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RAILWAYS— Budget Statement, 8.-6, 12, 24. REFUGEES— Relief, A.-5, 27 ; A.-sd, 20. RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND— Annual report, with statement of accounts, 8.-l 6. ROYALTIES— Payable to the Crown and unpaid as at 31st March, 1938, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xiii. RURAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT— Transfer to State Advances Corporation, 8.-9, 13 ; 8.-13 a, 9. SALES TAX. See under TAXATION. SAMOA. See WESTERN SAMOA. SECONDARY INDUSTRY. See under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. SHIPPING. See under MARINE. SINO-JAPANESE CONFLICT— Report on proceedings at the League of Nations and " Nine-power " Conference, A.-se. SPAIN— Civil war in, A.-5, 26 ; A.~sd, 5, 10. STATE ADVANCES CORPORATION— Borrowing-powers. 8.-l [Pt. ll], viii. Budget Statement, 8.-6, 22. Housing, 8.-6, 6-8. Public securities held by, 8.-10, 21. Report and accounts for the year, 8.-13 a— Accounts and auditor's report, 8.-13 a, 14. Adjustment of mortgages, 8.-13 a, 9. Balance-sheet, comments on, 8.-13 a, 12. Establishment of branch offices, 8.-13 a, 9. Field staff, 8.-13 A, 10. Housing Act, 1919, operations under— Accounts and Auditor's report, 8.-13 a, 18. Balance-sheet and revenue accounts, comments on, 8.-13 a, 16. Loans to— Co-operative dairy-factories, 8.-13 a, 16. Local authorities, 8.—13 a, 16. Report of Director of Housing Construction, 8.-13 a, 15. Statutory returns, 8.-13 A, 17. Interest— Due, and received, 8.-13 a, 11. Trend of interest-rates, 8.-13 a, 6. Legislation effecting the Corporation, 8.-13 a, 4. Mortgage repayment insurance, B. 13a, 9. Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act, 1936, 8.-13 a, 9. New business, 8.-13 a. 7. Organization and staff, 8.-13 a, 13. Principal functions, 8.-l 3a, 4. Revenue Accounts, 8.-13 a, 11. Reverted securities— Rural, 8.-13 A, 11. Urban properties, 8.-13 a, 10. Staff, 8.-13 a, 13. Stock and debentures issued, 8.-13 a, 7. Trade and industry in New Zealand, 8.-13 a, 5. Transfer of Rural Intermediate Credit securities, 8.-13 a, 9. Volume of business, 8.-13 a, 4. World events, 8.-13 a, 4. Rural Intermediate Credit Scheme transferred to, 8.-9, 13. Stock issued by, 8.-l [Pt. ll], vii. STATE FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE— Public securities held by, 8.-10, 4. SWITZERLAND— Trade agreement with, A.-l.

TAXATION— Income-tax : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 21. Sales-tax : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 20. Western Samoa, A.-4, 10, 12. TERRORISM— Repression of, A.-sd, 19. TRADE— Agreement: New Zealand and Switzerland, A.-l. Cook Islands, A.-3, 1, 2. Economic depressions: Determination of a proceedure, A.-sd, 20. Niue Island, A.-6, 1-3. Overseas : Budget Statement, 8.-6, 24. Raw materials : Study of the problem, A.-sd, 8. Trade and industry in New Zealand, 8.-13 a, 5. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4, 12, 29-31. TRANSPORT— Budget Statement, 8.-6, 23. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Road : Unification of statistics relating to, A.~sd, 5. TREASURY— Department: Public securities held by, 8.-10, 6. VITAL STATISTICS. See under HEALTH. WAR— Armaments, reduction and limitation of, A.-5,11 ; A.-sd, 5. Civil war in Spain, A.-5, 26 ; A.-sb, 5. Sino-Japanese conflict: Report on proceedings at the League of Nations and " Nine-power " Conference, A.-se. WESTERN SAMOA— Mandated Territory: Eighteenth annual report of the Government of New Zealand on the administration of, for the year ended 31st March, 1936, A.^4— Arms and ammunition, 18. Defence, A.-4, 18. Education, A.-4, 20. Forests and agriculture, A.-4, 27. Freedom of conscience, A.-4, 20. General administration — Finance, A.-4, 4, 6. Lands and Survey, A.-4, 5. Native Affairs, A.-4, 3. Persons of part Samoan blood, A.-4, 4. Port and harbour services, A.-4, 5. Postal and radio, A.-4, 5. Public Trust Office, A.-4, 5. Staff, A.-4, 5. Visits, A.-4, 4. Health, A.—4, 24. International relations, A.-4, 2. Judicial organization, A.-4, 14-17. Labour, A.-4, 19. Land tenure, A.-4, 27. Liquor and drugs, A.-4, 23. Meteorological, A.-4, 26. Mines, A.-4, 28. Police and prisons, A.-4, 18. Population, A.-4, 28. Status, A.-4, 2. Public Works, A.-4, 28. Social conditions of the Natives, A.-4, 18. Taxation, A.-4, 10, 12. Territory, status, A.—4, 2. Trade, A. 4, 4, 12, 29-31. New Zealand Reparation Estate, public securities held bv, 8.-10, 23. WESTPORT HARBOUR— Public securities held by, 8.-10, 21. WIRELESS. See BROADCASTING. WOMEN AND CHILDREN— Traffic in, A.-5, 18 ; A.-sd, 13. Women, status of, A.-5, 18 ; A.-sd, 15. ZELTWEG - WOLFSBERG AND UNTER - DRANBURCWOELLAN RAILWAY COMPANY, VIENNA— Request to League of Nations, A.-sd, 8.

By Authority: E. V. Paul, Government Printer, Wellington. —1939.

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