A.—4,

IX. PUBLIC HEALTH. 1. What steps are being taken in the Territory to provide for public health, sanitation, and to combat endemic and epidemic diseases ? 2. What provisions are made for medical assistance ? 3. What is the actual situation as regards prostitution, and what steps are being taken injthe matter ? 4. What public-health organization for the investigation, prevention, control, and treatment of diseases exists in the Territory ? 5. What endemic diseases are responsible for the greatest morbidity and mortality in the Territory ? Please supply as complete statistics as possible regarding the morbidity and mortality attributable to such diseases, where possible by months and age and sex. 6. Please indicate the birth-rate, the death-rate from all causes, and the infant-mortality rate for those portions of the Territory, if any, for which such information may be available. 7. Describe the measures in force for the collection of vital statistics in the Territory. 8. Please supply such other information of epidemiological interest concerning the Territory as may be available, with special reference to the incidence of such serious diseases as sleepingsickness, &c., where this information does not come within the scope of question 5 above. Last year's answers apply. X. LAND-TENURE. 1. What system of land-tenure and forest law exists ? How are they legally recognized ? What lands are considered as belonging to the State, and what are regarded as communally owned ? 2. What measures are being adopted for the registration of landed property ? 3. What other regulations for the alienation of land in which Natives or Native communities exercise rights by virtue of heredity or use ? 4. What other measures are being taken to protect the rights and interests of Natives and Native communities in respect to land (usury, forced sale, &c.) ? Last year's answers apply. XI. MORAL, SOCIAL, AND MATERIAL WELFARE. What are, generally speaking, the measures adopted to ensure the moral, social, and material welfare of the Natives ? (Measures to maintain the interests, rights, and customs of the Natives, their participation in Public Service, Native tribunals, &c.) Last year's answers apply, except that the numbers of half-castes and Samoans participating in the Public Service at the 31st March, 1927, were 47 and 576 respectively. XII. PUBLIC FINANCES. The general schedule of receipts from and expenditure on the Territory, Budget system, indication of the nature and assessment of taxes. Last year's answers apply.

XIII. DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS. Births, Deaths, Marriages; Immigration and Emigration. Return showing the Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Immigration and Emigration, for the Year ended 31st December, 1926.

Approximate Cost of Payer.—Preparation., not given ; printing (1,300 copies, including illustrations and maps), £160.

Authority : W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, Wellington.—l 927.

Price, 2s.]

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Births. Deaths. Marriages. Immigration. Emigration. ~T~ j Native Samoans .. . . .. 1,965 723 270 727 654 Europeans and half-castes .. .. 92 20 15 506 524 Chinese labourers .. . . . . .. 11 .. 180 112 Melanesian labourers Totals .. .. .. 2,057 754 285 1,413 j 1,290