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PETROL— Fuel-oil tanks, H-27, 7. Prospecting, &c., C-2, 4. Rationing, H-40, 27 ; H-44, 42. Sales, H-11, 23 ; H-44, 15. PHYSICAL WELFARE AND RECREATION— B-l [Pt. ll], 29 ; C-3, 55 ; G-9, 8, 10 ; H-22, 9. POLICE FORCE— Annual report, H-16. Arms Bureau, H-16, 5. Communications, H-16, 4. Cook Islands, A-3, 12, 32. Criminal Registration Branch, H-16, 4. Criminal statistics, H-16, 6. Gaming and racing— Gaming offences, H-16, 6. Submissions to Royal Commission on, H-23, 132. Growth of Department, H-16, 7. Offences reported, &c. : Return, H-16, 8. Pay and allowances, H-16, 13. Police buildings, H-16, 3. Police Force Act, 1947, H-16, 1. Police launches, H-16, 4. Proportion of police to population, &c.: Return, H-16, 12. Prosecutions— Hotelkeepers, H-16, 6. Sly-grog selling, H-16, 6. Under Motor-vehicles Act, H-16, 7. Search parties, H-16, 6. Strength and distribution : Return, H-16, 12. Transport, H-16, 3. Western Samoa, A-4, 39, 52. Work for other Departments, H-16, 5. POLIOMYELITIS. See under HEALTH. POPULATION— Births : Increase, E-l, 2. Cook Islands, A-3, 4, 11, 28. External migration, H-11, 67. Immigration, H-11, 12, 44. Population Commission, United. Nations, A-2, 64. Vital statistics, H-31, 2. Western Samoa, A-4, 39, 52. POST AND TELEGRAPH— Buildings and land, F-l, 20. Cook Islands, A-3, 18. DepartmentAnnual report, F-l. Finance, B-l [Pt. ll], 29; F-l, 2, 25. Public securities held by, B-10, 8. International Telecommunications Union, A—l, 80. Money-order and Savings-bank services, F-l, 19. Motor-vehicles : Registration, &c. F—l, 23, 24. National savings, F-l, 24, 28. Niue Island, A-3, 34. Postal betting : Gaming and jacing, H-23, 92. Postal services, F-l, 5, 25. Radio services, F-l, 17. Staff, F-l, 2. Stores, F-l, 23. Telegraph services, F-l, 10, 26. Telephone exchange services, F-l, 14, 26.

POST AND TELEGRAPH—continued Telephone service: Illegal off-course betting, &c., H-23, 41, 46. Toll calls, B-l [Pt. ll], 32. Universal Postal Union, A-l, 80. Western Samoa, A-4, 28. Work performed for other Departments, F-l, 23. Workshops, F-l, 23. POTTERY AND CERAMICS— H-34, 14 ; H-44, 5. PRESS— Freedom of information, A-l, 67 ; "\A-2, 82. Newspaper space diverted to racing, &c., H-23, 117, 122. PRESTON AND CO., LTD.— Report on petition of, 1-2, 2. PRICES— Economic pressure, B-6, 2. Fresh meat supplies, H-36. Guaranteed, B-6, 26 ; H-30, 12, 14. Index Committee, 1948 : Report, H-48. Index numbers, B-16, 10. Lime and fertilizers, H-46, 8. Milk, H-30b. Price control, A-4, 26 ; H-44, 28. Primary production : Long-term contracts, B-6, 7, 8, 26. Retail: Basic foodstuffs, B-6, x. Stabilization : Subsidies paid, H-44, 38. Tobacco, H-44, 40. PRIMARY INDUSTRY. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. PRISONS. See JUSTICE AND PRISONS. PRODUCTION— Increase, B-6, 30. Index numbers of value and volume, B-16, 11. PROTHEROE, A. G., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1-2, 4. PROTOCOLS— Regulation of whaling during season 1947-48, A-13. Supplementary: Entry into force of the Whaling Protocol of 26th November, 1945, A-12. Tariffs and trade, A-Ba. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS— Balance-sheets and statements of accounts, B-l [Pt. ll]. Controller and Auditor-General: Report, B-I [Pt. ll]. Public accounts, with supplementary statements, including the public debt and transactions, B-l [Pt. I]. PUBLIC DEBT. See DEBT. PUBLICATIONS— Ethnological, G—ll, 1. External Affairs Department, A-l, 115. Obscene, A-2, 76. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, A-15, 14.

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