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Total area proclaimed under Discharged. Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, to 31st March, 1921, 1,321,091 acres. Total area of State forests, 5,134,651 acres. Total value of exports, £48,219,672. Increase of approximately 71,900 acres sown in wheat. Coal reserves established for naval use. Naval Board constituted. Reorganization of New Zealand Military Forces. Repatriation expenditure to 31st March, 1921, £1,859,310. Coal-production during the year decreased by 4,143 tons. Coal-production in 1920 compared with 1914 decreased by 560,000 tons. Coal imported, during 1920, 647,077 tons. War pensions paid during 1920-21, £1,886,952. Pension Medical Appeal Board established. Total contributors to National Provident Fund at 31st December, 1920, 19,724. £31,972 expended for maternity allowances. Expenditure by Education Department approximately £3,300,000, including Consolidated Fund, appropriations, £2,460,116 ; Education Acts, £102,972; education reserves and national-endowment revenue, £171,071; and Education Purposes Loan, £214,571. £500,000 expended on school buildings. Total payments made for supplies purchased on behalf of Imperial Government, £158,576,644. Wool profits distributed, £1,619,069. War loans raised to 31st March, 1921, £81,538,570. Gross public debt at 31st March, 1921, £206,324,319. Sinking funds at 31st March, 1921, £8,763,072. Net indebtedness per head, £162 3s. Net annual interest and sinking-fund charges, £10,108,414. Increased revenue from distribution of Bank of New Zealand profits, £18,750. PROPOSALS. Estimated. Customs revenue, £4,900,000. Estimated land and income tax receipts, £7,700,000. Tariff revision. Co-ordination of Public Health Department and local authorities in sanitary inspection and the prevention of infectious diseases. Improvement of nursing services. Transfer of military consumptive sanatoria to Public Health Department. Legislation in connection with hospital subsidies. Automatic printing telegraphs to be installed. Telephone and telegraph methods to be improved. Expedition of operations of swamp-land, drainage. Extension of farm schools for teachers and farmers. Nauru and Ocean Island phosphate business to be developed. Formation of New Zealand Royal Naval Reserve. £335,782 to be provided for naval defence. Re-arming and re-equipment of Territorial Force. Consolidation of and amendments to the Shops and Offices Acts. Consolidation of and amendment of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Consolidation of and amendment of Factories Act and the Workers' Compensation Act. Assistance to fishing industry. Concentration for more economic and rapid completion of railways. Legislation in regard to main roads. Assistance in roadmaking in partially developed regions. Further development of hydro-electric works. Financial proposal in connection with productive public works to be submitted. Construction of waterworks to supply arid lands. Exchange of teachers with other countries.