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PACIFIC ISLANDS— Trade with, H.-44, 13. PARLIAMENT— Broadcast of proceedings, F.-3, 3. PASSPORTS— H.-22, 14. PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS— Annual report, with statement of accounts, H.-10. PAYNE, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. PENAL QUESTIONS. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS. PENSIONS— Department— Annual report — Administration : Cost, H.-18, 4. Family allowances, H.-18, 4, 5. Legislation, H.-18, 4. Blind, H.-18, 5. Invalidity, H.-18, 5. Miners, H.-18, 5. Old-age, H.-18, 4. Statistics, H.-18, 6. Organization, H.-18. 6. Payments on behalf of other Governments, H.-18, 2. Pensions — Civil, H.-18, 4. Granted, deaths, and cancellations in each year with number in force, H.-18, 7. In force : Annual value and total payments, H.-18, 1. Military (Maori War), H.-18, 5. War, H.-18, 5. Appeals, H.-18, 3. Economic, H.-18, 3. Payable outside New Zealand, H.-18, 3. Pensioners — Deaths amongst, H.-18, 3. Loading paid on life-insurance policies, H.-18, 3. Medical treatment : Costs, H.-18, 3. Railway concessions, H.-18, 3. Summary of annual liability, H.-18, 2. Summary of payments, H.-18, 2. Temporary : Increase, H.-18, 3. War veterans' allowances, H.-18, 3. Appeals, H.-18, 4. Increase : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 4. Miners, C.-2, 11. Statement of amounts paid on account of, for the financial years ended 31st March, from 1933 to 1937, 8.-6, xiii. PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE— League of Nation's report, A.-5, 9. PERRELLE DE LA, L. G., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-10, 1. PETROL (see also under TRANSPORT)— Mines Statement report, C.-2, 3, 4. Prices, &c., H.-44, 32. PETROLEUM BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 6 ; 1.-4, 2. PHYSICAL EDUCATION— Expenditure, 8.-6, 21. PICOT BROS.— Acquisition by Government, 8.-6, 11. • PILLING, M.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. PIRIHIRA KARENA AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 11. PLANT AND MACHINERY. See under PUBLIC WORKS— PLATT, A.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. PLAYS AND SKETCHES— Broadcasting, F.-3, 3.

POLAR QUESTIONS — Imperial Conference, 1937, report, A.-7, 21. POLICE — Cook and other Islands, A.-3, 13. Department: Annual report — Arms Bureau, H.-16, 6. Casualties, H.-16, 1. Criminal Registration Branch, H.-16, 5. Criminal statistics, H.-16, 1. Drunkenness, H.-16, 3. Efficiency, 11. Hi, 9. Gaming offences, H.-16, 3. General conduct of members of Force, H.-16, 10. Growth of Department, H.-.16, 4, 8. Number of offences reported, the number of offences for which persons were apprehended or summoned, and comparison of crime during the year with previous year : Return, H. -I 6, 17. Police Association : Formation, H.-16, 10. Police buildings, &c., H.-16, 7. Police Regulations, H.-16, 9. Proportion of Police Force to population and cost per inhabitant in various countries, II ,- 16, 23. Prosecutions, H.-16, 3, 5. Recreation, H.-16, 10. Reports (extracts) of officers in charge of districts, 11. Hi, 10. Serious crimes, H.-16, 2. Stations, H.—l6, 1. Strength of Force, H.-16, 21. Sly-grog selling, H.-16, 3. Training Depot, H.-16, 9. Transport, H.-16. 9. Expenditure, 8.-6, 22. Western Samoa, A.-4, 17. POLITICAL DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1936 - F.-l, 14. POOR KNIGHTS ISLANDS — Wild pigs : Destruction, H.-22, 13. POPULATION— Western Samoa, A.-4, 2, 6, 25, 26, 27. POST AND TELEGRAPH— Broadcasting : Wireless— Cook Islands, A.-3, 12. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. Cook Islands, A.-3, 12. Department— Annual report — Bicycles, F.-l, 17. Buildings and land, F.-l, 4, 16. 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, 1911-1 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.

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