Accounts Committee."—(Right Hon. R. J. Seddon.)

REPORT.

I am directed to report that, in the opinion of the Committee, the object the Controller and AuditorGeneral had in view has been attained by the attention of Parliament having been called to what had occurred, and the Committee has no further recommendation to make. 2nd November, 1904. Bobekt McNab, Chairman.