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POLICE— Cook and other Islands, A.-3, 8. 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, H.-16, 7. Gaming offences, H.-16, 3. General conduct of members of Force, H.-16, 8. Growth of Department, H.-16, 4. 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.-16, 16. Police Association, H.-16, 8. Police buildings, &c., H.-16, 6, 8. Police Regulations, H.-16, 8. Proportion of Police Force to population and cost per inhabitant in various countries, H.-16, 22. Prosecutions, H.-16, 3, 5. Against hotelkeepers, H.-16, 3. Recreation, H.-16, 8. Reports (extracts) of officers in charge of districts, H.-16, 9. Serious crimes, H.-16, 2. Staff : Additions, H.-16, 7. Stations, H.-16, 1. Strength of Force, H. 16, 1, 20. Sly-grog selling, H.-16, 3. Training Depot, H.-16, 8. Transport, H.-16, 7. Women police, H.-16, 8. Western Samoa, A.-4, 18. POPULATION— Western Samoa, A.-4, 2, 28. POST AND TELEGRAPH— Broadcasting— Cook Islands, A.-3, 11. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Radio research, H.-34, 12, 68. Western Samoa, A.-4, 5. Cook Islands, A.-3, 10. Department— Annual report — Bicycles, F.-l, 16. Buildings and land, F.-l, 5, 15. Cables : Empire cable rates; F.-l, 4. Cables, New Zealand submarine — Cook Strait cables, F.-l, 25. Foveaux Strait cables, F.-l, 25. New inter-Island submarine telephone cable, F.-l, 25. Commercial branch, F.-l, 5, 14. Coronation medals, F.-l, 14. Correspondence schools : Reopening, F.-l, 4. Dead-letter office, F.-l, 19. Employment work, F.-l, 21. Kxaminations, F.-l, 13. 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, 1938 and 1937, F.-l, 38. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 10 — For the years 1881-82, 1891-92, 1901-2, 1911-12, 1921-22, and following years, F.-l, 33. Revenue and expenditure for the year: Graph, F.-l, 40. Revenue under separate headings : Graph, F.-l, 41. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 19, 35, 36, 43. Letters of Credit, F.-l, 20. School savings- branch, F.-l, 20. Thrift clubs, F.-l, 20. Fruit-inspection-fee stamps, F.-l, 18. Total turnover : Graph, F.-l, 42. Inspections, F.-l, 19. 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.

POST AND TELEGRAPH—continued. Department—continued. Annual report—continued. Mail-servicesi— Air, F.-l, 6, 17. Inland, F.-l, 16. Ocean, F.-l, 6, 16. Money-orders, F.-l, 19. Money-order-telegram service : Rarotonga and Niue, F.-l, 22. Motor-vehicles : Departmental, F.-l, 16. Motor-vehicles and associated work : Registration, F.-l, 20. Parcel-post service, direct: New Zealand and Jamaica, F.-l, 18. Parcels exchanged with other countries during the years 1936 and 1937 : Number and weight, F.-l, 34. Postage-stamps, F.-l, 18. Postal business, F.-l, 6, 45. Postal-notes, F.-l, 19. Postal-orders, British, F.-l, 19. Postal packets, missing, F.-l, 19. Post Office investment certificates, F.-l, 20. Post Office premises, &c. : Burglary, F.-l, 19. Radio-broadcasting— Advisory services for other Departments, F.-l, 27. Aeradio services, F.-l, 8, 26. Awarua Radio, F.-l, 26. Broadcasting reception : Interference, F.-l, 32. Broadcasting service, F.-l, 9, 31. Emergency radio stations, F.-l, 26. Kawau Island : Closing of radio station, F.-l, 26. Marchese Marconi, death of : Observance of two minutes' silence, F.-l, 26. Overseas radio-telephone service, F.-l, 10, 27. Private broadcasting stations, F.-l, 32. Private experimental stations, F.-l, 32. Private radio-communication services, F.-l, 26. Radio-dealers' licenses, F.-l, 32. Radio stations— Northern Cook Islands group, F.-l, 27. Proposed, at Nukunono, Union Islands, F.-l, 27. Radio-telegram charges from British ships to New Zealand, F.-l, 21. Radio-telegraph and telephone services, F.-l, 26. Receiving-station licenses, F.-l, 31. Wellington Radio, F.-l, 21. Staff, F.-l, 3— Appeal Board, F.-l, 12. Appeal fee : Abolition, F.-l, 12. Classification list, F.-l, 12. Permanent— Health, F.-l, 11. Number : Graph, F.-l, 44. Personal, F.-l, 11. Persons employed in the Department, F.-l, 11. Post and Telegraph Officers' Sick Benefit Fund, F.-l, 13. Regrading, F.-l, 12. Regulations : Amendment, F.-l, 12. Salaries, &c., F.-l, 10— Fortnightly pay, F.-l, 13. Minimum wage for male officers of adult age, F.-l, 12. Stores Branch, F.-l, 14. Suggestion Board, F.-l, 13. Telegraph and telephones— Carrier-current telephone systems, F.-l, 23. Coronation letter-telegram service, New Zealand and United Kingdom, F.-l, 22. Distribution of football news, South African Rugby team tour, F.-l, 22. Inland Christmas ans New Year greetings telegram service, F.-l, 22. Inter-Island telegraph and telephone communication channels, F.-l, 7. International Telecommunications Conference, Cairo, 1938, F.-l, 5. Interphone equipment: Reduction in charge, F.-l, 29. Money-order-telegram service, Rarotonga and Niue Island, F.-l, 22. Overseas Christmas and New Year greetings telegrams, F.-l, 22. Poles and wires, F.-l, 25. Printing telegraphs, F.-l, 21. Public call offices, F.-l, 29.