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1917. NEW ZEALAND.

LANDS COMMITTEE (REPORTS OF THE). (Mr. E. NEWMAN, Chairman.)

Presented, to the House of Representatives, and ordered, to be printed.

ORDER OF REFERENCE. Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Friday, tiiio 20th Day o. July, 1917. Ordered, " That Standing Ordor No. 219 bo suspended, and that a Select Committee be appointed, consisting of fifteen members, to whom shall stand referred, after the first reading, all Bills affecting or in any way relating to lands of the Crown or educational or other public reserves ; the Committee to have power to make such amendments therein as they think proper, and to report generally when necessary upon tho principles and provisions of the Bill; tho Committee to have power to call for persons, papers, and. records ; three to lie a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Anderson, Mr. Anstey, the Hon. Mr. Buddo, Captain Coates, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Jennings, Mr. E. Newman, Mr. Nosworthy, the Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Mr. T. W. Rhodes, Mr. R. W. Smith, Mr. Statham, Mr. Witty, and the mover." —(Right Hon. Mr. Massey.)

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i No. Petition or BUI. Page. No. Petitioner Bill. Page. ! 257 201 394 Bell, Thomas Bendall, John Bioknell, J.jT. <i Campion, James Catterall, Oeorge, and others Chipman, C. H. Colvin, James, and others 3 5 4 .. ! Nelson Harbour Board Empowering Bill.. 4 417 Otago Expansion League 5 437 233 245 152/16 4 5 4 2 Paper 280, Otautau Timber Company .. 3 384 Quartcrman, W., and others 0 Day's Bay Sanitation and Water-supply Bill Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Bill Dunedin Chamber of Commerce Dunedin Waterworks Extension Bill .. 2 I Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Bill 450 ! Rippon, Alfrod 6 4 6 417 5 4 108 Schmidt, ,I. H., and others 235 Smith, C. Phil, and others Special Report (re Chairman) Special Report (re Clerk) 92 Spurrcll, Esther Ann 291 Stevens, Charles 4 5 6 6 3 2 Final Report Foxton Harbour Board Amendment Bill. . 6 3 8 222 441 Hawko's Bay Rivers Amendment Bill .. Henry, Matthew Holdsworth, John Hunt, W. J. 4 2 3 6 Tauranga Harbour Amendment and Foroshoro Vosting Bill 146 Thomson and Fairer 3 2 5 3 48 TJrlich, Ivan, and Others Wairoa Harbour Board Endowment Bill. . Wanganui Harbour Board Vesting Bill .. Whakatane Harbour Amendment Bill .. Whangarci I [arbour Board Vesting Bill .. 197 Whitcombe, Oeorge .. 2 288 Land Laws Amendment Bill Leyland - O'Brien Timber Company (Limited ) 3 5 5 4 2 Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Vesting Bill Napier High School Empowering Bill .. 2 3