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reports on expenditure, loans, applications for advances, postponements, &c, and the disposal of securities. Although less money is now being advanced to soldiers than formerly, the work of administering the finances as established is more difficult to handle, more especially since the drop in the prices of farm products. Departmental balance-sheets are now required for all phases of the Department's activities, embracing the Swamp Drainage, Hauraki Plains, Rangitaiki Land Drainage, Scenery Preservation, Land for Settlements, Native. Land Settlement, Kauri-gum Industry, and the general Crown Lands Account. Reports on Cognate Subjects. As in former years, separate, reports are required to be laid before Parliament in connection with many of the operations carried out by the Department. They comprise— Surveys. —The report by the Surveyor-General on the work of the survey (or technical) branch of the. Department is submitted in parliamentary paper C.-lA. Swamp-drainage. —The report required by the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, is contained in parliamentary paper C.-4. Discharged Soldiers Settlement.— -The annual report under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, is furnished by the Department in parliamentary paper C.-9. Scenery-preservation. —The statutory report containing details of reservations and statement of accounts appears in parliamentary paper C.-6. Advances for Roading of Crown Lands. —The necessary report submitted in accordance with section 63 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, appears in parliamentary paper C.-7. Draining Operations in Hauraki Plains. —A report by the Acting Chief Drainage Engineer on this subject appears in parliamentary paper C.-8. Public Domains.—A brief summary of the year's operations is given in parliamentary paper C.-10. Rangitaiki Land Drainage. —The annual report on the operations in the Rangitaiki Plains is given in parliamentary paper C.-11. Kauri-gum Industry. —The annual report of the. Kauri-gum Superintendent on the year's operations is given in parliamentary paper C.-1.2. National Endowments. —The annual report required by section 11 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, appears in parliamentary paper C.-14.

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