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Maori Rating The total Maori rates paid, including arrears, during the year under review was £2,556. Maori rates levied for the year 1948-49 amounted to £2,328. I have, &c., E. Taylor, Chief Drainage Engineer. The Under-Secretary for Lands, Wellington. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS A statement of accounts is published in parliamentary paper 8.-l [Pt. IV].

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