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PLAYS AND SKETCHES— Broadcasting, F.-3, 3. POLITICAL DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1936-F.-l, 14. POST AHD TELEGRAPH— Department— Annual ,-^port — Bicycler, F.-l, p. Building-, a"" 1 Umd, F.-l, 4, lft. Cables : Empire Cable Committee, F.-l, 4, 13. Cables, New Zealand submarine — Cook Strait cables, F.-l, 26. Foveaux Strait cables, F.-l, 26. Commercial branch, F.-l, 4, 15. Dead-letter office, F.-l, 21. Employment work, F.-l, 22. Examinations, F.-l, 15. Finance — Cable, radio-telegraph, and radio-telephone business transacted during the year as compared with previous year, F.-l, 39. Money-orders issued and money-orders payable in New Zealand since the year 1863, F.-l, 33. Paid telegrams and toll calls (including cable and radio messages and overseas toll calls) during the years ended 31st March, 1936 and 1937, F.—l, 38. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 12 — For the years 1881-82, 1891-92, 1901-2, 1911-12, 1921-22, and following years, F.-l, 33. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 21, 35, 36. School savings-branch, F.-l, 22. Inspections, F.-l, 21. Letters and letter - cards, post - cards, book - packets, —newspapers and parcels, posted and delivered in the postal-districts of New Zealand during the year : Estimated number, F.-l, 37. Literature for the blind : Free transmission by post of talking-book records, F.-l, 18. Mail services— Air, F.-l, 6. 19. Inland, F.-l, 18. Ocean, F.-l, 6, 18. Mechanical office-appliances, F.-l, 17. Money-orders, F.—l, 21. Motor-vehicles : Departmental, F.-l, 17. Motor-vehicles and associated work : Registration, F.-l, 22. Parcel-post- rates : Reduction, F.-l, 18. Parcels exchanged with other countries during the years 1935 and 1936 : Number and weight, F.-l, 34. Postage-stamps, F.-l, 6, 20. Postal-notes, F.-l, 21. Postal business, F.-l, 5. Postal-orders, British, F.-l, 21. Postal packets, missing, F.-l, 21. Post Office investment certificates, F.-l, 22. Post Office premises, &c. : Burglary, F.-l, 21. Radio-broadcasting— Aeradio services, F.-l, 10. Broadcasting reception : Interference, F.-l, 32. Broadcasting service, F.-l, 11, 32. Frequency measuring equipment, F.-l, 27. Overseas radio-telephone service, E.-l, 10, 23, 27. Press telegram service between Tonga and New Zealand, F.-l, 24. Private broadcasting stations, F.-l, 32. Private experimental stations, F.-l, 32. Public radio-stations in Pacific Islands, F.-l, 24. Radio-dealers' licenses, F.-l, 32. Radio-stations in Northern Cook group : Installation, F.-l, 27. Radio-telegrams, F.-l, 24. Radio-telegraph and telephone services, F.-l, 26. Receiving-station licenses, F.-l, 32. Ship-to-shore and other private radio-telephone services, F.-l, 27. Rates and charges : Booklet, F.-l, 18. Staff, F.-l, 4, 12— Appeal Board, F.-l, 14. Engineeering officers : Visit to Australia, F.-l, 4. Personal, F.-l, 13. Permanent : Health, F.-l, 13. Persons employed in the Department, F.-l, 13. Political Disabilities Removal Act, 1936, F.-l, 14. Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936, F.-l, 14. Post and Telegraph Officers Sick Benefit Fund, F.-l, 4. 14. Promotion Board, F.—l, 14. Protective clothing to members of line construction and maintenance staff, F.-l. 17. Salaries — Forty-hour week, F.-l, 13. Increase, F.-l, 13.

NATIVE AFFAlßS—continued. Department: Annual Report, G.-9—continued. Native Land Courts, G.-9, 4— Alienations of land, G.-9, 6, 13. Business and fees, G.-9, 12. Native-land development and assistance to Maori farmers, G.-9, 2. Native-land laws, G.-9, 4. Native-land purchase— Blocks acquired but not proclaimed Crown lands, G.-9, 13. Blocks fully acquired and proclaimed Crown lands, G.-9, 13. Blocks fully acquired and under negotiation, G.-9, 14. Native Trustee, G.-9, 3. Promotion of employment amongst Maoris, G.-9, 2. Education — Native children : Annual report, E.-3. Schools : Minister's report, E.-l, 33. Lands — Development: Report of Board of Native Affairs, G.-10— Area and population under schemes, stations, and farms, G.-10, 92. East Coast Native Trust lands, G.-10, 89-90. Finance — Cash receipts for the year, G. 10, 94. Receipts and payments accounts for the year, G.-10, 91. State schemes : Total receipts from districts, G.-10, 94. General report. (J.-10, 3. Live-stock returns far G.-10. 93. Maori Land Board activitiesTGfr-10, 79-82. Native Trust stations, G.-10, 83-88. Principal development and farming activities undertaken during the year, G.-10, 92. State development schemes — Aotea Maori Land District, G.-10, 70-74. Ikaroa and South Island Maori Land District, G.-10, 74-78. Tairawhiti Maori Land District, G.-10, 62-69. Tokarau Maori Land District, G.-10, 6-14. Waiariki Maori Land District, G.—lo, 27—61. Waikato-Maniapoto Land District, G.-10, 15-26. East Coast Native Trust lands — Balance-sheet and statement of accounts for the year, G.-3. Mangatu Nos. 1, 3, and 4 Blocks : Balance-sheets and statements of accounts for the year, G.-4. Report of the Board of Native Affairs on, G.-10, 89. Surveys, C.-la, 2. Native Purposes Act, 1935 : Report and recommendation on petition of — Potikai leni Tapihana, G.~6a. Tarehurangi Te Waari, G.-6. Native Purposes Act, 1936 : Report and recommendation on petition of— Tupito Maruera and others, G.-60. Tutawa Paraeroa and others, G.—6b. Waaka Te Arakai and others, G.-6a. NEW ZEALAND BROADCASTING BOARD. See under BROADCASTING. NEW ZEALAND ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL— Report, D.-l, 170. NEW ZEALAND WORKERS' UNION — Agreement with Public Works Department, D.-l, 1. NORTHERN COOK ISLANDS GROUP — Installation of radio-stations, E.-l, 27. OIL. See PETROL. OPPOSSUMS — Trapping, C.-3, 2. PARLIAMENT— Broadcast of proceedings, F.-3, 3. PACIFIC COUNTRIES— Education — Conference on Native education, Honolulu, E.-d, 3. Schools : Inspection, E.-3, 7. Radio-stations, public, opening of, F.-l, 24. PENSIONS— Miners, C.-2, 11. PETROL— Petroleum oil: Mines statement report, C.-2, 3, 4. PHOTOPRINTING. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. PLANT AND MACHINERY. See under PUBLIC WORKS.