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FORESTRY —continued. State Forest Service : Annual report—continued. Summary— Afforestation, C.-3, 2. General, C.-3, 2. Imports and exports of timber, C.-3, 2. Production of timber, C.-3, 2. Sawmills, C.-3, 2. Timber-sales, C.-3, 2. Timber trade- - Domestic markets, C.-3, 28. Exports, C.-3, 29. General, C.-3, 27. Utilization — Administration, C.-3, 19. Operating technique, C.-3, 23. Research, C.-3, 26. GOLD. See under MINING INDUSTRY. GOVERNMENT SUPERANNUATION FUNDS— Teachers, E.-l, 46 ; E.-8. Railways, I).-5. HAWKE'S BAY— Flood damage, G.-9, 2. HEALTH— Health and hospital institutions: Construction, D.-l, xxvii, xxviii. HOUSING — Surveys, C.-la, 2. HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE— Commercial afforestation companies, 0.-3, 33. Commercial Branch, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 8. Commercial Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, xxxvii. Iron and steel industry— Department: Annual report — Acknowledgments, 0.-7, 3. Brassert's report, C.-7, 4. Coal, C.-7, 5. Effect of steel-manufacture on — Employment, C.-7, 10. Sterling demand, C.-7, 10. Estimates of — Costs, 0.-7, 8. Earnings, C.-7, 9. Extension of the steel-works, C.-7, 8. Iron-ore, C.-7, 6, 7. Limestone and dolomite, C.-7, 8. Location of the steel-works, C.-7, 7. Manufacturing programme, C.-7, 5. Purposes of defence, C.-7, 11. Raw materials, C.-7, 5. Summary, 0.-7, 11. Coking-coal resources and reserves, C.-7, 3. Department established, C.—7, 1. Dolomite, C.-7, 3. Effect of establishment of steel manufacture on employment, C.-7, 3, 10. Harbour facilities, C.-7, 3. Iron and Steel Industry Act, 1937, C.-7, 1. Limestone, C.-7, 3. Preliminary, C.-7, 2. Taranaki ironsands, C.-7, 2. Testing of iron-ores, C.-7, 2. Visit of Brassert's experts, C.-7, 2. Iron and steel castings: Manufacture by Railways Department, D.-2, ix. Timber trade, C.-3, 27. Trade schools, E.-2, 10. INFANT-LIFE PROTECTION. See under EDUCATION. IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY. See under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. IRRIGATION. 'See. under PUBLIC WORKS. JUSTICE AND PRISONS — Prosecutions, mining industry, C.-2, 65, 69, 77, 82.

KAPERIERA TE POKE AND OTHERS — Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6a. KAPITI ISLAND RESERVE— Report, C.-6, 11. KAURI-GUM INDUSTRY. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. KINDERGARTENS. See under EDUCATION. LABOUR— Employment— Effect of steel-manufacture on, 0.-7, 3, 10. Promotion amongst Maoris, G.—9, 4. Unemployed workers : Settlement, D.-l, xxxiii. LANDS AND SURVEY— Drainage operations — Hauraki Plains : Annual report, C.-8. Rangitaiki Land Drainage : Annual report, C.-11. Swamp drainage : Annual report, 0.-4. Improvement, D.-l, xxxiii, 53. Kauri-gum industry : Annual report, C.-12. National endowments : Annual report, C.-14. Orakei: Report of Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report as to grievances alleged by Maoris with regard to certain lands at Orakei, in the City of Auckland, G.-6. Public Domains and National Parks: Annual report, C.-10— National parks, 0.-10, 6. Arthur Pass, C.-10, 11. Egmont, C.-10, 10. Tongariro, C.-10, 8. Public domains, C.-10, 1. Scenery preservation — Annual report, C.-6. — Condition of reserves, &c., C.-6, 5. Expenditure — Comparison of, 1904—5 to 1938-39, 0.-6, 10. For the year, 0.-6, 10. Future operations, C.-6, 7. General, C.-6, 6. Gifts of scenic areas, C.-6, 4. Kapiti Island Reserve, C.-6, 11. Legislation, 0.-6, 5. Private Scenic Reserves, C.—6, 6. Reserves made during year under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and amendments, 0.-6, 8. Revocations of reservations, 0.-6, 9. Scenery Preservation Board, C.-6, 4. Summary of reserves, C.-6, 9. Supervision of reserves, C.-6, 4. Under-Secretary, report of, 0.-6, 1. Settlement — Crown-lands settlement: Annua! report— Educational endowment, C.-l, 33. Finance — Expenditure, C.-l, 34. National endowment, C.-l, 33. Rebates, C.-l, 33. Receipts, arrears, and postponements, C.-l, 7, 33, 53. Lands — All lands held on lease, C.-l, 51. Development, C.—l, 30. Endowment: Leased and administered by Land Boards, C.-l, 52. For selection, C.-l, 33. Selection during year, C.-l, 51. Inferior : Special settlement, C.-l, 32. Land-for-settlements, C.-l, 52. Of the Dominion : Position, C.-l, 50. Reserved for various purposes, C.-l, 34. Legislation, C.-l, 2. Protection of high and steep country, and bushpreservation generally, C.-l, 2. Reports of Commissioners of Crown Lands : Extracts from, C.-l, 35-40. Review of past year, 0.-1, 2. Settlements established : Summary, C.-l, 40. Small farms, C.-l, 3-29. Discharged soldiers : Annual report, C.-9— Applications for land, C.-9, 2. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account, C.-9, 2. Lands proclaimed, C.-9, 1. Total lands acquired for the Crown by discharged soldiers and held at 31st March, C.-9, 2.

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