INDEX.

MANDATES— League of Nations' report, A.-5, 31 ; A.-58, 8, 24. MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATIONS— Report, H.-44, 21. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES— Statistics relating to, H.-44, 22, 36-40. MAORI AFFAIRS. See NATIVE AFFAIRS. MAORIS ANTIQUES ACT, 1908— Report, H.-22, 14. MARIA RIMAHANA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. MARINE— Department— Annual report — Admiralty charts, H.-15, 11. Boilers and machinery inspection, H.-15, 14, 42. Coastal survey, H.-15, 2. Examinations, H.-15, 6, 12, 31, 40. Finance, H.-15, 2. Fisheries, H.-15, 12, 20-33, 44-49. Marine Fish Hatchery and Biological Station, Portobello, H.-15, 26. Foreshores and wharves : Control, H.-15, 8. Form and colour vision, H.-15, 11. Government shipping offices, H.-15, 12. Harbour Board legislation, H.-15, 7. Harbours, H.-15, 3, 14. International Marine Conventions, H.-15, 7. Land engineers, engine-drivers, and electric-tram drivers, H.-15, 18, 43. Legislation, H.-15, 50. Lifeboatmen, H.-15, 11. Lighthouses, H.-15, 6, 35. Marine engineers, H.-15, 18, 36. Masters and mates, H.-15, 11, 36. New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, H.-15, 7. New Zealand's standards, H.-15, 18. Notices to mariners, H.-15, 11. Orders in Council under Parts I and 11, Fisheries Act, 1908, H.-15, 46. Prosecutions, H.-15, 19. Radio beacons, H.-15, 7. Safe working loads, H.-15, 14. Seamen, H.-15, 12, 34, 35. Sea water : Average temperature, H.-15, 46. Shipping— Casualties, H.-15, 11, 37-41, 42. Laws, H.-15, 7. Registration, H.-15, 12. Wireless, H.-15, 2. Ships— Compasses, H.-15, 11. Staff, H.-15, 18. Survey, H.-15, 12. Westport Harbour, H.-15, 3, 4. Whaling, H.-15, 13, 19, 48. Fishing industry— Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 26, 31. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report, H.-44A— Act, Fisheries : Amendments required, H.-44a, 96. Administration, H.-44A, 94-96. Appointment of Committee, H.-44a, 2. Aquaria, public, H.-44a, 93-94. Assistance to industry, H.-44a, 92. Auction system, H.-44a, 48-52, 62-63, 67-68. Australian trawlers, H.-44a, 92. Biological stations, H.-44a, 93-94. Blue cod— Chatham Islands, H.-44a, 31. Cost of handling, H.-44a, 47. Export, H.-44A, 47. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 32-33. French Pass, il. 11a. 30. Size-limits for, H.-44a, 32. Recommendations, H.-44a, 31, 34. Bruised fish, H.-44a, 33. Canning, H.-44a, 65, 94. Chatham Islands, H.-44a, 31,%6. Company-promotion, H.-44a, 91. Conservational measures, effect of, H.-44a, 13. Consumption of fish, H.-44a, 4.

MARINE —continued. Fishing industry—continued. Sea-fisheries Investigation Committee report —continued. Crayfish, H.-44A, 34-36, 47. Danish-seining, H.-44a, 12-23. Danish-seining versus trawling, H.-44a, 21. Danish-seine vessels : Excessive number at Auckland, H.-44A, 20. Distribution of fish, H.-44A, 4. Drag netting (hand seines), H.-44a, 25-26. Earnings of fishermen,. H.-44A, 84-85. Eels, export of , H.-44a, 41. Evidence : Amount of and method of taking, H.-44 A, 2. Export, internal marketing and co-ordination, H.~44a, 65-68. Export trade, H.-44a, 3, 5, 41-47. Explosives, destruction of fish by, H.-44a, 90-91. Fisheries Act : Amendments required, H.-44A, 96. Fishermen, number of, H.-44a, 3. Fishermen's reserves, H.-44a, 89-90. Fish-traps (Tiraus), H.-44A, 27. Flat fish— Landings at Napier, 1931-37, H.-44a, 10. Legal size of, H.-44a, 87. Fleet, value of the fishing, H.-44A, 3. Flounder-production at Thames, H.-44A, 16-17. Food-value of fish, H.-44a, 3. Hapuka (groper)— Cook Strait area, H.-44a, 27-28. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 33. Otago, H.-44a, 27. Harbour facilities, H.-44a, 72-78. Insurance of fishing-vessels, H.-44A, 88. Investments in the industry, H.-44a, 2. Lake Ellesmere outlet, H.-44A, 91. Legal size of fish, H.-44a, 87. Licensing— Export, H.-44A, 83. Fishermen, H.-44A, 84. Fishing, H.-44a, 84. Recommendations, H.-44A, 84. Line fishing— Dan lines and " windy " buoys, H.-44a, 27. 28. Hand lines, H.-44a, 30-31. Long lines, H.-44a, 29-30. Marine Products, Ltd., H.-44a , 47. Masters of fishing-vessels, H.-44 Jl, 87. Mollymawks, H.-44a, 30, 32. Offal, H.-44A, 85-86. Order of reference, H.-44A, 2. Oysters, dredge— Canning, H.-44a, 65. Marketing, H.-44a, 63-65, 68. Medicinal preparations, H.-44a, 65. Production— Akaroa, H.-44A, 38. Costs, H.-44a, 63. Dunedin, H.-44a, 37-38. Foveaux Strait, H.-44a, 36-38. Oystermen : Rates of pay, H.~44a, 63. Oysters, rook, H.-44a, 38-40. Pilchards, H.-44a, 26. Power-drawn net-fishing vessels— Gisborne, 1926-37, H.-44a, 10. Nelson, 1926-37, H.-44a, 13. Napier, 1926-37, H.-44A, 9. Timaru, 1926-37, H.-44a, 7. Price— Of fish, H.-44A, 4. Range of wholesale at Christchurch, H.-44a, 51. Spread, H.-44a, 5, 60. Rough fish at Auckland, H.-44A, 58. Tauranga, H.-44a, 56. Production : Progressive drop at Tauranga, H.-44a, 15. Quinnat salmon, H.-44a, 94. Refrigeration, H.-44a, 78-83. Research work : Surveys, &c., H.-44a, 88-89. Retail trade, H.-44a, 48-63. Salmon, quinnat, H.-44A, 94. Sardines, H.-44a, 26. Seals, H.-44a, 91-92. Set nets, H.-44A, 20-25. Snapper versus tarakihi, H.-44a, 58. Special nets, H.-44a, 26. Statistics, H.-44a, 95. Stewart Island Canneries, Ltd, H.-44a, 65. Sunday sale of fish, H.-44a, 90.

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