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BALANCE-SHEETS AND STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNTS— Audited accounts, B-l [Pt. IV]. BALKANS— A-2, 28. BANKING AND CURRENCY— Bank of New Zealand : Annual report, B-15. Dollar loan, B-6, 7. Dollar situation, B-6, 3, 4, 7 ; B-18. Ministerial Conference : Ministers of Finance, Commonwealth countries, B-6, 4. Exchange-rate, B-l [Pt. ll], 21, 22 ; B-6, 13, 20 ; B-15, 8 ; B-16, 3, 5, 10, 14 ; B-17, 2 ; B-18, 3, 11. Inflation, B-6, 2, 10. Money : Increase in volume, B-6, 10. Post Office Savings-bank: Western Samoa, A-4, 29. Reserve Bank— Advances to the Government by way of overdraft, B-l [Pt. I], 72. Annual report, B-16. Sterling currency—■ Budget Statement, B-6, 4. Devaluation : Broadcast statements by Right Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps and Right Hon. Walter Nash; statement by Right Hon. Walter Nash to House of Representatives ; full text of joint communique issued in Washington at end of discussions between United States, United Kingdom, and Canada on dollar situation, B-18. Trading banks, B-16, 8. BRITISH COMMONWEALTH— A-l, 9. BROADCASTING— International Telecommunications Union, A-l, 85. National Orchestra : Expenditure, B-l [Pt. ll], 28. New Zealand Broadcasting Service, public securities held by, B-10, 7. Western Samoa, A-4, 50. BUDGET— Financial Statement, B-6, 1-32. Government loans : Copy of prospectus, B-6, xxvi. Surplus, 1948, B-6, 1, 14, 32. Tables, B-6, i-xxv. 'BULGARIA— Observance of human rights with reference to the trials of Church leaders, A-2a, 35. Peace settlement, A-l, 26. CANTEEN BOARD— B-l [Pt. ll], 39, 40. CARLTON HOTEL, LONDON— Purchase, A-l, 87 ; B-l [Pt. ll], 21. CHILDREN. See WOMEN AND CHILDREN. CHRISTMAS ISLAND PHOSPHATES— B-l [Pt. ll], 34; B-6, 25.

COMMITTEES, SELECT— External Affairs : Report, A—l, 9. CONSOLIDATED FUND— B-l [Pt. I], 4, 6, 61 ; B-6, 14, i, ii. COOK ISLANDS. See under ISLAND TERRITORIES. COST PLUS CONTRACTS— B-l [Pt. ll], 23. CUSTOMS— Cost of collecting Customs and other revenue by the Customs Department, B-l 2. CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC— Loan to, B-l 6, 4. DEBT— PublicBudget Statement, B-6, 20. Burden, B-6, xxi. Domicile, B-6, 20. Increases and decreases, B-l [Pt. ll], 17; B-6, 22, xxiv. Interest payment, B-6, 2, 21, xxiii. Management, B-16, 6. Maturity and domicile, B-6, xxii. Outstanding, B-l, [Pt. I], 68. Repayment, B-l [Pt. ll], 18 ; B-6, 21. Report and statement of accounts for the year, B-2. Transactions, &c, B-l [Pt. I], 68. DEFENCE— Air, B-6, 16. Air Defence Fund, B-l [Pt. ll], 36. Compulsory military training, B-6, 16. Cost, B-6, 16. Navy, B-6, 16. Vessels : Purchase, A-l, 89 ; B-l [Pt. ll], 37. New Zealand Joint Service Liaison Staff, A-l, 89. Occupation Force in Japan, B-l [Pt. ll], 37, Rationing, B-l [Pt. ll], 37. Stores, B-l [Pt. ll], 37. DENMARK— Exchange of notes with regarding abolition of visas, A-13. DISPLACED PERSONS— A-l, 33, 81; A-2, 91, 104; A-2a, 54; B-l [Pt. ll], 26, 40; B-6, 17. DOLLAR SITUATION. See under BANKING AND CURRENCY. DROUGHT AND FLOOD RELIEF— B-15, 9. DRUGS— A-l, 57 ; A-2, 96 ; A-4, 41. EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE— Budget Statement, B-6, 29. Commission : Report, B-11. EAST COAST MAORI SOLDIERS' FUND— B-l [Pt. ll], 39.

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