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FINANCE —continued Defence— Army, H-19, 12. Compulsory military training, B-6, 16 ; H-19b, 4. Navy, H-5, 9. Devaluation of sterling currency, B-6, 4 ; B-18. Earthquake and War Damage Fund, B-11. Education, E-l, 28-36 ; E-8. Professional engineers in New Zealand, H-39, 58, 61. Estimates, B-6, 14; B-7 [Pt. I] ; B-7 [Pt. ll]. Exchange rate : Sterling devaluation, B-18. External affairs, A-l, 67. Fire brigades of the Dominion, H-12, 1, 6, 7. Friendly societies and trade-unions, H-l, 3. General Assembly Library, H-32, 4. Government Insurance Commissioner, H-8. Housing, B-13, 9. Industries and Commerce Department, H-44, 23. Internal Affairs Department, H—22, 14. Invercargill Licensing Trust, H-24, 3, 4-30. Labour and Employment Department, H-11, 54. Lands —- Drainage operations—Hauraki Plains, C-8, 2, 6. Rangitaiki, C—ll, 3. Swamp, C-4, 2, 3. Kauri-gum, C-12, 2. Scenery preservation, C-6, 7. Settlement, C-l, 4, 5, 8, 54, 57, 58, 59. Linen-fiax industry of New Zealand, H-44b, 3, 4-6. Local Government Commission, H-28, 13. Local Government Loans Board, B-17. Maori affairs, G-9, 3, 18, 21, 24, 26, 28 ; G-11, 2. Marine Department, H-15, 18, 25, 40, 42, 48. Marketing Department, H-30, 27-36, 45. Masterton Licensing Trust, H-24a, 4, 5, 6. Mental hospitals, H-7, 23-27. Mining industry, C-2, 1, 2, 18, 26, 32, 33, 34 ; C-2a, 1, 47-64. Ministry of Works, D-l, 4, 15, 29, 73, 96. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, H-21, 11. National Provident Fund, H-l 7. New Zealand National Airways Corporation, H-35. New Zealand Broadcasting Service, F-3, 18, 22-27. New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board, H-22a, 4, 9. Patents, designs, and trade-marks, H-10, 3. Police Force, H-16, 13, 14. Post and Telegraph Department, F-l, 2, 30. Printing and Stationery Department, H-36, 35. Prisons, H-20, 8. Public Accounts— Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts, B-l [Pt. IV]. Controller and Auditor-General: Report, B-l [Pt. ll], Public accounts, with supplementary statements, including the public debt and transactions, B-l [Pt. I]. Public debt: Repayment, B-2. Public securities held in the Dominion or elsewhere, B-10. Public Service Superannuation Board, H-26. Public Trust Office, B-9 ; B-9a. Railways Department, D-2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 13-27, 29, 32.

FlNANCE—continued Rehabilitation Department, H-18, 4, 6, 11, 12 13, 19-22, 25. Reserve Bank of New Zealand, B-16. Scientific and Industrial Research Department H-34, 7. * Sheep-farming industry, H-46a, 50, 55, 135. Social security, H-9a. State Advances Corporation of New Zealand, B-13. State Fire Insurance Office, H-6. Accident Insurance Branch, H-6a. State Forest Service, C-3, 5, 6, 69, 81, 83. State Hydro-electric Department, D-4, 2, 23. Teachers' Superannuation: Thirty-ninth, and fortieth and final reports, E-8. Tokelau Islands, A-6, 11. Tourist and health resorts, H-2, 14. Transport Department, H-40, 2, 3, 7, 11, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36, 56, 57, 59, 61, 62, 64. United Nations, A-2, 120 ; A-2a, 56 : A-8, 7 • A-18, 16, 21. Waterfront Industry Commission, H-45, 17 78 94. Western Samoa, A-4, 26. World Wood Pulp Conference, Montreal, 1949 C-3a, 35-46, 63, 84. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. See under BUDGET. FINLAND— Revival of pre-war treaties and agreements with, A-9. FIORDLAND— H-2, 9. FIORDLAND EXPEDITION— H-22, 9. FIRE BRIGADES OF THE DOMINION— Annual Report, H-12. FIRES— Forest, C-3, 48, 74, 76. FIRE SERVICES BILL—--1-11,2; 1-16,3. FISHING— H-2, 9 ; H-15, 17-50 ; H-22, 20, 24, 26. FLAX. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. FOODSTUFFS— Comparison of retail prices of basic foodstuffs, B-6, xix. Control, H-44, 27. Food and Agricultural Organization, A-l, 78 • H-29, 25. Fourth session, Washington, 1948 : Report of New Zealand delegation, A-8. International Emergency Food Committee, A-l, 80; H-44, 21. Standardization, H-44a, 11. Wastage, A-2, 85. World food situation, H-34, 4. FONG YEE WAI — Petition, 1-1, 2.

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