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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1940 Session I

INDEX TO APPENDIX TO THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SECOND SESSION, TWENTY-SIXTH PARLIAMENT.

VOLUME I, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS A-B. VOLUME 11, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, C—G. VOLUME 111, PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, H—l.

NOTE. —Paper Number before Page Number.

AALAND ISLANDSPosition : League of Nations report, A.-sa, 3. ACCIDENTS — Air Department, H.-37, 21. Death and injury in fires, H.-12, 3. Factories, H.-11, 2. Mining and quarry, C.-2, 8. Glen Afton Collieries Royal Commssion, C.-13. Motor, fatal, H.-40. 3. Road accident statistics, H.-40, 11. State Forest Service, C.-3, 6. ACTIVITIES OF DEFENCE FORCES OF NEW ZEALAND IN RELATION TO THE WAR Statement by Minister of Defence, H.-19a. ADAMS, R., AND OTHERS Roport on petition of, 1.—2, 3. ADMIRALTY CHARTS. See under MARINE. ADVERTISING— Broadcasting : Revenue, F.-3, 9. Internal Affairs Department, H.-22, 15. Marketing Department, H.-30, 16. Railways Department, D.-2, 19. AFFORESTATION. See FORESTRY. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL — Agricultural Lime Industry : Report, H.-29b. Agricultural research, H.-34, 7, 9, 10, 13, 30, 65. Agricultural Workers Act and Shearers' Accommodation Act: Administration, &c., H.-l 1, 10. Cook Islands, A.-3, 4. Dairy industry : Export butter-box pool, C.-3, 32. Committee, Select. See under COP/IMITTEES. Department : Annual report, H.-29— Accounts Division : Report of Accountant, H.-29, 4. Animal Research Division : Report of Director — Buildings, H.-29, 16. Diagnostic work at Wallaceville, H. 29, 16. Research, H. 29, 17. Staff, H.-29, 16. I—H.

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL—continued. Department: Annual report, H-29 —continued. Dairy Division.: Report of Director— Butter, H.-29, 33, 34. Regrading, H.-29, 35. Casein, H.-29, 34. Certificate-of-record testing, H.-29, 36. Cheese, H.-29, 34. Regrading, H.-29, 35. Dairy-factory managers, 1934, H.-29, 35. Dairy Laboratory, Wallaceville, H.-29, 36. Export values, H.-29, 33. Farm-dairy instruction, H.-29, 35. Herd-testing, H.-29, 37. Inspection of New Zealand dairy-produce in Great Britain, H.-29, 35. Milking-machines, H.-29, 35. Milk and cream samples : Check-testing, H.-29, 35. Quantities graded for export, H.-29, 33. Short-crediting of butterfat to suppliers of some dairy companies, H.-29, 35. The season, H.-29, 33. Zoning, H.-29, 36. Director-General's report— Animal management, H.-29, 2. Feed-supplies : Shortage, H.-29, 2, 3. Pigkeeping, H.-29, 3. Production : Increase, H.-29, 2. Top-dressing, H.-29, 3. Wheat, &c. : Increased acreage, H.-29, 2. Fields Division : Report of Director— Agricultural instruction, H.-29, 22. Arable crops, H.-29, 20. Barley, H.-29, 21. Chemical laboratory, H.-29, 32. Departmental photography, H.-29, 32. Exhibits at shows, H.-29, 32. Experiments, H.-29, 22. Experimental farms and areas, H.-29, 22. Fertilizers : Registration, H.-29, 31. Field experimental work, H.-29, 22. Flock House, H.-29, 22. Land-utilization, H.-29, 30. National Council of Primary Production, H.-29, 20. Oats, H.-29, 21.

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AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL —continued. Department: Annual report, H.-29—continued. Fields Division —continued. Onions, H.-29, 21. Phormium industry, H.-29, 32. Potatoes, H.-29, 21. Seeds, H.-29, 25, 27, 29. The season, H.-29, 20. Young farmers' clubs, H.-29, 31. Horticulture Division : Report of Director— Bee-keeping industry, H.-29, 42. Centennial Exhibition, H.-29, 42. Cider-making, H.-29, 41. Fruit and vegetables : Local marketß, H.-29, 39. Fruit: Cold storage, H.-29, 40. Fruit export, H.-29, 38. Fruitgrowing, H.-29, 38. Fruits, plants, &c., imported, H.-29, 39. Hop-culture, H.-29, 41. Instructional and experimental work, H.-29, 40. Market-gardeners : Organization, H.-29, 39. New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, H.-29, 41. Nurseries : Registration and inspection, H.-29, 42. Orchard registration and orchard-tax, H.-29, 42. To Kauwhata Horticultural Station, H.-29, 41. Tobacco-culture, H.-29, 41. Viticulture and winemaking, H.-29, 40. Live-stock Division : Report of DirectorHealth of live-stock, H.-29, 5. Noxious weeds, H.-29, 15. Poultry, H.-29, 13. Rabbits : Nuisance, H.-29, 14. Stock — And meat condemned: Compensation, H.-29, 1. Exportation, H.-29, 13. Importation, H.-29, 12. Slaughter, H.-29, 11. Statistics, H.-29, 11. Wool, H.-29, 13. Minister's report — Farmers' requirements, safeguarding, H.-29, 1. Live-stock research, H.-29, 1. National Council of Primary Production, H.-29, 1. Superphosphate-prices, H.-29, 1. Nauru and Ocean Islands phosphate : Report of New Zealand Commissioner, H.-29, 44. Employment-promotion schemes, 11. 11a, 4, 5. Foodstuffs : Storage, H.-34, 2. Fruit — Gas storage, H.-34, 3. Research, H.-34, 45. Linen-fibre production, H.-34, 2. Man-power of the Dominion —Utilization : Statement by Minister, H.-19b. Marketing Department— Export Division : Annual report, H.-30. Internal Marketing Division, H.-30a. Niue Island, A.-6, 3. Seeds purchased during the year by the Department, H.-4, 3. Share-milking Agreements Act: Administration. H.-11, 10. Sheep— Annual returns, H.-23. Sheep-farming Industry Commission : Report, H.-29a. Tobacco industry : Report, H.-44, 25. Tobacco research, H.-34, 54. Western Samoa, A.-4, 13. Wheat and flour control, H.-38, 13. Wheat, flour, and bread: Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 24. Wheat Research Institute, H.-34, 44. AIR DEPARTMENT. See under DEFENCE. AIR MAILS. See under POST AND TELEGRAPH. ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY— Report, H.-22, 15. ALIENS— Registration and internment, H.-16, 7. ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT— Report, H.-22, 8. ANNUAL SHEEP RETURNS - Report, H.-23.

APPRENTICES. See under LABOUR. AUCTIONEERS — Licenses issued, &c., H.-22, 6. AUDITOR-GENERAL. See under PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. AUSTRALIA— New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner in : Report, H.-2, 6. AVIATION (see also DEFENCE)— Aerial Surveys, C.-la, 3 ; H.-19, 4. BANKING AND CURRENCY— Bank of New Zealand : Annual balance-sheet, £.-15. Reserve Bank of New ZealandAnnual report, 8.-16. Credit—Utilization : Budget statement, 8.-6, 2. BROADCASTING (see also POST AND TELEGRAPH)— Cook Islands, A.-3, 5. In Schools, E.-2, 3. National Broadeating Service : Annual report, F.-3— Accommodation, F.-3, 5. Children's sessions, F.-3, 8. Community service, F.-3, 7. Entertainment, F.-3, 7. Finance — Accounts, &c. — National Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 5, 6. National Commercial Broadcasting Service, F.-3, 9, 10. Advertising, F.-3, 9. General, F.-3, 7. Hours of transmission, F.-3, 2. National security, F.-3, 9. New stations F.-3, 9. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, F.-3, 8. Percentages of licenses to population, F.-3, 2. Programmes, F.-3, 2. Receiving-licenses, F.-3, 1. Special services, F.-3, 8. Staff, F.-3, 5. Technical, F.-3, 5, 9. Utility sessions, F.-3, 7. Niue Island, A.-6, 3. Radio research-, H.-34, 63. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. BUDGET— Financial Statement— Annual appropriations, estimates, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Budget surplus, 1939-40, 8.-6, 1. Company-taxation, 8.-6, 5. Comparison of income-taxation, 8.-6, 5. Consolidated Fund Estimates, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Consolidated Fund : Reduced revenue, 8.-6, 4. Credit, utilization of Reserve Bank, 8.-6, 2. Death and gift duties, revised, 8.-6, 6. Diversion of productive effort to war purposes, 8.-6, 2. Economy in normal expenditure, 8.-6, 4. Empire air training scheme, 8.-6, 3. Estimates, 1940-41 : Revenue and expenditure, 8.-6, 6. Excess profits, 8.-6, 5. Finance Emergency Regulations, 8.-6, 10. Hardship, provision for, 8.-6, 7. Highways and roads, 8.-6, 9. Housing, 8.-6, 9. Hydro-electric development, 8.-6, 9. Imports, reduction of, 8.-6, 3. Income-tax adjustments, 8.-6, 4. Income-tax, liability of State trading activities for, 8.-6, 5. Income-tax, 1940-41 : Yield, 8.-6, 5. Income-taxation : Comparison, 8.-6, 5. Tnterest-free loans, 8.-6, 8. Land-development and afforestation, 8.-6, 9. Loan contributions, 8.-6, 8. Loan programme, 8.-6, 8, 9. National savings loans, 8.-6, 7. National security tax, 8.-6, 7. Public buildings, 8.-6j 9. Permanent appropriations, estimates, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Profits, excess, 8.-6, 5. Public debt transactions, 1939-40, 8.-6, 9. Public Works, 8.-6, 8. Railway construction and improvement, 8.-6,8. Revenue : Estimate, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Roads and highways, 8.-6, 9.

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BUDGET—continued. Financial Statement —continued. Sales-tax increased, 8.-6, 7. Silver coin profits, 8.-6, 6. State trading activities : Liability for income-tax, 8.-6, 5. Surplus, 1939-40, 8.-6, 1. Surplus, 1940-41, estimated, 8.-6, 6. Surtax on incomes, 8.-6, 5. Taxation estimates, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Taxation of companies, 8.-6, 5. Tax on debenture interest, 8.-6, 5. Telegraph and telephone extension. 8.-6, 9. War-costs met from current production, 8.-6, 2. War-costs, overseas, financed by United Kingdom, 8.-6, 3. War expendituc : Estimates, 8.-6, 3. War Expenses Account, 8.-6, 4. Tables — No. 1 : Abstract of receipts and expenditure of the financial year ended 31st March, 1940. See Parliamentary Paper B.—l [Pt. I]. No. 2 : The public debt on 31st March, 1940. See Parliamentary Paper 8.-l [Pt. Ill], No. 3 : Revenue for the year ended 31st March, 1940, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1939, 8.-6, ii. No. 4 : Comparative statement of the estimated and actual revenue of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1940, 8.-6, iii. No. f) : Estimated revenue for 1940-41, compared with the actual revenue for 1939-40, 8.-6, iv. No. 6 : Stamp and death duty revenue for the year ended 31st March, 1940, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1939, 8.-6, iv. No. 7 : Statement of the Customs duties collected for 1939-40, compared with 1938-39, 8.-6, v. No. 8 : Statement of the actual net expenditure of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1940, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1939, 8.-6, v. No. 9 : Comparative statement of the appropriated and actual expenditure of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account) for the financial year ended 31st March, 1940, 8.-6, vii. No. 10: Estimated net expenditure for 1940-41, compared with the actual net expenditure for 1939-40, 8.-6, ix. No. 11 : Public Works Fund—Statement showing net expenditure under appropriations for the year ended 31st March, 1940, compared with the year ended 31st March, 1939, 8.-6, x. No. 12 : Statement showing the total ways and means of the Public Works Fund General Purposes Account, and the total net expenditure to 31st March, 1940, 8.-6, xi. No. 13 : Statement showing the amount charged to " Unauthorized" in each financial year from Ist April, 1930, to 31st March, 1940, 8.-6, xii. No. 14 : Statement showing the available financial resources of the various accounts on the 31st March, 1940, as compared with the 31st March, 1939, 8.-fi, xiii. No. 15: Statement of amounts paid on account of pensions and social security benefits for the financial years ended 31st March, from 1936 to 1940, 8.-6, xiii. No. 16 : Education expenditure—Total expenditure on education out of public funds since 1913-14, 8.-6, xiv. No. 17 : Statement of half-yearly instalments of principal and interest for repayment of debt funded with Imperial Government, 8.-6, xv. No. 18 : Statement showing maturity dates and domicile of debt outstanding as at 31st March, 1940, 8.-6, xvi. No. 19 : Statement showing values of imports and exports of the Dominion in each financial year ended 31st March, from 1931 to 1940, 8.-6, xvii. No. 20 : Table showing improvement in economic conditions, 8.-6, xvii. Copy of prospectus of 1939 London conversion loan, 8.-6, xviii. BUREAU OF INDUSTRY. Sea under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. BUTTON, M. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. CABLES. See under POST AND TELEGRAPH.

CANADA— New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner to Canada and Eastern United States, and Western Canada : Reports, H.-2, 5, 6. CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK— Grant to Native Purposes Fund Board, G.-11, 4. CARR, F., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2. CARRIAGE BY AIR BILL— Select Committee report on, I.—II, J. CENSORSHIP— Postal packots and telegrams, F.-l, 10. CENSUS AND STATISTICS— Cook Islands, A.-3, 3. Niue Island, A.-6, 4. Western Samoa, A.-4, 13. CHANGE OF NAME Applications, H.-22, 14. CHATTELS TRANSFER ACT— Report, H.-44, 24. CHICK, W. V.— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2. CHILD WELFARE. See under EDUCATION. CHINA— Appeal to League of Nations, A.-sa, 2. CIVIL AVIATION. See under DEFENCE. CIVIL LIST ACT, 1920 Disbursements under, 8.-l [Pt. I], 36. CLAYTON, C. N., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 2. CLUBS— Chartered, H.-22, 13. COAL. See under MINING INDUSTRY. COMMITTEES, SELECT— Reports on Bills, petitions, &c.— Agricultural and Pastoral—Read, L. A., 1.-10, 1. Special report, 1.-10, 1. Defence— Final report, 1.-12, 1. Robbie, S. L., 1.-12, 1. Special reports, 1.-12, 1. Defence : Recess Committee— Report, 1.-12 a. Goldfields and Mines— Schedules of petitions held over, 1.-4, 1. Statutes Amendment Bill, 1.-4, 1. Industries and Commerce— Final report, 1.-13, 2. Hart, J. T., and others, 1.-13, 1. L. H. Johnston Motors, Ltd., 1.—13, 2. Sea Carriage of Goods Bill, 1.-13, 1. Special reports, 1.—13, 2. Sullivan, A., and others, 1.-13, 2. Labour Bills— Carr, F., and others, 1.-9, 2. Chick, W. V., 1.-9, 2. Gushing, E. L., and others, 1.-9, 2. Final report, 1.-9, 2. Heeny and others, 1.-9, 2. King, C. C., and others, 1.-9, 2. Shops and Offices Amendment Bill, 1.-9, 1. Special reports, 1.-9, 2. Statutes Amendment Bill, 1.-9, 1. Lands — Clayton, C. N., and others, 1.-5, 2. Local Legislation Bill, 1.-5, 2. Mokau Harbour Bill, 1.-5, 3. Moyle, J. A., 1.-5, 2. Reserves and other Lands Disposal Bill, 1.-5, 2. Small Farms Amendment Bill, 1.-5, 3. Statutes Amendment Bill, 1.-5, 2. Waitara Borough Empowering Bill, J.-5, 2.

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COMMITTEES, SELECT —continued. Reports on Bills, petitions, &c.—continued. Lands—continued. Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill, I —5 2 Wooffindin, M. V., 1.-5, 2. Local Bills — Greymouth Harbour Board Loan Bill, 1.—16, 1. Invercargill City Council Tramway Depreciation Fund Empowering Bill, 1.-16, 2. Local Legislation Bill, 1.-16, 2. Mokau Harbour Bill, 1.—16, 2. Waitara Borough Empowering Bill, 1.—16, 2. Waitara Harbour Bill, I.—lB, 2. Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill, 1.—16, 2. Native Affairs— Aorangi Block, 1.-3, 9. Bruce Bay Lands, 1.-3, 3. East Coast Native Trust Lands: Balance-sheets for Year ending 30th Juno, 1940, 1.-3, 8. East Coast Native Trust Lands Commissioner, 1.-3, 10. Final Report, 1.-3, 11. Goldfields Revenue Ohinemuri and Hauraki districts, 1.-3, 6. Hamahona Pohatu and others, 1.-3, 10. Hamiora Tubaka, 1.-3, 4. Hami Kaata tc Ao, 1.-3, 5. Hauraki Goldfields, 1.-3, 9. Henarc Matanuku, 1.-3, 6. Hirini Whaanga Christy and others, 1.-3, 6. Hirini Whaanga Christy, 1.-3, 3. Hoani te Anini and others, 1.-3, 6. Hoani Pani or Piripi (deceased), Interests of, 1.-3, 4. Hoera Paratene and others, 1.—3, 5. Hone Paputene and others, 1.-3, 6. Hoone P. Tukariri and others, 1.-3, 7. Hori Kaiwai, 1.-3, 6. Kaho Heremaia and others, 1.-3, 8. Karauria Ruru and others, 1.-3, 3. Kenana River, 1.-3, 7. Kihi Patara and others, 1.-3, 7. Maaka Rapana te Kahuoterangi, 1.-3, 4. Mafeking Pere, 1.-3, 5. Mahia Block, 1.-3, 6. Mangaopuraka Block, 1.-3, 5. Manaaki Piripi and others, 1.-3, 5. Mangahauini Block, 1.-3, 6. Mangatu Nos. 1 and 4 Blocks, 1.-3, 3. Manukorihi Pa, 1.-3, 9. Manukorihi Pa, 1.-3, 8. Manutahi A 7a Block, 1.-3, 6. Maraehara Block, 1.-3, 6. Mason, J., 1.-3, 3. Matich, M„ 1.-3, 10. Native Purposes Bill, 1.-3, 8. Ngatimaru Block, 1.-3, 4. Nuhaka Block, 1.-3, 3. Pari Ngarangi Katitia and others, 1.-3, 5. Pehikuru Awatere and others, 1.-3, 9. Pouto Development Scheme, 1.-3, 10. Rakaukaka Block, 1.-3, 4. Rangirore te Maenae, 1.-3, 4. Rangi Tuanui Tamibana and others, 1.-3, 8. Rawiri Raroa Puhipuhi and others, 1.-3, 6. Rihitoto Mataia and others, 1.-3, 6. Ripeka Tuhaka, Will of, 1.-3, 4. Rore Katene and others, 1.-3, 7. Rori Watene, 1.-3, 8. Ruangarehu Block, 1.-3, 9. Special Report re Chairman, 1.-3, 10. Special Report re Clerk, 1.-3, 10. Taimutu Ariki Ngaia, 1.-3, 9. Tatara-a-kina Block, 1.-3, 3. Tauhara Middle Block, 1.-3, 7. Taumatamaire Block, 1.-3, 4. Tawapata South No. 3 Block, 1.-3, 7. Teieti Hoera, Estate of, 1.-3, 5. Teieti H era, Adoption of, 1.-3, 8. Te Rauna Hapc and others, 1.-3, 4. Te Rauna Hape and others, 1.-3, 9. Te Roera Taieha and another, 1.-3, 3. Tuahine Hata, 1.-3, 7. Turanganui Block, 1.-3, 8. Turea Block, 1.-3, 7. Waioturi Block, 1.-3, 5. Wi Pere Trust, 1.-3, 5. Wiremu Karaka and another, 1,-3. 9. Wircmu Tume and others, 1.-3, 4. Public HealthHealth Amendment Bill, 1.-7, 1.

COMMITTEES, SELECT —continued. Reports on Bills, petitions, &c.—continued. Public Petitions — A to L— Button, M. E., 1.-l, 2. Cox, N. R. A., and others, 1.-l, 1. Curran, J. E., I—l, 2. Darling, 0., 1.-l, 1. Estcourt, L. M., 1.-l, 2. Evans, S. W. R., and others, 1.-l, 1. Eyre, R., and others, 1.-l, 2. Final report, 1.-l, 2. Poster, T. V., 1.-l, 2. Gray, T., 1.-l, 2. Johnston, J. G., 1.-l, 2. Learv, C., I. 1, 2. M to Z— Adams, R., and others, 1.-2, 3. Final Report, T.-2, 3. Marshall, F. G., 1.-2, 3. Martin, N. L., and others, 1.-2, 3. Morpeth, W. T., 1.-2, 2. O'Brien, L. W., 1.-2, 2. Overton, W. H., and others, 1.-2, 2. Sheat, W. A., and others, 1.-2, 3. Silver, G. J., 1.-2, 2. Simpson, T. F., 1.-2, 2. Special Report re Chairman, 1.-2, 3. Special Report re Clerk, 1.-2, 3. Tauranga County Council and others, 1.-2, 2. Taylor, W. I)., and another, 1.-2, 3. Thompson, M., 1.-2, 2. Vanstone, H. E., 1.-2, 2. Westland Power, Limited, 1.-2, 2. Statutes Revision — Carriage by Air Bill, I.—ll, 1. Insurance Companies Bill, I.—ll, 2. Sea Carriage of Goods Bill, I.—ll, 2. Statutes Amendment Bill, 1.-11, 1. COMPANY PROMOTION— Lime-producing companies, H.-298, 14. CONTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL. See under PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. COUNTRY LIBRARY SERVICE— Annual report, H.-32A. COOK ISLANDS— Annual report — Agriculture, A.-3, 4. Education, A.-3, 3. Finance, A.-3, 1. Balance-sheet, A.-3, 10. Income and Expenditure Account, A.-3, 9. Justice and Prisons— Criminal jurisdiction, A.-3, 5. Native Land Court, A.-3, 5. Legislation, A.-3, 2. Medical and public health, A.-3, 2. Meteorological, A.-3, 6. Northern Cook Group : Extracts from annual roports of Agents, A.-3, 7-8. Police, A.-3, 5. Post and Telegraph service, A.-3, 5. Wireless, A.-3, 5. Public Works, A.-3, 4. Shipping, A.-3, 2. Southern Cook Group : Extracts from annual reports of Agents, A.-3, 6-7. Trade, A.-3, 1. Exports for year ended 31st December, 1937, A.-3, 1, 21. Imports for year ended 31st December, 1937, A.-3, 1, 11. Visits, A.-3, 1. Vital Statistics, A.-3, 3. COX, N. R. A., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 1. CRIMES. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS, also POLICE. CROWN LANDS. See under LANDS. CURRAN, J. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. CUSHING, E. L., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2.

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CUSTOMS— Cost of collecting Customs and other revenue by the Customs Department: Returns, 8.-12. Customs duties collected, 1939-40, compared with 1938-39, 8.-6, 5. DAIRY INDUSTRY. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. DARLING, o.— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 1. DEBT— Public— Repayment — Annual report, 8.-2. Statement of half-yearly instalments of principal and interest for repayment of debts funded with Imperial Government, 8.-6, xv. Statement showing maturity dates and domicile of debt outstanding, 8.-6, xvi. Statement showing the public debt of the Dominion for the year, 8.-l [Pt. lII]. Transactions, 1940-41, 8.-6, 9. DEER, THAR, CHAMOIS, AND GOATS— Destruction, C.-10, 8 ; 11.-22, 9. DEFENCE (see also WAR)— Activities of Defence Forces of Now Zealand in relation to the War : Statement by Minister of Dcfence, H.-19a. Air — Civil Aviation, H.-44, 3. Commercial air services,: Statistics, H.-40, 24, 29. Department, H.-37 — Chief of the Air Staff: Report, H.-37, 1-8. Controller of Aeronautical Inspection: Report, H.-37, 20-21. Controller of Civil Aviation : Report, H.-37, 9-20. Director of Meteorological Office: Report, H.-37, 22-24. Empire air training scheme, 8.-6, 3. Canteens : Establishment, &c., H .-30 a, 13. Committees, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Military : Annual report, H.-19 — Ammunition, H.-19, 6. Appendix : Tables showing strength of Forces as at 31st May, 1940, H.-19, 11. Arms and equpiment, H.-19, 6. Army and District Schools of Instruction, H.-19, 3. Buildings, works, and camps, H.-19, 6. Cadets : Training, H.-19, 4. Camp equipment, H.-19, 9. Canteens, H.—l9, 10. Clothing, H.-19, 8. Education Board, H.-19, 4. Expansion at Army and District Headquarters, H.-19, 4. Finance, H.-19, 10. General remarks, H.-19, I . Immediate measures on the outbreak of war, H.-19, 1. Mapping and surveying, H.-19, 4. Measures for home defence, H .-19, 4. Medical services, H.-19, 5. Movement of troops, H.-19, 8. National Military Reserve : Training, H.-19, 3. Rations and supplies, H.-19, 10. Regular Forces, H.-19, 5. Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force: Raising and training, H.-19, 2. Territorial Forces : Training, H.-19, 3. Training manuals, H.-19, 4. Transport, H.-19, 8. National security: Shipping, coastal, and navigation, H.-15, I . Naval: Annual report — Civilian employees, H.-5, 3. Drills, exercises, and training afloat, H.--5, 5. H.M. Dockyard, H.-5, 5. H.M.S. " Philomel," H.-5, 4. H.M. Ships " Whakakura," " James Cosgrove," " Humphrey," and " Thomas Currell," H.-5, 5. Naval Armament Depot, H.-5, 5. New Zealand Centennial celebrations, H.-5, 7. Other war activities, H.-5, 6. Personnel — Active service, H.-5, 1. Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division), 11.-o, 3. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Now Zealand Division), H.-5, 3.

DEFENCE (see also WAR) —continued. Naval: Annual report —continued. Proceedings — Cruisers, H.-5, 3. Escort vessels and H.M.S. " Endeavour," H.-5, 4. R.F.A. " Nucula," H.-5, 5. State, H.-5, 1. Training policy, H.-5, 6. Visits of foreign warships, H.-5, 6. Pacific Defence Conference, H.-38, 2. Police Force : Enlistments, H.-IG, 7. Public Servants with Defence Forces, H.-14, 2. Scientific man-power research, H .- 34, ,3. Works : Construction — Aerodromes and subsidiary services, D.-l, xx, 53. Naval, &e., D.-l, 57. DENTAL HYGIENE. See under HEALTH. DESIGNS. See PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS SETTLEMENT— Annual report, C.-9. DISEASES. See under HEALTH. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS — Report, H.-22, 13. DOGS — Registration : Prevention of hydatids, &e., 14.-22, 6. DOMINION LABORATORY— Report, H.-34, 72. DOMINION OBSERVATORY— Report, H. —34, 72. DOMINION MUSEUM. See NATIONAL ART GALLERY AND DOMINION MUSEUM. DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. See under LANDS. EAST COAST NATIVE TRUST LANDS. See under NATIVE AFFAIRS. EDUCATION— Buildings, &c.; Construction, D.-l, xix, 61. Child welfare, State care of children, special schools, and infant-life protection : Annual report, E.-4— Child welfare— Minister of Education —Extract from annual report: Children under supervision, number of, E.-4, 2. Statement of the Superintendent, Child Welfare Branch — Blind children, E.-4-, 8. Costley Trust, E.-4, 9. Field work, E.-4, 3. Illegitimacy, E.-4, 9. Infant-life protection, E.-4, 7. Institutions, E.-4, 3. Placement of children, E.-4, 5. Preventive work, E.-4, 3. Residential schools for backward children, E.-4, 3. School for the deaf, E.-4, 9. Young persons in employment, E.-4, 5. Tables relating to child welfare, E.-4, 4-JO. Cook Islands, A.--3, 3. Correspondence School, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 8. Endowments — Crown lands, C.-l, 24. Sthenic reserves, C.-6, 2. Expenditure : Total since 1913-14, 8.-6, xiv. Higher : Annual report, E.-7-— Candidates successful for degrees, E.-7, 5. Courses taken by students, E. -7, 2. Scholarships, bursaries, <Scc., E.-7, 4. Students on the books of University Colleges, E.-7, 2. Subjects taken by students, E.-7, 3. New Zealand School of Agriculture : Accounts — Canterbury College, E.-7, 35. Council, E.-7, 32. Massey College, E.-7, 33. Universities : Reports and accounts of the University of New Zealand and constituent colleges — Auckland, E.-7, 9. Canterbury, E.-7, 18. Otago, E.-7, 22. University of New Zealand, E.-7, 6. Victoria, E.-7, 14.

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EDUCATION —continued. Milk in schools, H.-31, 8, 9 ; H.-34, 12. Minister of : Annual report, E.-l— Child welfare, E.-l, 26. Classes— Evening technical and part-time day, E.-l, 21. Size of, E.-l, 15. Special for backward children, E.-l, 21. Education— Cost of, E.-l, 6. Higher (University), E.-l, 24. Educational institutions : Enrolments, E.-l, 8. Examinations, annual, E.-l, 25. Finance : Statement of expenditure and recoveries, &e., E.-l, 28. Introductory and general, E.-l, 2. Manual instruction, E.-l, 24. Post primary—■ Education, E.-l, 21. Length of course, E.-l, 20. Pupils— Commencing post-primary course in State schools, E.-l, 17. Conveyance and board, E.-l, 23. Destination, E.-l, 18. Leaving public primary schools, E.-l, 17. Number of, and teachers, in the public primary schools of tho different education districts, E.-l, 14. Schools— Buildings and sites, E.-l, 7. Consolidation of, E.-l, 22. Correspondence, E.-l, 22. Kindergarten, E.-l, 22. Intermediate and departments, E.-l, 21. Native, E.-l, 21. Number, E.-l, 8. Private secondary (registered), E.-l, 22. Registered private primary, E.-l, 22. Staffs of, E.-l, 13. Types of, E.-l, 5. Teachers— Classification, E.-l, 15. Number of teachers in the public primary schools of the different education districts, E.-l, 14. Salaries, E.-l, 17. Superannuation Fund, E.-l, 27. Training of, E.-l, 24. Vocational guidance and placement, E.-l, 20. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum talks, H.-21, 5, 6. Native children : Annual report— Report of the Senior Inspector— Aesthetic activities, E.-3, 2. Arts and crafts, E.-3, 3. Attendance, E.-3, 5. Buildings, E.-3, 5. Home and health, E.-3, 2. Organization and general, E.-3, 3, 4. Pacific Islands : Inspections, E.-3, 5. Scholarships, E.-3, 4. Schools : Maori mission, E.-3, 5. Secondary education, E.-3, 4. Social studies, E.-3, 2. Staff, E.-3, 5. Refresher course for teachers, E.-2, 1. Tables, E.-2, 6-11. Niue Island, A.-6, 3. Primary and post primary, annual. reportReport of Chief Inspector of Primary Schools— Correspondence school, E.-2, 4. District high schools, E.-2, 4. General, E.-2, 5. Handicapped children, E.-2, 3. Inspectorate, E.-2, 2. Libraries, E.-2, 4. Museums, E.-2, 4. Physical education, E.-2, 3. Radio and cinema, E. 2, 3. Readiness for formal instruction, E.-2, 4. Refresher courses, E.-2, 2. Training colleges, E.-2, 2. Report of Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools— Examinations, E.-2, 6. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, E.-2, 7. Routine work, E.-2, 5. School libraries, E.-2, 7. School rolls and staffing, E.-2, 6. Schools, development in, E.-2, 7. Staff, E.-2, 5. The war, E.-2, 8. University bursaries, E.-2, 6.

EDUCATION —continued. Primary and post primary : Annual report—continued. Report of the Superintendent of Technical Education— New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, E.-2, 9. Notable additions to buildings and equipment during the year, E.-2, 9. Tables relating to— Finance, E.-2, 33. Intermediate education, E.-2, 17. Primary education, E.-2, 10. Secondary and technical education, E.-2, 18. Training of teachers, E.-2, 31. Royal New Zealand Air Force, H.-37, 4. School hygiene, H.-31, 20. Schools of Mines, C.-2, 9, 10. Teachers' Superannuation Fund— Actuarial examination as at 31st March, 1940, E.-Ba. Annual report, E.-8. Ministerial report, E.-l, 27. EMPIRE AIR TRAINING SCHEME— Working of, H.-37, 3. EMERGENCY PRECAUTIONS - Co-operation by local bodies, H.-22, 6. Preparation : Statement by Minister of Internal Affairs, H.-22b. EMERGENCY REGULATIONS— Administration by Labour Department, H.-11, 12. Enemy Property Emergency Regulations: Control by Public Trustee, 8.-9, 2,. 4. Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939, H.-22A. EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION. See under LABOUR. ENEMY PROPERTY EMERGENCY REGULATIONS 1939— Control by Public Trustee, 8.-9, 2, 4. ESSON, LATE COLONEL J. J., C.M.G., V.D.— Tribute, H.-14, 10. ESTCOURT, L. M — Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. ESTIMATES— Main, 8.-7 [Pt. I], Public Works, 8.-7 a [Pt. I]. Supplementary, 8.-7 and 8.-7 a [Pt. ll], EUROPE— New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissioner in : Report 11.-2, 6. 1 EVANS, S. W. R., AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-l, 1. EXHIBITIONS— Canadian National, H.-44, 4. Golden Gate International Exposition, H.-44, 3. New York World's Fair, H.-44, 4. EXPLOSIVES AND DANGEROUS GOODS— Report, H.-22, 15. EYRE, R., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-l, 2. FACTORIES. See under LABOUR. FAIR RENTS ACT. See under LABOUR. FAMILY BENEFITS. See under SOCIAL SECURITY. FINANCE (see also BUDGET)— Agriculture Department, H.-29, 4. Agricultural Lime Industry, H.-29b, 6. Bank of New Zealand : Annual balance-sheet, 8.—15. Cook Islands, A.-3, 1, 9, 10. Customs— Cost of collecting Customs and other revenue of the Customs Department: Return, 8.-12. Customs duties collected, 1939—40, compared with 1938-39, 8.-6, 5. Defence : Military, H.-19, 10. Estimates— Main, 8.-7 [Pt. I]. Public Works, 8.-7 a [Pt. I]. Supplementary, 8.-7 and 8.-7 a [Pt. ll], Education— Higher, E.-7, 6-36.

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FINANCE (see also BUDGET) —continued. Minister's report, 8.-7, 6, 28. Primary and post-primary, E.-2, 33-43. Teachers' Superannuation Fund— Actuarial examination, E.-Ba. Annual report, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 27. Fire brigades of the Dominion, H.-12, 4. Friendly societies and trade-unions, H.-l, 3-5, 7-16. General Assembly Library, H.-32, 3. Government Insurance Commissioner, H.-8. Government Superannuation Funds — Public Service — Actuarial report, H.-26a. Annual report, H.-26. Railways, D.-5. Actuarial examination for the septennial period ended 31st March, 1939, D.-sa. Teachers, E.-l, 27 ; E.-8, E.-Ba. Actuarial examination as at 31st January, 1939, E.-BA. Health : Mental hospitals, H.-7, 18-20. Justice and Prisons, H.-20, 3. King George V Memorial Fund Board, H.-25. Labour Department— Employment promotion, H.-11a, 2, 12, 13. Expenditure during the year, H.—ll, 13. Lands — Drainage operations— Hauraki Plains, C.-8, 5. Rangitaiki, C.-11, 3. Swamp, C.-4, 3. Kauri-gum industry, C.-12, 2. Scenery preservation, C.-6, 6. Settlement — Crown lands, C.-l, 23, 24, 31. Discharged soldiers, C.-9, 2. Land for Settlements Act, 1925, C.-5, 3-8. Land Transfer Registration Department, H.-3, 1-5. League of Nations : Financial questions, &c., A.-5, 4; A.-sa, 6. Marketing Department —, Export Division, H.-30, 36, 42. Internal, H.-30, 17. Mining industry, C.-2, 1, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, 38. State Coal-mines, C.-2a, 6. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, H.-21, 11. National Broadcasting Services, F.-3, 1, 5, 9, 10. National Patriotic Fund, H.-22a, 2. National Provident Fund, H.-17. Native Affairs— Board of Native Affairs, G.-10, 14, 15, 21, 32, 39, 44, 49, 55, 59, 61. Department, G.-9, 3, 4. East Coast Native Trust Lands, G.-3, G.-4. Maori Purposes Fund Board, G.-11. Niue Island, A.-6, 1, 4. Patents, designs, and trade-marks, H.-10, 4. Police Force, H.-16, 20. Post and Telegraph Department — Financial operations, F.-l, 5. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 21. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 14, 23, 24. Printing and Stationery Department, H.-36, 2-4. Public Accounts— Abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the public accounts for the year, 8.-l [Ft. I]. Balance-sheets and statements of accounts of various Government Departments for the year, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 1940, and 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939. Controller and Auditor-General's report, 8.-l [Pt. ll]. Statement showing the public debt of the Dominion for the year, 8.-l [Pt. lII]. Public debt repayment: Report, 8.-2. Public Service — Commissioner's report, H.-14, 12-15. Superannuation Board—• Actuarial examination, H.-26a. Annual report, H.-26. Public Trust Office — Accounts for the year, 8.-9 a. Annual report, 8.-9. Public works, D. I, vi, 1-21, 83-89, 106-8. Railways, D.-2, 1, 7, 8, 34-63. Reserve Bank of New Zealand — Annual report, 8.-16. Credit: Utilization, 8.-6, 2. Rural Intermediate Credit Board, 8.-14. Social Security— Department, H.-9, 6, 9. Report of the Commissioner of Taxes upon the administration of Part IV of the Social Security Act, 1938, for the year ended 31st March, 1940, H,-9a,

FINANCE (see also BUDGET) •—continued. State Advances Corporation : Annual report, 8.-13. State Fire Insurance Office, H.-6. Accident Insurance Branch, H.-6a. State Forest Service, C.-3, 4, 29, 36. Stores Control Board, H.-4. Tourist and Health Resorts and Publicity Department, H.-2, 4. Transport: Dominion's Road Bill, 1935-39, H.-40, 8. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4, 5. FINLAND— Appeal of Finnish Government to League of Nations, A.-5, 2, 5. FIRE BRIGADES OF THE DOMINION— Annual report, H.-12— Administration, H.-12, 1. Areas protected by Fire Boards, H.-12, 4. Death and injury in fires, H.-12, 3. Dominion fire waste, H.-12, 1. Fire districts : Statistics, H.-12, 4. Fires with loss exceeding £5,000, H.-12, 2. Surveys of fires in fire districts, H.-12, 3. Fire Brigades Act: Report, H.-22, 13. FISHING. See under MARINE ; also INTERNAL AFFAIRS. FOOD AND OTHER SUPPLIES TO THE UNITED KINGDOM DURING THE WAR— Marketing Department report, H.-30, 3. Statement by Minister of Marketing, H.-30b. FOOTWEAR REGULATION ACT. See under LABOUR. FOREIGN CONSULS— H.-22, 14. FORESTRY— Budget statement, 8.-6, 9. Forestry Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, 22. State Forest Service : Annual report, C.-3— Administration, C.-3, 5. Animals killed in State forests, C.-3, 35. Areas — Added to permanent and provisional State forests, C.-3, 33. State Forests, C.-3, 2, 33. Withdrawn from permanent and provisional State forests, C.-3, 33. Commerical afforestation companies, C.-3, 32. Constitution of State forests, C.-3, 8. Erosion, C.-3, 2. Export butter-box pool, C.-3, 32. Extraction and commerical development, C.-3, 22. Finance, C.-3, 29. Fires in State forests, C.-3, 35. Forest — Engineering, C.-3, 19. Grazing, C.-3, 31. Management, C.-3, 2, 8. Protection, C.-3, 14. Sales, C.-3, 2, 35. Legislation, C.-3, 29. Mining privileges, C.-3, 31. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, C.-3, 32. Opossum trapping, C.-3, 31. Planting operations, C.-3, 2, 34. Policy, C.-3, 2. Recreation, C.-3, 31. Restoration of State forests, C.-3, 34. Silviculture, C.-3, 2, 10. Timber — Emergency Regulations, C.-3, 32. Government Timber Price Committee, 0.-3, 31. Indigenous and exotic : Glossary, C.-3, 40. Sales, C.-3, 2. Sawmilling and sash and door manufacturing, C.-3, 2, 37. Sawn timber : Imports and exports, C.-3, 36. Utilization, C.-3, 26. Timber— Control, H.-38, 12. Protection, 8.-13, 7 ; H.-34, 58. Western Samoa, A.-4, 13. FOSTER, T. V.— Report on petition of, I.—l, 2.

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND TRADE-UNIONS — Annual report — Deaths, H.-l, 4. Disposition of funds, H.-l, 13. Explanatory note of terms used in report, H.-l, 16. Friendly Societies, H.-l, 1. General, H.-l, 1. Investments at interest, H.-l, 14. Membership and funds, H.-l, 3, 8, 15. Public auditors of friendly societies : List, H.-l, 6. Receipts and expenditure— Annual returns, H.-l, 3. Medical and management funds, H.-l, 12. Sick and funeral funds, H.-l, 11. Registrations, H.-l, 1. Rules, H.-l, 2. Sickness and mortality for the year : Numerical progress, H.-l, 9. Trade-unions, H.-l, 5. Valuations completed during the year : Summary, H.-l, 7. FRUIT INDUSTRY. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ; also MARKETING. GAMING OFFENCES— Prosecutions, H.-16, 3. GAS REGULATIONS— Report, H.-44, 24. GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIBRARY Annual report, H.-32 — Accessions, H.-32. 1. Archives, H.-32, 2. Copyright, H.-32, 2. Donations, H.-32, 1. Finance, H.-32, 3. Inter-library loan, H.-32, 2. International exchange, H.-32, 2. New Zealand Library Association, H.-32, 3. Publications, H.-32, 2. Recess privileges, H.-32, 2. Staff work, H.-32, 1. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS. See under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. GLEN AFTON COLLERIES ROYAL COMMISSION— Report, C.-13. GOLDFIELDS AND MINES (see also MINING INDUSTRY)— Committee, Select: Report on Bills, &c.— Schedules of petitions held over, 1.-4, 1. Statutes Amendment Bill, 1.-4, 1. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT (see also STATE FIRE INSURANCE)— Annual report — Actuary's report on the valuation of the Department, H.-8, 6. Annual bonus distribution, H.-8, 2. Expense ratios, H.-8, 2. Income, outgoings, and accumulated funds, H.-8, 1. Investments, H.-8, 1. Now business and amount of business in force, H.-8, 1. Statement of accounts, H.-8, 3. Statement of business at end of year, H-8, 4. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Annual report for the year, H.-36. GOVERNMENT SUPERANNUATION FUNDS— Public Service— Actuarial examination, H.-26a. Annual report, H.-26. Railways, D.-5. Actuarial examination for the septennial period ended 31st March, 1939, D.-sa. Teachers, E.-l, 27 ; E.-8, E.-Ba. Actuarial examination at at 31st January, 1939, E.-Ba. GRAY, T.— Report on petition of, 1.-I, 2. GREYMOUTH HARBOUR BOARD LOAN BILL— Select Committee report on, I. —16, 1. HAMAHONA POHATU AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-3, 10.

HAMI KAATA TE AOReport on Petition of, 1.-3, 5. HAMIORA TUHAKA Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. HARBOURS. See under MARINE. HART, J. T., AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-13, 1. HAURAKI PLAINS— Drainage operations, C.-8. HEALTH— Cook Islands, A.-3, 2. Department: Annual report, H.-31 — Appendix— Control of diphtheria in a rural health district, H.-31, 50. Maori diet, H.-31, 52. Progress in prevention of typhoid fever in Maoris, H.-31, 51. Dental hygiene : Director's report— Addresses.to training-college students, H.-31, 48. Centres at which school dental clinics were established, H.-31, 48. Dental health education, 11.-31, 47. Extractions to fillings : Ratio, H.-31, 45. New treatment centres, H.-31, 46. Nurses : Dental training, H.-31, 46. Research, H.-31, 48. School dental service, H.-31, 44. Schools, Native, H.-31, 48. Staff, H.-31, 44. Statistics, H.-31, 45. Director-General's report— General — Boards associated with other Departments, H.-31, 10. Health camps, H.-31, 9. Health Education, H.-3i, 9. Medical research, H.-31, 10. Milk-in-sohools scheme, H.-31, 8. Nutrition, H.-31, 9. Overseas study tour, H.-31, 10. Infectious and other diseases, H.-31, 2. Reports of divisional directors, H.-31, 4. Social security, H.-31, 6. Vital statistics, H.-31, 1. Hospitals : Director's report— Building operations, H.-31, 25. Nursing division : Director's report — Legislation, H.-31, 31. Maternity nurses, H.-31, 30. Nurses and Midwives Registration Board, H.-31, 32. Nursing Education, H.-31, 31. Nursing service and national emergency, 11.-31, 31. Nursing staff : Health, H.-31, 31. Obstetrical nursing, H.-31, 30. Post-graduate course, H.—3l, 30, Public-hoalth-nursing activities, H.-31, 30. Private hospitals and maternal welfare— Combined Kuropean and Maori maternal mortality, H.-31, 43. Maori, H.-31, 42. Maternity hospitals and services, 11.-31, 33. Private medical and surgical hospitals, H.-31, 43. Public hygiene : Director's report — Notifiable diseases— General, H.-31, 13. In New Zealand showing distribution by— Age and sex, H.-31, 16. Months, H.-31, 14. Maoris : Notification of cases for year, H.-31, 17. Notification of cases by health districts for year, H.-31, 15. Venereal-disease clinics: Cases treated during the year, H.-31, 18. Sale of Food and Drugs Act, working of, H.-31, 18. Vital statistics — Births, H.-31, 11. Deaths, H.-31, 11. Population, H.-31. School hygiene : Director's report — Complete examinations : Summary, H.-31, 20. Dental caries, H.-31, 24. Diphtheria immunization, H.-31, 24. Health camps, H.-31, 23. Kindergartens, H.-31, 21.

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HEALTH —continued. Department: Annual report—continued. School hygiene : Director's report—continued. Medical examination of applicants for entrance into the teaching profession, H.-31, 22. Milk-distribution, H.-31, 23. Native schools, H.-31, 21. Nutrition, H.-31, 22. Sanitation and school buildings, H.-31, 24. Secondary schools, H.-31, 21. Staff, H.-31, 20. Tuberculosis, H.-31, 23. Hospitals— Mental— Annual report — Dire'ctor-General's report — Alterations, additions, and improvements, H.-7, 2. Occupational therapy, H.-7, 3. Staff, H.-7, 4. Statistical, H.-7, 1. Voluntary boarders, H.-7, 2. Finance — Average cost of each patient per annum, H.-7, 19. Debits and credits for the financial year, H.-7. 18, 19. Expenditure out of Public Works Fund on mental hospital buildings, &c., during the financial year, H.-7, 20. Expenditure, total, out of Public Works Fund for buildings and equipment at each mental hospital from Ist July, 1877, 11.-7, 20. Medical Superintendents' reports — Auckland, H.-7, 4. Christchurch, H.-7, 8. Hokitika, H.-7, 8. Kingseat, H.-7, 5. Nelson, H.-7, 7. Porirua, H.-7, 6. Seacliff, H.-7, 9. Tokanui, H.-7, 6. Nurses, H.-7, 10. Tables — Admissions, discharges, and deaths, with the mean annual mortality and proportion of recoveries per cent, of the admissions for the year, 11.-7,11. Admissions, discharges, and deaths, with the mean annual mortality and proportion of recoveries per ccnt. of the admissions for each year since 1876, H.-7, J6. Admissions, discharges, and deaths from Ist January, 1876, H.-7, 15. Admissions, re-admissions, discharges, and deaths, &c., during the year, H.-7, 11. Ages of patients, H.-7, 12. Causes of death, H.-7, 14. Length of residence of patients discharged "recovered" during the year, H.-7, 13. Native countries of patients, H.-7, 12. Principal assigned causes of insanity, 11.-7, 15. Hydatids prevention : Dogs registration, H.-22, 6. League of Nations report, A.-5, 2, 4, 7 ; A.-sa, 6. Medical services, Defence Forces, 11.-19, 5. Medical supplies : Control, 11.-38, 9. Milk in schools, H.-34, 12. Niue Island, A.-6, 3. Western Samoa, A.-4, 10. HEALTH AMENDMENT BILL — Select Committee report on, 1.-7, 1. HEENY, J., AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2. HENARE MATANUKU - Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. HENARE MATANUKU AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6. HIRE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT ACT— Report, 11.-44, 24. HIRINI WHAANGA CHRISTY— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. HIRINI WHAANGA CHRISTY AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6c, G.-6d ; 1.-3, 6. HOANI TE ANINI AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6.

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HOERA PARATENE AND OTHERS — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 5. HONE PAPUTENE AND OTHERS — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 5. HOONE P. TUKARIRI AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. HORI KAIWAI—Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6e ; 1.-3, 6. HOSPITALS. See under HEALTH. HOTELKEEPERS— Prosecutions against, H.-16, 3. HOUSING — Budget statement, 8.-6, 9. Construction, D.-l, 58. Native housing operations, G.-9, 5, 6, 9, 10 ; G.—lo, 6. Operations under Housing Act, 1919, 8.-13, 12. State Coal-mines, C.-2, 8. Surveys, C.-la, 2. HYDATIDS. See under HEALTH. HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. IMMIGRATION— Annual report, H.-11b. INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. See under LABOUR. INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES. See under LABOUR. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE, TOURIST AND PUBLICITY— Activities of the Ministry of Supply in relation to the war, H.-38. Commercial Branch— Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 8. Railways Department, D.-2, 27. Commercial road transport, H.-40, 21. Committees, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Company promotion : Lime-producing companies, H.-29b, 14. Cook Islands, A.-3, 1, 11, 21. Department: Annual report, H.-44 — Air services, H.-44, 3. Bureau of Industry, H.-44, 16. Appeals, H.-44, 18. Financial assistance to industries, H.-44, 22. Fishing industry, H.-44, 21. General, H.-44, 22. Industrial plans — Apple juice, H.-44, 21. Asbestos-cement, H.-44, 21. Bituminous roofing materials, H.-44, 22. Cigarette-papers, H .-44, 21. Dry-cell batteries, H.-44, 21. Flax, H.-44, 19. Footwear, H.-44, 22. Paper-pulp and paper produce, H.-44, 22. Pharmacy, H.-44, 20. Radio receiving-sets, H .- 44, 22. Rubber tires and tubes, H.-44, 22. Sale of motor-spirits, H.-44, 20. Soap and soap-powder, H.-44, 22. Waxed paper, H.-44, 22. Introductory, H.-44, 17. Licensing, H.-44, 18. List of members, H.-44, 17. Meetings held, H.-44, 18. New industries, H.-44, 15. Standards, H.-44, 24. Storage batteries, H.-44, 21. Chattels Transfer Act, 1924, H.-44, 24. Directory of New Zealand manufacturers, H.-44, 16. Exhibitions, overseas, H.-44, 3. Export control, H.-44, 4. Gas regulations, H.-44, 24. Hire-purchase, Agreement Act, 1939, H.-44, 24. Import control, H.-44, 8. Lime, H.-44, 25. Manufacturers' associations, H.-44, 16. Manufacturing industries : Statistics, H.-44, 9. Miscellaneous activities, H.-44, 26. Motion-picture industry, H.-44, 23. New Zealand Centennial, 14.-44, 8.

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INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE-—continued. Department: Annual report—continued. Overseas trade representation, H.-44, 3. Price control, H.-44, 4. Publications, H.-44, 26. Stores Control Board, H.-44, 16. Tobacco industry, H.-44, 25. Trade— Agreements, H.-44, 2. General trade review— Exports, H.-44, 2. Imports, H.-44, 2. War measures, H.-44, 4. Wheat, flour, and broad, H.-44, 24. Woolpacks, H.--44, 23. Imports and exports : Control, H.-38, 4. Imports : Reduction, 8.-6, 3. Leather and shoe manufacture : Research, H.-34, 3. Secondary industries : Research, H.-34. 2, 5. Statement showing values of imports and exports of the Dominion in each financial year from 193.1 to 1940, 8.-6, xvii. State trading activities : Liability for income-tax, 8.-6, 5. Stores Control Board : Annual report, H.-4. Timber— Commercial afforestation companies, C.—3, 32. Sawmilling and sash and door manufacture, C.-3, 37. Sales, &c., State forests, C.-3, 23, 33, 36. Trade and industry in Now Zealand, 8.-13, 6. Wostern Samoa, A.-4, 4, 7, 14-16. Wool-manufacturing industry : Research, H.-34, 3. INFANT-LIFE PROTECTION. See under EDUCATION. INSURANCE— Marine : Marketing Department, H.-30. 16. INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL— Select Committee report on, I.—ll, 2. INTEREST— Interest-free loans, 8.-6, 8. Interest-rates,. State Advances Corporation, 8.-13, 5. Tax on debenture interest, 8.-6, 5. INTERNAL AFFAIRS— Department— Annual report— Advertising Office, H.-22, 15. Alexander Turnbull Library, H.-22, 15. Animals Protection and Game Act, H.-22, 8. Auctioneers, H.-22, 6. Change of name, H.-22, 14. Chartered clubs, H.-22, 13. Cinematograph Films Act, H.-22, 7. Constitutional questions, IL-22, 3. Deer, goats, &c. : Destruction, H.-22, 9. Distinguished visitors, H.-22, 13. Dogs registration : Prevention of hydatid disease H.-22, 6. Emergency precautions, H.-22, 6. Explosives and dangerous goods, H.-22, 15. Film censorship, H.-22, 7. Fire Brigades Act, 11. 22, 13. Foreign Consuls, H.-22, 14. Land-agents, H.-22, 6. Local government, H. -22, 3. Maori Antiquities Act, 1908, H.-22, 14. Naturalization, H.-22, 14. New Zealand Centennial, H.- 22, 2, 3. Passports, H.-22, 14. Physical welfare and recreation, H.-22 7 Raffles, H.-22, 13. Rotorua Acclimatization District, H.-22, 10. Savage, late Right Hon. M. J., M.P., H. -22, 2. Totalizator inspections, H. -22, 14. Town-planning, H.-22, 6. War funds, H.-22, 14. War graves, H.-22, 12. King George V Memorial Fund Board : Annual report H.-25. INTERNAL MARKETING. See under MARKETING. INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE. See under LABOUR. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS— Western-Samoa, A.-4, 2. INVALIDS' BENEFIT. See under SOCIAL SECURITY.

INVERCARGIIX CITY COUNCIL TRAMWAY DEPRECIATION FUND EMPOWERING BILLSelect Committee report on, 1.-16, 2. IRRIGATION. See under PUBLIC WORKS. JOHNSTON, J. G.— Report on, petition of, 1.-l, 2. JOHNSTON MOTORS, LTD.— Report on petition of, J .—l3, 2. JUSTICE AND PRISONS— Cook Islands, A.-3, 2, 5. Niue Island, A.-0, 3. Offenders' probation : Annual report, H.-20n. Prisons — Board : Annual report, H.-20a. Department— Annual report, H.-20— Borstal institutions — Receptions, H.-20, 2. Reports of controlling officers, H.-20, 4-9. Controller-General's report— Finance : Revenue and expenditure, H.-20, 3. Health of prisoners, H.-20, 2. Institutional activities, H.-20, 3. Prison statistics, H.-20, 1. Punishments and infractions of discipline, H .-20,2. Epitome of reports of controlling officers, H.-20, 4-9. Tables— Actual number of distinct prisoners received into gaol during the year ciassifiod. according to principal offences, birthplace, and age, H.-20, Maori prisoners received, H.-20, 14. Now-Zealand-born prisoners, received into prisons during year, H.-20, 14. Number of prisoners at each prison or institution in the Dominion during the year, H.-20, 12. Particulars for each prison, of prisoners at beginning and end of year, and received and discharged during year, H.-20, 10. Prisoners : Ages and sentences, H.-20, 15. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4, 13. KAHO HEREMAIA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. KAPITI ISLAND RESERVE— Report, C.-6, 7. KARAWIA RURU AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. KAURI-GUM INDUSTRY— Annual report, C.-12. Marketing Department report, H.-30a, 13. KIHIPATARA AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. KINDERGARTENS. See under EDUCATION. KING, C. C., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-9, 2. KING GEORGE THE V MEMORIAL FUND BOARD— Annual report, H.-25. LABOUR— Department— Annua] report, H.-ll— Agricultural Workers Act, H.-11, 10. Apprentices Act, H.-11, 8. Apprentices employed in skilled trades: Return showing number, H.-11, 9. Emergency Regulations, H.-11, 12. Employment and unemployment, H.-11, 1. Factories Act— Accidents, H.-11, 2. Boys and girls in factories, H.-11, 3. Inspections, &c., H.-11, 3. Lead processes, H.-11, 3. Number of factories and number of workeis - Return, H.-11, 1. Fair Rents Act, 1936, H.-11, 11. Finance : Expenditure during the year, H.-11, 13. Footwear Regulations Act, H.-11, 11.

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LABOUR—continued. Department —continued. Annual report—continued. Industrial associations, showing the number of affiliated unions and members — Employers, H.-11, 14, 16. Workers, H.-11, 15, 25. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act — Amendments, H.-11, 7. Awards of the Court, H.-11, 5. Industrial disturbances during the year, H.-11, 7. Inspections, &c., H.-11, 6. Minimum wage-rates fixed, &c,, H.-11, 6. Registrations of industrial associations and unions, H.-l I. 7. Work performed by Commissioners and Councils of Conciliation, H.-11, 5. International Labour Office, H.-11, 12. Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, H. 11, 8. Scaffolding and Excavation Act, H.-l I, 10. Servants Registry Office Act, H. 11,11. Shearers' Accommodation Act, H.-11, 10. Share-milking Agreements Act, 1937, H. 11, 10. Shops and Offices Act— Complaints, H.-11, 4. Inspections', H.-11, 4. Prosecutions, H.-11, 4. Requisitions served, H.-11, 4. Retail hours for oil-fuel establishments, H.-l 1, 4. Shops and assistants : Number, H.-11, 4. Universal half-holiday, H.-11, 4. Wages, arrears, H.-11, 9. Weights and Measures Act, H.-11, 1 1. Workers' Compensation Act, H.-11, 9. Employment Division : Annual report, H.-11a — Administration, H.-11a, 1. Employment Promotion Fund, H.-l la, 3. Financial, H.-IIA, 2. Government Youth Centres, H.-l la, 10, 22. Promotion of employment, H.-IIA, 2. Scheme No. 4a : Assistance on own farms, H. 11a, 4. Scheme, No. 4b : Farm-lands development, H. 11a, 4. Scheme No. 4r : Farm-labour assistance plan, H.-IIA, 5. Scheme No. 13: Full-time employment with local bodies, &e., H.-11a, 6. Scheme No. 16 : Subsidized apprentices in building trades, H.—lla, 7. Scheme No. Ioa : Subsidizing of workers in industry, H.-l la, 8. State Placement Service, H.-11a, 8, 16-22. Tables, relating to, H.-l la, 12-22. Employment promotion— Maoris, G.-9, 3. Unemployed workers : Settlement, D.-l, xxiii. Unemployed benefits, H.-9, 3. Factory production : Control, H.-38, 6. Immigration Department: Annual report, H.-11b. Man power of the Dominion —Utilization: Statement by Minister, H.-l 9b. Western Samoa, A.-4, 8. LABOUR BILLS COMMITTEE, SELECT. See under COMMITTEES. LAKE WAKATIPU — Steamer services, D.-2, 17. LAND-AGENTS— Licenses issued, &c., H.-22, 6. LAND AND INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT— Report of the Commissioner of Taxes upon the administration of Part IV of the Social Security Act, 1938, for the year ended, 31st March, 1940, H.-9a. LANDS AND SURVEY— Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Development, 8.-6, 9. Drainage operations — H auraki Plains, C.-8. Rangitaiki, C.—ll. Swamp, C.-4. Improvement, D.-l, xxii, 47. Kauri-gum industry, C.-12. Public Domains and National Parks, C.-10 — National parks, C.-10, 6. Arthur Pass, C.-10, 9. Egmont, C.-10, 8. Tongariro, C.—lo, 7. Public Domains, C.-10, 1.

LANDS AND SURVEY —continued. Scenery preservation — Annual report, C.-6.- — Areas purchased, &c., C.-6, 1. Condition of reserves, &c., C.-6, 4. Expenditure for the year, C.-6, 6. Future operations, C.-6, 4. General, C.-6, 4. Gifts of scenic area, C.-6, 2. Kapiti Island Reserve, C.-6, 7. Reserves made during year under the Scenery Pre servation Act, 1908, and amendments, C.-6, 5. Revocations of reservations, C.-6, 6. Summary of reserves, C.-6, 6. Supervision of reserves, C.-6, 3. Settlement — Crown-land settlement : Annual report— Concessions granted under the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act, 1936, C.-I, 3. Educational endowment, C.-l, 24. Finance — Expenditure, C.-l, 24. Receipts, arrears, and postponements, C.-l, 7, 23, 31. Lands — AH lands hold on lease, C.-l, 29. Development, C.-l, 19. Endowment: Leased and administered by Land Boards, C.-l, 30. For selection, C.-l, 23. Selection during year, C.-l, 29. Inferior : Special settlement, C.-l, 23. Land-for-settlements, C.-l, 24, 30. Of the Dominion : Position, C.-l, 28. Protection of high and steep coxintry and bush preservation generally, C. 1, 3. Reserved for various purposes, C.-l, 24. Legislation, C.-l, 2. Reports of Commissioners of Crown Lands : Extracts from, C.-l, 25. Review of past year, C.-l, 2. Small farms, C.-l, 3-18. Discharged soldiers settlement, C.-9— Applications for land, C.-9, 2. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account, C.-9, 2. Land proclaimed, C.-9, 1. Lands, total, acquired from the Crown by discharged soldiers and held at 31st March, 1940, C.-9, 2. Land for Settlements Act, 1925 : Annual report, C.-5— Estates, private, acquired during year: Summary, C.-5, 2. Land, private, purchased, and paid for during year : Return, C.-5, 2. Land Purchase Controller : Report, C.-5, I. Land for Settlement Account for the year— Balance-sheet, C.-5, 6. Payments from, during year, C.-5, 2. Receipts and Payments Account for the year, C.-5, 3. Revenue Account for the year, C.-5, 5. Properties considered during year : Number, C.-5, 2. Native, D.-l, xxv. Small-farms schemes, D.-l, 51. Unemployed workers, D. I, xxiii. Rabbits : Extermination, H.—lla, 7. Ragwort: Eradication, H.-11a, 7. Soil erosion, State forests, C.-3, 4. Soil survey, H.-34, 41. Surveys— Aerial photographic, H.-37, 5. Annual report, C.-1a — Aerial survey mapping, C.-la, 3. Appreciation, C.-la, 3. Computing branch, C.-la, 3. Field inspections, C.-la, 3. Geodetic triangulation, C.-la, 2, 3, 11. Geographic Board, C.-la, 10. Head Office : Draughting Branch, C.-la, 4. Housing surveys, C.-la, 2. Inspection surveys, C.-la, 3. Map publications, C.-l A, 3. Native land surveys, C.-la, 2. Other work, C.-IA, 3. Plan examination and recording, C.-la, 3. Precise levelling surveys, C.-la, 2. Proposed operations, C.-la, 3. Road and railway surveys, C.-la, 3. Rural surveys, C.-la, 2. Staff, C.-la, 3. Standard surveys, C.-la, 2. Survey Board, C.-la, 10.

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LANDS AND SURYEY—continued. Surveys—continued. Annual report—continued. Tables— Areas surveyed for Lands and Survey Department, C.—la, 12. Areas surveyed for other Departments, C.-IA, 13. Field work executed, C.-l A, 11. Geodetic triangulation, C.-l A, 11. Office work, C.-la, 14. Rural and Native surveys area, C.-IA, 11. Work on hand, C.-la, 14. Topographical survey, C.-la, 2. Town and suburban surveys, C.-la, 2. Town schemes, C.-la, 3. Triangulation surveys, C.-la, 2. Warrants for title, C.-IA, 3. Defence purposes, H. 19, 4. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4, 13. LAND TRANSFER AND DEEDS REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT— Annual report—■ Arrears in the Land Transfer Department, H.-3, 5. Business transacted, H.-3, 1, 2. Compulsory registration, H.-3, 1. Deeds remaining unrecorded on the 31st December, 1939 ; received for registration and registered during the year ended 31st December, 1940, also number remaining on that date and the amount of fees collected during the same period, I I .-3, 5. Fees received under the Land Transfer Act for the year, 11.-3, 4. Money secured by mortgage under the Land Transfer Act, H.-3, 4. LEAGUE OF NATIONS— Report of the representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the twentieth assembly and the one hundred and sixth session of the Council of the League, held in the year 1939, A.-5— Administrative Tribunal— Co-operation between Advisory Committee on social questions and health organizations, A.-5, 2, 4. Finnish Government: Appeal, A.-5, 2, 5. Judge : Appointment, &c., A.-5, 2. Appeal of the Finnish Government, A.-5, 5. Development of international co-operation in economic and social affairs, A.-5, 4. Election of non-permanent members, A.-5, 4. Financial questions, A.-5, 4. Report of the representative of the Dominion of New Zealand on the one hundred and fifth session of the Council of the League held in the year 1939, A.-sa. Aaland Islands : Position, A.-sa, 3. Appointments, A.-sa, 5. Budgetry and administrative questions, A.-sa, 7. China, appeal of, A.-sa, 2. Economic Committee : Report, A.-5a., 6. Health— Committee : Report, A.-sa, 7. Nutrition, A.-sa, 6. Palestine : Position, A.-sa, 3. Signals at level crossings : Unification, A.-sa, 7. State Loan of the Kingdom of Hungary, 1924, A.-sa, 7. Traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs, A.-sa, 8. LEARY, C.— Report on petition of, 1.-12. L. H. JOHNSTON MOTORS, LTD.— Report on petition of, 1.-13, 2. LIBRARIES Alexander Turnbull: Report, H.-22, 15. Country Library Service : Annual report, H.-32a. General Assembly Library : Annual report, H.-32. Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 26. School, E.-2, 47. Scientific and Industrial Research Department, H.-34, 5. LIGHTHOUSES. See under MARINE. LIME INDUSTRY (see also AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL)— Lime Investigation Committee : Report, H.-44, 25. LIQUOR AND DRUGS— Liquor at dance-halls, &c., H.-16, 7. Traffic in opium : League of Nations report, A.-sa, 8. Western Samoa, A.-4, 9.

LOANS — Interest free, 8.-6, 8. Loan contributions, 8.-6, 8. Loan programme, 8.-6, 8, 9. London conversion, 1939 : Copy of prospectus, 8.-6, xviii. National savings, 8.-6, 7. Rural Intermediate Credit Board, 8.-14, 2. LOCAL BILLS COMMITTEE, SELECT. See under COMMITTEES. LOCAL BODIES— Full-time employment, Scheme No. 13, H.-l la, 6. General organization, &c., H.-22, 3. LOCAL LEGISLATION BILLSelect Committee report on, 1.-5, 2 ; 1.-16, 2. MAAKA RAPANA TE KAHUOTERANGI— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. MAFEKING PERE Report on petition of, 1.-3, 5. MAIL-SERVICES. See under POST AND TELEGRAPH. MAIN HIGHWAYS. See under PUBLIC WORKS. MANAAKI PIRIPI AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6b. MAN-POWER OF THE DOMINION— Utilization : Statement by Minister, H.-19b. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. See under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. MAORI AFFAIRS. See NATIVE AFFAIRS. MARINE--Department— Annual report— Accommodation, H.-15, 11. Admiralty charts, H.-15, 5. Coastal survey, H.-15, 1. Compasses : Adjustment and inspection, H.-15, 5. Finance, 11.-15, 3. Fisheries, H.-15, 11-23, 28-36. Form and colour vision, H.-15, 6. Harbour Board legislation, H.-15, 5. Harbour regulations : General, H.-15, 10. Harbours, H.-15, 2, 3, Inspection of machinery, H.-15, 7. Land engineers, engine-drivers, and electric-tram drivers, H. 15, 21, 26. Lighthouses, H.-15, 1, 4. Marine engineers. H. -15, 10, 26. Masters and mates, H.-15, 6, 27. National Security organization, planning, H.-15, 1. New Zealand Centennial exhibits, H.-15, 1, 9, 23. "New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables," H.-15, 6. New Zealand standards, H.-15, 9. Notices to mariners, H. 15, 6. Orders in Council under Parts I and 11, Fisheries Act, 1908, H.-15, 36. Prosecutions, H.-15, 11. Radio beacons, H.-15, 1. Seamen, H.-15, 6, 24, 25. Sea water : Average temperature, H.-15, 36. Shipping— Casualties, H.-15, 12, 42-46, 6, 27. Registration, H.-15, 6. Ships : Survey, H.-15, 6. Whaling, H.-15, 34. Fisheries : Report, H. 44, 21. Harbours and lighthouses: Construction, &c., D.-l, xxiv, 51. ShippingCook Islands, A.-3, 6. Freight-rates, H.-30, 16. Marketing Department, H.-30, 15, 26. MARKETING DEPARTMENTAnnual report for the year ending 31st March, 1939, H. 30— Dairy-produce Export Division— Accounts— Annual : Export Division, H.-30, 35. Completion of operations, 1937-38 season, H.-30, 3. Summary, 1936-37 and 1937-38 seasons, H.-30, 6.

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MARKETING DEPARTMENT —continued. Annual report—continued. Dairy-produce Export Division —continued. Advertising and publicity, H.-30, 27. Consumption of butter in relation to margarine, H.-30, 17. Exports of butter and cheese— To all destinations, H.-30, 10. To the United Kingdom, H.-30, 22. Freight rates, H.-30, 27. Gradings of butter and cheese, H.-30, 9, 11. Guaranteed prices, 1936-37 to 1939-40, H.-30, 7. Imports into the United Kingdom, H.-30, 17, 20, 23, 41. Inspection of shipping, H.-30, 26. London prices, H.-30, 14, 18, 45. Manufacturing-costs, H.-30, 32. Marketing in the United Kingdom, H.-30, 11. Marine insurance, H.-30, 27. Milk-production in the United Kingdom, H.-30, 20. Payouts by dairy companies, H.-30, 31. Premiums for quality, H.-30, 8. Processed milk, H.-30, 21. Production and consumption of butter in the United Kingdom, H.-30, 17. Quantities of butter and cheese purchased, H.-30, 8. Relation between manufacture of butter and cheese, H.-30, 10. Sales to markets other than the United Kingdom, H.-30, 21. Shipping, H.-30, 22. Sources of supply, H.-30, 16. Visit of Director to the United Kingdom, H.-30, 11. World trade in butter and cheese, H.-30, 44. Internal Marketing Division — Accounts, annual, H.-30, 60. Auckland branch, H.-30, 59. Barley, H.-30, 55. Bobby-calf pool operations, H.-30, 56. Dairy-produce, H.-30, 49. Eggs and egg-pulp, H.-30, 52. Fruit, H.-30, 57. Honey, H.-30, 51. Hops, H.-30, 56. Kauri-gum, H.-30, 57. Maize, H.-30, 55. Onions, H.-30, 56. Potatoes, H.-30, 53. Trading branch, Thorndon, H.-30, 59. Annual report for the year ended 31st March, 1940 — Export Division — Accounts, H.-30, 36, 42. Agriculture and Marketing Departments : Co-operation in regard to production and preparation of products for Export, H.-30, 4. Co-operation of boards and organizations with Marketing Department, H.-30, 35. Extension of scope of Export Division consequent on outbreak of war, H.-30, 3. Food and other supplies to the United Kingdom during the war, H.-30, 3. London organization: Change consequent on outbreak of war, H.-30, 5. Marketing Board Act, 1939, H.-30, 4. Reports — Dairy-produce, H.-30, 5. Fruit, H.-30, 32. Hides, H.-30, 30. Meat, H.-30, 18. Scheelite, H.-30, 34. Tallow, H.-30, 27. Wool, H.-30, 23. Woolly sheep-skins, H.-30, 29. Internal Marketing Division — Accounts, H.-30a, 17. ' Apples and pears, H.-30a, 10. Auckland Branch, H.-30a, 16. Barley, H.-30a, 9. Bobby-calf pools, H.-30a, 6. Butter, H.~30a, 1. Canteen section, H.-30a, 13. Cheese, H.-30a, 5. Christchurch Branch, H.-30a, 16. Eggs and egg-pulp, H.-30a, 6. Food control, H.-30a, 14. Honey, H.-30a, 11. Hops, H.-30a, 12. Imported fruit section, H.-30a, 7. Kauri-gum, H.-30a, 13. Maize, H.-30a, 10.

MARKETING DEPARTMENT —continued. Annual report —continued. Internal Marketing Division —continued. Onions, H.~30a, 10. Purchasing section, H. —30a, 14. Thorndon Branch, H.-30a, 15. Food and other supplies to the -United Kingdom during the war : Statement by Minister of Marketing, H.-30b. Foodstuffs, control, H.-38, 8. MARSHALL, F. G.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. MARTIN, N. L., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. MASON, J.— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. MATERNAL WELFARE. See under HEALTH. MATICH, M — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 10. METEOROLOGICAL (see also under SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH)— Cook Islands, A.-3, 6. Niue Island, A.-6, 4. MENTAL HOSPITALS. See under HEALTH. MILITARY FORCES. See under DEFENCE. MINING INDUSTRY— Annual Mines Statement, C.-2.— Appendices : Report relating to— Inspection of coal-mines, C.-2, 41-65. Metalliferous mines and stone-quarries, C.-2, 17-40. Report of Board of Examiners, C.-2, 06-67. Carbonizing and briquetting, C.-2, 6. Coal-miners' Relief Fund, C.-2, 9, 10. Coal-mining, C.-2, 3, 4. Coal-mining legislation, C.-2, 2. Co-operative mining, State Coal Reserve, C.-2, 4. Geological survey, C.-2, 8. Gold and silver mining, C.-2, 1, 2. Goldfields revenue and gold duty, C.-2, 2, 3. Laboratory investigations, C.-2, 7. Miners' benefits, C.-2, 9. Mining legislation, C.-2, 2. Mining privileges, C.-2, 3. New avenues of coal-utilization, C.-2, 6. Petroleum, oil, C.-2, 3. Rescue stations, C.-2, 6. School of Mines, C.-2, 9. Social amenities in mining townships, C.-2, 6. State aid to mining, C.-2, 10. Government prospecting drills, C.-2, 10. Roads and tracks, C.-2, 10. School of Mines, C.-2, 10. Subsidized prospecting, C.-2, 10. State coal-mines, C.-2, 4-6 — Housing, C.-2, 8. Items from balance-sheet, C.-2, 5. Output and sales, C.-2, 4, 5. Statistics — Coal-mining, C.-2, 4. Gold and silver mining, C.-2, 2. Mineral production, C.-2, 1. Mining and quarry accidents, C.-2, 8. Persons employed in or about mines and stone-quarries, C.-2, 7. Wastage of coal, C.-2, 6. Tables— CoalExports, bunker and cargo, C.-2, 15. Imports, C.-2, 15. Output from different fields, C.-2, 13. Output of different classes, C.-2, 13. Coal and oil-shale: Annual production and coal imported since 1878, C.-2, 14. Export of minerals and coal-output, C.-2, 11. GoldQuantity and value exported from districts and counties or boroughs, C.-2, il2. Quantity of gold exported annually from 1857, C.-2, 13. Persons employed in mining, C.-2, 16.

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MINING INDUSTRY —continued. Coal— Coal resources : Survey, H.-34, 3. Coal-supplies, Railways Department, D.-2, 22. Glen Afton Collieries Royal Commission, C.-13. State Mines : Annual report, C.-2a — James Colliery, C.-2a, 3. Liverpool Colliery, 0.- 2a, 1. Statement of accounts, &c., C.-2a, 6. Strongman Colliery, C.-2a, 4. Miners' Benefit, social security, H.-9, 3. Mining control, 11. -38, JO. MOKAU HARBOUR BILL — Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 3 ; 1.—16, 2. MORPETH, W. T.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY— Film censorship, H.-22, 7. Film and advertising studios, Tourist and Health Resorts and Publicity, H.-2, 3. Operators : Licensing, H .-22, 8. Report, H.-44, 23. MOTOR-VEHICLES. See under TRANSPORT. MOYLE, J. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 2. MUSIC— Broadcasting, F.-3, 3. MUSICK MEMORIAL AERADIO STATION— Report, F.-l, 18. NATIONAL ART GALLERY AND DOMINION MUSEUM— Report of the Board'of Trustees for the year, H.-21 — Board of Trustees, H.-21, 1, 2. Committees of Management, H.-21, 1— Carillon: Annual report, H.-21, 11. Dominion Museum : Annual report, H.-21, 6. National Art Gallery : Annual report, H.-21,. 3. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Board : Treasurer's report, 11. -21- 11. NATIONAL PARKS. See under LANDS. NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FUND— Donations received, H.-22a, 2. NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND Annual report, H.-17. NATIONAL SAVINGS LOANS— Budget statement, 8.-6, 7. NATIONAL SECURITY. See also DEFENCE— Broadcasting control, F.-3, 0. Tax : Budget statement, 8.-6, 7. NATIONAL WAR FUNDS— Assets, H.-22, 14. NATIVE AFFAIRS Board of Native Affairs : Report, G.-10 — East Coast Native Trust Lands, G.-10, 54. General report, G.-10, 3. Maori Land Board and Native Trust activities, G.-10, 50. Native housing operations, (4.-10, 6. State development schemes, G.-10, 9. Committee, Select. See under COMMITTEES. Department: Annual report, G.-9 — Alienations of Native land, G.-9, 4, 11. Board of Native Affairs, G.-9, 2. Chief Judge, retirement G.-9, 2. 'District roports, G.-9, 5. Expenditure from Consolidation Fund, G,-9, 4. Finance, G.-9, 3. General report, G.-9, 1. Legislation, G.-9, 4. Maori Land Boards, G.-9, 2. Native Land Court business for the year : Return, G.-9, 11. Native Land Courts, G.-9, 3. Native Trustee, G.-9, 3. Promotion of employment amongst Maoris, G.-9, 3. Savage, late Right Hon. M. J., M.P. : Tribute, G.-9, 1. Education—■ Minister's report, E.-l, 21. Native children : Report, E.-3.

NATIVE AFFAIRS —continued. Health, 11.-31, 5, 21, 42, 48, 51, 52. Lands— East Coast Native Trust lands, G.-3, G.-4. Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 10. Settlement, D.-l, xxv. Surveys, C.-la, 2, 11. Maori Antiquities Act, 11.- 22, 14. Maori Purposes, Fund Board, G.-ll— For the year 31st March, 1939 — Estimates for 1939-40 (inclusive of grants), G.-11, I. Fund, G.-11, I. Operations, G.-l 1,1. For the year ended 31st March, 1940 — Balneavis, late Mr. H. R. H. : Tribute, G.-11, 2. Carnegie Corporation of New York : Grant, G.-11, 4. Estimates, 1940-41, G.-11, 3. Fund, G.-11, 2. General, G.-11, 4. Meetings, G. 11,2. Members, G.-11, 2. Operations, G. 11, 3. Savage, late Right Hon, M. J., M.l>. : Tribute, G.-11, 2. Maori War benefits, H.-9, 3. Native Purposes Act: Report and recommendation on petition of— Henare Matanuku and others, G.-6. Hirini Wliaanga Christy and others, G.-6e, G.-6u. Hon Kaiwai, G.-Sx. Manaaki Piripi and others, G.-60. Rihitoto Mataia and others, G.-6a. Niuc Island, A.-6, 2. Western Samoa, A.-4, 8. NATIVE PURPOSES BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-3, 8. NAURU AND OCEAN ISLANDS PHOSPHATES Report of New Zealand Commissioner, 11 .-29, 44. NEW ZEALAND CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION— Participation by— Agriculture Department, H.-29, 42. Air Department, H.-37, 15. Broadcasting Services, F.-3, 8. Education Department, E.-2, 7, 9. Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 8. Internal Affairs Department, H.-22, 2. Maoris, G.-9, 2. Marine Department, H.-15, 1, 9, 23. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, H.-21, 2, 3. Navy, H.-5, 7. Police Department, H.-16, 7. Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 10, 19. Railways Department, D.-2, 28, 32. State Forest Service, C.-3, 32. Tourist and Health Resorts and Publicity Department, H.-2, 2. NEW ZEALAND NAVAL FORCES. See under DEFENCE. NEW ZEALAND ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL— Report, H.-40, 11. NEW ZEALAND STANDARDS INSTITUTE— Annual report, H.-44a. NIUE ISLAND ADMINISTRATION— Report of, for the year, A.-6 — Agriculture, A.-6, 3. Education, A.-6, 3. Finance, A.-6, 1, 4. High Court and Native Land Court, A.-6, 3. Island Council, A.-6, 3. Medical and public health, A.-6, 3. Meteorological, A.-6, 4. Native Affairs, A.-6. 2. Public works and transport, A.-6, 3. Trade, A.-6, 1. Visits, A.-6, 1. Vital statistics, A.-6, 4. Wireless, A.-6, 3. NURSES. See under HEALTH. O'BRIEN, L. W.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. OFFENDERS' PROBATION. See under JUSTICE AND PRISONS.

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OIL-FUEL. See PETROL. OPIUM — Traffic in : League of Nations report, A.--sa, S. OPOSSUMSTrapping, C.-3, 31. OVERTON, W. H., AND OTHERS Report on petition of, I. 2, 2. PALESTINE Position : League of Nations report, A.-sa, 8. PARI NGARANGI KATITIA AND OTHERS — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 5. PARLIAMENT— Broadcasting, F.-3, 4. PASSPORTS— Issued, &c., H.-22, 14. PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS— Annual Report, H.-40 — Designs, H.-10, 2. General, H.-10, 3. Patents, H.-IQ, 1. Patent Agents, H.-10, 3. Tables, H.-10, 4-10. Trade-marks, H.-10, 3. Trend of invention, H.-10, 2. PATRIOTIC PURPOSES EMERGENCY REGULATIONS 1939Report, H.-22a. PEHI KURU AWATERE AND OTHERS - Report on petition of, 1.—3, 9. PENSIONS. See SOCIAL SECURITY. PETROL— Consumption, II .--10, 3, 6. Oil-fuel control, H.-38, 11. Prices : Fixation, H.-44, 23. Production, C.-2, 3. Rationing, F.-l, 15. Regulations relating to, H.-40, 24. Sale of, H.-44, 20. PHARMACY. See under INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. PHYSICAL WELFARE AND RECREATION— Activities, &c., H.-22, 7. POLICE Cook Islands, A.-3, 5. Department : Annual report— Arms Bureau, H.-16, 5. Commissioners' Conference, Brisbane, H.-16, 7. Criminal Registration Branch, H. 16, 4. Criminal statistics, H.-16, 1. Drunkenness, H.-16, 3. Efficiency, 11. 1(>, 6. Gaming offences, H.-16, 3. Growth of Department, H.-16, 4. Liquor at dance-halls, &c.., H.-16, 7. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, H.-16, 7. \ Number of offences reported, the number of offences for which persons wore apprehended or summoned, and comparison of crime during the year with previous year : Return, H.-16, 14. Police buildings, &c., H.-16, 6. > Proportion of Police Force to population and cost per inhabitant in various countries, H. 1.6, 20. Prosecutions, H.-16, 3, 4. Against hotelkeepers, H.-16, 3. Reports (extracts! of officers in charge of districts, H.-16, 8. Serious crimes, H. 16, 2. Stations, H.-16, 1. Strength of Force, H.-16, 1, 18. Sly-grog selling, H.-16, 3. Training Depot, H.-16, 7. Women police, H.-16, 7. Western Samoa, A.-4, 2, 13.

POST AND TELEGRAPH- - Cook Islands, A.-3, 5. Department— Annual report- — Buildings and land, F.-l, 9. Cable messages : Number and value, F.-l, 26. Cables, New Zealand submarine : Cook Strait cables, F.-l, 17. Censorship, F.-l, 10. Centennial ExhibitionDepartmental office and exhibits, F.-l, 10. Postage-stamp issue, F.-l, 12. Telephone arrangements, F.-l, 19. Commercial branch, F.-l, 5, 8. Correspondence schools : Reopening, F.-l, 8. Dead-letter office, F.-l, 13. Examinations, F.-l, 7. Finance — Operations, F.-l, 3, 5, 21. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 5, 21. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 14, 23, 24. Letters of credit, F.-l, 14. School savings-branch, F.-l, 14. Health stamps, F.-l, 12. Mail-services— Air, F.-l, 4, 11, 12, 18. Inland, F.-l, 11. Ocean, F.-l, 4, 11, 12. Money-orders, F.-l, 14, 21, 22. Motor-spirits, &c. : Rationing, F.-l , 15. Motor-vehicles— Departmental, F.-l, 9. Purchases, F.-l, 9. Registration, F.-l, 15. Parcel-post— Cardboard containers for " fragile " parcels, F.-l, 13 Overseas, volume, F.-l, 22. Poles : Use of New Zealand timber, F.-l, 19. Postage-rates, increase, F.-l, 11. Postal articles posted and delivered, F.-l, 26. Postage-stamps, F.-l, 12. Postal-notes, F.-l, 14. Postal-orders, British, F.-l, 4. Postmaster-General: Appointment, F.-l, 4. Post Office investment certificates, F.-l, 14. Promotion Board election, F.-l, 8. Radio-broadcasting— Reception : Interference, F.-l, 20. Amateur-radio transmitting stations, F.-l, 20. Broadcasts, publication, F.-l, 20. Radio licenses, F.-l, 20, 25. Radio Division : Establishment, F.-l, 7. Radio telegraph and telephone services, F.-l, 18, 26. Reception : Interference, F.-l, 20. Savage, Right Hon. M. J., M.P. : Death, F.-l, 10. Social Security work, F.-l, 14. Staff — Appeal Board, F.-l, 8. Coinmitteo of Inquiry, F.-l, 6. Effect of war, F.-l, 6. Health, F.-l, 6. Number, F.-l, 5. Personal, F.-l, 5. Post and Telegraph Officers' Sick Benefit Fund F.-l, 8. Reporting system, F.-l, 6. Retirements, &c., F.-l, 7. Training, F.-l, 7. Stamp printing : Control by Department, F.-l, 13. Stores Branch, F.-l, 9. Suggestions Board, F.-l, 8. Telegraph and telephones— Automatic-telephone exchange equipment, now, F.-l, 19. Carrier-current telephone systems, F.-l, 17. Centennial Exhibition : Telephone arrangements, F.-l, 19. Christchurch rating system, F.-l, 18. Decorative telegram stationery, F.-l, 16. Empire Press rates, reduction, F.-l, 16. Lower Hutt Auxiliary Manual Exchange, F.-l, 19. Machine-printing apparatus: Installation, F.-l, 16. Multi-channel systems (carrier and voice-frequencv), F.-l, 16, 17. Overseas letter-telegram service, F.-l, 16. Public call offices, F.-l, 19, 25. Rates, increase, F.-l, 16, 17. Telegrams to soldiers on active service, F.-l, 16. Telegraph Engineers' Office at New Plymouth and Timaru : Closing, F.-l, 8.

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POST AND TELEGRAPH —continued. Department —continued. Annual report—continued. Telegraph and Telephones—continued. Telegraph Training School scheme: Extension, F.-l, 7. Telephone connections, classification, F.-l, 18, 23. Telephone directories, F.-l, 27. Telephone exchanges : Services, &c., F.-l, 19. Telephone development, F.-l, 18, 25. Toll service, F.-l, 17. War — Amateur radio-transmitting licenses : Revocation, F.-l, 20. Censorship, F.-l, 10. Concessions for men on war service, F.-l, 3, 0, 11, 16. Effect on— Air and ocean mails, F.-l, 11, 12. Staff, F.-l, 6. Enlistment of officers, F.-l, 6. Military allotment warrants, F.-l, 15. Motor-spirits, &c. : Rationing, F.-l, 15. Post-office Patriotic Fund, F.-l, 10. Rates and charges: Increase, F.-l, 11, 16, 17. Work for other departments, F.-l, 14. Workshops, F.-l, 9. Telegraph extension, 8.-6, 9 ; D.-l, xxi. Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. PRESS Empire press rates : Reduction, F.-l, 16. PRICES — Agricultural lime, H.-29b, 7. Control, H.-38, 16 ; 11.-44, 4. Government Timber Price Committee, C.-3, 31. Motor-spirits : Fixation, H.-44, 23. Superphosphates, H.-29, 1. PRINTING AND STATIONERY DEPARTMENT— Annual report for the year, H.-36. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - Abstract of the revenue and expenditure of the Public Accounts of New Zealand for the year, 8.-l [Pt. I] — Abstract of Public Accounts— Receipts and Expenditure— Consolidated Fund— Deposits Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 8. General Purposes Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 10. Ordinary Revenue Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 4. Other Accounts— Bank of New Zealand Shares Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 12. Employment Promotion Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I], 14. Land for Settlement Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 14. Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 16. Main Highways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 18. Public Account Cash Balance Investment Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 28. Public Debt Repayment Account, B. I [ft. I], 20. Remittances to London Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 20. Reserve Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 20. Social Security Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I], 22. State Coal-mines Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 22. State Coal-mines Sinking Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 24. State Forests Accounts, 8.-l [Pt. I], 24. Summary of balances, 8.-l [Pt. I], 30. War Expenses Account, 8.-l [Pt. IJ, 26. Working Railways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 28. Public Works Fund — Electric Supply Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 12. Electric Supply Sinking Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 12. Civil List Act, 1920, 8.-l [Pt. I], 36. Issues compared with the sums voted under Appropriation Act, 1939, 8.-l [Pt. I], 31. Summary of certified statements of liabilities, 8.-l [Pt. I], 43 Unauthorized Expenditure Account— Broadcasting Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Consolidated Fund : Ordinary Revenue Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 38. Dairy Industry Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Government Insurance Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Housing Account, 8.-I [Pt. I], 42. Internal Marketing Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Meat Industry Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Abstract of the revenue, &c.—continued. Unauthorized Expenditure Account—continued. Native Trustees Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Post Office Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 40. Public Service Superannuation Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Public Trust Office Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Public Works Fund: General Purposes Account , 8.-l [Pt. I], 39. Social Security Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I], 40. State Coal-mines Account, B-l [Pt. I], 40. State Forest Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 40. Statement of surplus credit-in-aid applied in terms of section 51 (3) of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, 8.-l [Pt. I], 42. Summary, 8.-l [Pt. I], 42. Sundry Products Accounts, 8.-l [Pt. I], 41. Wool Industry Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 42. Working Railways Account, 8.-l [Pt. I], 40. Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1939-40, audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV] — AgricultureNauru and Ocean Islands Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 5. Orchard Tax Act, 1927, Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 60. Arawa District Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 69. Audit Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 6. Bank of New Zealand Shares Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 55. British Phosphate Commissioners, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 5. Census and Statistics Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 7. Crown Law Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 26. Customs Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 8. Dairy Industry Loans, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 47. Electoral, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 58. Electric Supply Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 9. Explanatory Memorandum, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 3. External Affairs Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 59. General Purposes Relief Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 52. Government Fire Insurance Fund, 8.-l [Pt. I V], 53. Government Life Insurance Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 15. Government Stores Marine Insurance Fund, 8.-l. [Pt. IV], 57. Hauraki Plains Settlement Scheme, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 23 Housing Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 16. Labour Department— Employment Division, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 64. Immigration, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 62. Industrial Division, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 63. Land and Deeds Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 27. Lands and Survey Department— Gore High School Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 24. North Island Experimental Dairy School Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 24. Taranaki Scholarship Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 25. Legislative, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 54. Main Highways Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV] 28. Marine Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 65. Mental Hospitals Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 30. Mining Advances Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 76. National Broadcasting Service, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 33. National Commercial Broadcasting Service, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 32. National Provident Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 34. National Provident and Friendly Societies Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 40. Native Department — Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 72. Maori Purposes Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 73. Police Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 19. Printing and Stationery Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 37. Public Debt Redemption Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 55. Public Service Commissioner's Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 6. Public Service Superannuation Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 41. Public. Trust Office, 8.-I [Pt. IV], 48. Railways, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 43. Railways Superannuation Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 50. Rangitaiki Land Drainage Scheme, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 20. Repatriation, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 48. Reserve Bank of New Zealand (see parliamentary paper 8.-16, page 7). Reserve Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 27. Samoan Loans Suspense and Sinking Fund Accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 58. Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 61.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1939-40, audited accounts 8.-l [Pt. IV] —continued. Stamp Duties Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 47. State Advances Corporation of New Zealand (see parliamentary paper 8.-13, page 11). State Coal-mines Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 45. State Fire Insurance Office, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 36. State Fire Insurance Office —Accident Branch, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 35. Swamp Land Drainage Schemes, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 21. Teachers' Superannuation Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 52. Transport Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 75. Treasury Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 56. Valuation Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 39. Westport Harbour Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], 4. Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1938-39, audited accounts, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939 — Administration of Western Samoa, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 4. Agriculture Department—Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV] Sup. to 1939, 6. Air Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 114. Army Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 14. Crown Lands Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 18. Dairy Industry Loans, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 21. Education, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 22. Electoral, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 33. Ellesmere and Forsyth and Akaroa Railway Trust Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 116. Employment Promotion Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 34. External Affairs Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 35. General Purposes Relief Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 36. Government Stores Marine Insurance Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 37. Health Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 38. Howard Estate, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 100. Industries and Commerce Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 101. Internal Affairs Department, 8.-I [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939. 45. Iron and Steel Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 48. Justice and Prisons Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 49. Land and Income Tax Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 58. Land for Settlements Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 59. Lands and Survey Department— Auckland Museum Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 71. Geraldine County River Board Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 65. | Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 77. Greymouth Technical and Hokjtika High Schools Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 66. Hunter Soldiers' Assistance Trust Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 67. National Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 72. Primary Education Endowment Deposit Account, 8.-l [£t. IV],. Sup. to 1939, 74. Secondary Education Endowment Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 76. Victoria College Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 68. Wairoa Harbour Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 68. Wanganui Harbour Endowment Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 69. Wanganui Blver Trust Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 70. Marketing Department— Internal Marketing Division, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 138. Export Division, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 132. Mines Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 78. Mining Advances Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 80. Miscellaneous Advances from Consolidated Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 80. Native Department— Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 81. District Maori Land Boards, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 141.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS —continued. Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1938-39, audited accounts 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939—contd. Native Department—continued. Maori Purposes Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 83. Native Housing, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 147. Native Land Development Schemes, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 85. Special Housing, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 111. Native Trustee, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 86. Navy Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 87. New Zealand Reparation Estates, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, .112. Pensions Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Snp. to 1939, 88. Post and Telegraph Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 128. Prime Minister's Department, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 90. Public Debt Redemption Fund, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 91. Public Works Department: Departmental, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 116. Reserve Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup to 1939, 91. Samoan Loan Suspense and Sinking Fund Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 92. Scenic Reserves Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 92. Small Farms Scheme, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 93. State Forest Service, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 94. Surveys of Native Land, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 98. Taranaki Maori Trust Board, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 108. Treasury : Investment in State Advances Corporation Account, 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 99. Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939, 125. Controller and Auditor-General's report, 8.-l [Pt. II] — Auditor-Generals' report, 8.-l [Pt. ll], iii. Deposit Account — Receipts and disbursements under the Trustee Act, 1908, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 24. Summary of Deposit Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 23. Detail statement of revenue— Ordinary revenue, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 2. Ordinary revenue, interest on Public Debt Redemption Fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 6. Ordinary revenue, interest on other public moneys, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 6. Ordinary revenuo, miscellaneous revenue, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 8. Detail statement of transactions — Employment Promotion Fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 26. Land for Settlements Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 27. Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 29. Public Works Fund (Electric Supply Account), 8.-l [Pt. ll], 26. State Forests Account, 8.-I [Pt. ll], 36. State Coal-mines Account, B.- l [Pt. ll], 35. Temporary transfer under section 40 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 36. Disbursements under Civil List Act, 1920 (see 8.-J [Pt. I]). Disbursements under Rural Intermediate Credit Act, 1927, section 16, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 22. Disbursements under special Acts — Debt services, administration and management, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 15. Debt services, amortization of debt— Repayment of the Public Debt Act, 1925, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 15. Sinking fund, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 15. Transfer to Loans Redemption Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll|, 15. Debt services, interest, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 13. Debt services, payment on guaranteed loans, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 16. Other services, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 17. Imprests of the Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account.) outstanding, B. -l [Pt. ll], 22. Imprests of the Public Works Fund (General Purposes Account) outstanding, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. Interest, Conversion and Redemption Remittance Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 1. Recoveries on account of expenditure of previous years — Consolidated Fund (Ordinary Revenue Account), 8.-I [Pt. ll], 11. Land for Settlements Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. Main Highways Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 35. Public Works Fund : General Purposes Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 25. State Coal-mines Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 35.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS—continued. Balance-sheets and Statements of Accounts of various Government Departments for the year 1938-39, audited accounts 8.-l [Pt. IV], Sup. to 1939—contd. Recoveries on acconnt of expenditure—continued. State Forests Account, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 36. Schedule of imperfect vouchers, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xviii. Statement of balances in respect of payments made on behalf of other Governments, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 22. Statement of irregularities in connection with public moneys and stores, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xiv. Statement showing sums irrecoverable by the Crown, 8.-l [Pt. ll], xxi. Statement showing the public debt of the Dominion for the year, 8.-l [Pt. Ill], PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION— Study, H.-14, 5. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. See under PUBLIC WORKS. PUBLIC DOMAINS. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. PUBLIC HYGIENE. See under HEALTH. PUBLIC HEALTH (see also HEALTH)— Committee, Select: Report on Bills, &c.- — Health Amendment Bill, 1.-7, I. PUBLICITY. See alio TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS AND PUBLICITY— Publicity and adult education, Transport Department, H.-40, 10. PUBLIC PETITIONS. See under COMMITTEES. PUBLIC SERVICE— Commissioners : Annual report— Administrative changes, H.-14, 11. Amendments to the General Regulations, H.-14, 11. Board of Appeal, H.-14, 11. Classification, H.-14, 12, 14. Departmental examinations, H.--14, 10. Efficiency, H.-14, 4. Efficiency tests for General Division officers, H.-14, 8. Esson, late Colonel J. J., C.M.G., V.D., H.-14, 10. Examination for shorthand-typists, H.-14, 10. Mechanical office appliances, H.-14, 5. Officers— Depression juniors, H.-14, 8. Offences, H.-14, 11. Public servants with the Defence Forces, H.-14, 2. Record Clerks, training, H.-14, 7. War casualties, H.-14, 12. Problems brought by, during the war, H.-14, 1. Recruitment to the Public Service, H.-14, 6. Salaries, H.-14, 15. Savage, late Right Hon. M. J., M.P., H.-14, 3. Statistical tables, H.-14, 12. Study of public administration, H.-14, 5. Temporary employees, H.-14, 17. Superannuation— Board : Annual report, H.-26. Fund : Actuarial examination, H.-26a. PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE— Accounts of, for the year, 8.-9 a. Annual report for the year ended 31st March, 1937— Minister's statement— Enemy Property Emergency Regulations 1939, 8.-9, 2. New business, 8.-9, 1. Result of year's working, 8.-9, 2. > Value of estates, 8.-9, 1. Wills on deposit, 8.-9, 1. Public Trustee's report — Administration of estates and kindred matters, 8.-9, 3. Enemy Property Emergency Regulations 1939, 8.-9, 4. Finance, 8.-9, 6. Investments from the Common Fund, 8.-9, 5. Staff, 8.-9, 6. PUBLIC WORKS - Annual statement, D.-l — Chief Electrical Engineer : Annual report— Electrical wiremen : Registration, D.-l, 80. Generating-schemes in operation— Design office, D.-l, 81. North Island electric-power system, D.-I, 64, 83. South Island electric-power system, D.-l, 75, 83.

PUBLIC WORKS—continued. Annual statement, D.-l —continued. Engineer-in-Chief : Annua) report— Aerodromes, landing-grounds, and air-route facilities : Establishment, D.-l, 53. Construction and improvement of roads and bridges, D.-l, 33. Harbour-works, D.-l, 51. Housing construction, D.-l, 58. Hydro-electric development, D.-l, 32. Improvements to school-sites, D.-l, 51. Irrigation, D.-l, 29. Lands-improvement, D.-l, 47. Naval and Defence works, D.-l, 57. Plant and mechanical equipment, D.-l, 51. Public buildings, D.-l, 58. Railways, D.-i, 22. Small-farms scheme, D.-l, 51. Tramways, D.-l, 58. Finance— Annual, main highways accounts, D.-l, 106. Electric Supply Accounts, D.-l, 12, 14, 16, 83. Expenditure and liabilities on public buildings out of Public Works Fund, D.-l, 11. Expenditure for the year: Audited statement of expenditure out of Public Works Fund for the year, D.-I, 20. Expenditure on railways, D.-l, 8. Total expenditure : Summary showing total expenditure out of Public Works Fund, D.-l, 1. Yearly expenditure out of Public Works Fund (General Purposes Account), 1918-19 to 1939-40, D.-l, 2. Government Architect: Annual report on buildings, &c., D.-l, 59. Main Highways Board : Annual report* — Construction, D.-l, 90, 91. Contact with local bodies and automobile associations, D.-l, 102. Declarations and revocations of main highways, D.-l, 103. Finance, D.-l, 87, 106. Flood damage, D.-l, 90. Foremen and overseers of road construction : Examination, D.-l, 103. General, D.-l, 86. Highways materials, testing of, D.-l, 103. Legislation, D.-l, 86. Lengths of main highways, D.-l, 109. Level railway-crossings : Elimination, D.-l, 101. Lighting on main highways, D.-l, 102. Local Authorities : Advances, D.-l, 102. Magnetic truck, D.-l, J 03. Maintenance, D.-l, 89, 90. Mileage of main highways metalled and surfaced since inception of Board's operations (9th June, 1924), D.-l, 92. Personnel, D.-l, 86. Plant, D.-l, 102. Residential accommodation for regular surfacemen, D.-l, 102. Road-safety measures, D.-I, 102. Sign-posting, centre-line marking, &c., D.-l, 102. Standard specifications, D.-l, 103. State-highways, D.-l, 101, 102. Minister's report— Aerodromes and subsidiary services : Establishment, D.-I, xx. Education buildings, D.-l, xix. Finance— Expenditure, Public Works Fund, D.-l, vi. Receipts, Public Works Department, D.-l, vii. Votes under control of Minister of Public Works : Summary, D.-l, viii. Harbour-works and lighthouses, D.-l, xxiv. Hydro-electric development, D.-l, x. Irrigation and water-supply, D.-l, xvi. Land-improvement, D.-l, xxii. Main highways, D.-l, ix. Native-land settlement, D.-l, xxv. Plant and mechanical equipment, D.-l, xxiv. Public buildings, D.-l, xvi. Railway-construction, D.-l, xii. Settlement and other roads, D.-l, xv. Settlement of unemployed workers, D.-l, xxiii. Swamp-land drainage, D.-l, xxiv. Telegraph extensions, D.-l, xxi. Tourist and health resorts, D.-l, xxii, Budget statement, 8.-6, 8. Cook Islands, A.-3, 4. Estimates, 8.-7 a,

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PUBLIC WORKS —continued. Fund— Statement showing net expenditure, &c., for the year, 8.-6, vii. Statement showing total ways and means, &c., 8.-6, xi. Hydro-electricity— Control, H.-38, 5. Development, 8.-6, 9. Harbour-works, H.-15, 3. Main highways and roads— Budget statement, 8.-6, 0. Roads, streets, and bridges : Total expenditure for year 1938-39, H.-40, 3. Road surveys, C.-IA, 3. Niue Island, A.-6, 3. Public buildings— Budget statement, 8.-6, 9. Construction, F.-l, 9 ; H.-16, 6 ; H.-19, 6. Western Samoa, A.-4, 13. RADIO. See BROADCASTING ; also under POST AND TELEGRAPH. RAFFLES AND ART UNIONS — Licenses, &c., H.-22, 13. RAILWAYS— Annual statement, D.-2— Balance-sheets and statements of accounts and statistical returns, 1936, D.-2, 33-63. General Manager's report — Advertising service, D.-2, 18. Bookstall service, D.-2, 18. Branch lines, D.-2, 21. Centenary of the Dominion, D.-2, 32. Coal-supplies, D.-2, 22. Commercial Branch, D.-2, 27. Departmental dwellings, D.-2, 19. Finance, D.-2, 8, 14, 16, 19. Forestry Branch, D.-2, 22. Goods and live-stock, D.-2, 12, 13. Isolated sections, D.-2, 21. Lake Wakatipu steamers, D.-2, 17. Locomotive transportation, D.-2, 16. Parcels, luggage, and mails, D.-2, 12. Passenger traffic, D.-2, 10. Publicity, D.-2, 27. Rail-car services, D.-2, 20. Refreshment service, D.-2, 17. Road passenger and goods services, D.-2, 19. Rolling-stock, D.-2, 15, 16, 32. Sick Benefit Fund, D.-2, 20. Signal and electrical, D.-2, 15, 30. Staff, D.-2, 32. Stores Branch, D.-2, 21. Subsidiary services, D.-2, 17. Suggestions and Inventions Committee, D.-2, 23. Timber, supplies, D.-2, 22. Track, plant, and rolling-stock, D.-2, 32. Traffic transportation, D.-2, 16. Transportation, D.-2, 24. War conditions, D.-2, 32. Ways and works, D.-2, 15, 29. Workshops, D.-2, 23. Minister's report — Co-ordination of road and rail services, D.-2, 4. Executive personnel, D.-2, 6. Finance, D.-2, 1. Improvements, D.-2, 2, 4. New lines operned, D.-2, 6. Passenger traffic, D.-2, 2. Rolling-stock, D.-2, 2. Signal, communications, and electrical power developments, D.-2, 3. Standard of service, D.-2, 4. Working results, past five years, D.-2, 7. Workshops, D.-2, 3. Construction, 8.-6, 8 ; D.-l, xii. Improvements and additions to open lines, 1).-1, xiv. Government Railways Superannuation l f unds— Actuarial examination for the septennial period ended 31st March, 1939, D.-sa. Annual report, D.-5. Surveys, C.-la, 3. RANGIRERE TE MAERAE — Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. RANGITAIKI LAND DRAINAGE— Annual report, 0.-11. RANG I TUANUI TAMIHANA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8.

RAWIRI RAROA PUHIPUHI AND OTHERS - Report on petition of, 1.-3, 6. READ, L. A.— Report on petition of, 1.-10, 1. RECESS DEFENCE COMMITTEE Report, 1.-12 a. RELIGION— Western Samoa, A.-4, 4. RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND Annual report, 8.-16. Credit: Utilization, 8.-6, 2. RESERVES AND OTHER LANDS DISPOSAL BILL Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 2. RETURNED SOLDIERS Soldiers Financial Aid Board, 8.—13, 8. RETURNS OR STATEMENTS Required by law or Resolution to be laid before the House, H.-13. RIHITOTO MATAIA AND OTHERS— Report and recommendation on petition of, G.-6a ; 1.-3, 6 ROAD SAFETY. See under TRANSPORT. RORE KATENE AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. RORI WATENE— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. ROTORUA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT Report, H.-22, 10. RURAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT ACT, 1927 Disbursements under, 8.-l [Pt. ll], 22. RURAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT BOARD— Annual report, 8.-14. SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT— Working of, H.-31, 18. SALES TAX. See under TAXATION. SAVAGE, LATE RIGHT HON. M. J., M.P.— Condolence, F.-l, 10 ; G.-9, 1 ; H.-14, 3 ; H.-21, 2. SCAFFOLDING AND EXCAVATION ACT. See under LABOUR. SCENERY PRESERVATION. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH— Department: Annual report, H.-34— Animal research, H.-34, 30. Agricultural colleges : Research work, H.-34, 65. Dominion Laboratory, H.-34, 72. Dominion Observatory, H.-34, 92. Fruit research, H.-34, 45. Geological survey, H.-34, 77. Leather and shoe research, H.-34, 60. Mineral content of pastures, H.-34, 41. Minister's report— Coal resources : Survey, H.-34, 3. Foodstuffs : Storage, H.-34, 2. Gas storage of fruit, H.-34, 3. Geological surveys, H.-34, 3. Leather and shoe manufacture, H.-34, 3. Linen fibre : Production, H.-34, 2. Primary and secondary industries, H.-34, 2. Scientific man-power, H.-34, 3. Supply problems, H.-34, 2. War problems, H.-34, 2. Wool-manufacturing industry, H.-34, 3. Plant Research Bureau, H.-34, 13. Phormium research, H.-34, 58. Radio research, H.-34, 63.

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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH —continued. Department: Annual report, H.-34—continued. Research Committees, &e. : Reports— Cheesemaking, H.-34, 7. Buttermaking, H.-34, 9. Collaboration with New Zealand Standards Institute, H.-34, 12. Dissemination of results of work, H.-34, 12. General, H.-34, 11. Mycology, H.-34, 10. Pasteurization and bottling of milk forschools, H.-34,12. Research work, H.-34, 7. Secretary's report— Emergency activities, H.-34, 4. Library, H.-34, 5. Physical Testing Laboratory, H.-34, 5. Research associations, H.-34, 5. Research progress, H.-34, 5. Secondary industries, H.-34, 5. Soil erosion, H.-34, 41. Soil survey, H.-34, 30. Timber protection, H.-34, 58. Tobacco research, H.-34, 54. Wheat Research Institute, H.-34, 44. Wool Manufacturers Research Association, H.-34, 62. Meteorological services, Air Department, H.-37, 14, 22-24. SEA CARRIAGE OF GOODS BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-11, 2 ; 1.—.13, 1. SEAMEN. See under MARINE. SERVANTS REGISTRY OFFICES ACT. See under LABOUR. SHEAT, W. A., AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 3. SHIPPING. See under MARINE. SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. See under LABOUR. SHOPS AND OFFICES AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-9, 1. SILVER, G. G. Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. SILVICULTURE. See under FORESTRY. SIME, T. Report on petition of, 1.-5, 3. SIMPSON, T. F.— Report on petition of, 1.—2, 2. SLY-GROG SELLING— Prosecutions, H.-16, 3. SMALL FARMS. See under LANDS. SMALL FARMS AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 3. SOCIAL SECURITY— Department—■ Annual report, H.-9— Age-benefits, H.-9, 2. Benefits, H.-9, 2. Benefits and pensions in force, H.-9, 9. Constitution, H.-9, 2. Cost of administration, H.-9, 9. Emergency benefits, H.-9, 6. Family benefits, H.-9, 3. Finance, H.-9, 6. General, H.-9, 9. Invalids' benefits, H.-9, 3. Maori War benefits, H.-9, 3. Miners' benefits, H.-9, 3. Orphans' benefits, H.-9, 3. Sickness benefits, H.-9, 5. Unemployment benefits, H.-9, 3. Universal superannuation, H.-9, 2. War pensions appeals, H.-9, 8. War veterans' allowances, H.-9, 8. Appeals, H.-9, 8. Widows' benefits, H.-9, 2. Work performed by Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 14. Health Department report, H.-31, 6.

SOCIAL SECURlTY—continued. Report of the Commissioner of Taxes upon the administration of Part IV of the Social Security Act, 1938, for the year ended 31st March, 1940, H.-9a. Statement of amounts paid on account of pensions and Social Security benefits for the financial years 1930-40, 8.-6, xiii. SPORTS AND RECREATION— Mountaineering: High ascents, season 1939-40—-Franz Josef Glacier, 11.-2, 12. Hermitage, H.-2, 12. Social amenities, mining townships, C.-2, 6. Sporting broadcasts, F.-3, 4. State forests, C.-3, 31. STATE ADVANCES CORPORATION OF NEW ZEALAND— Report and accounts for the year, 8.-13 — Finance, 8.-13, 8. Housing: Operations under Housing Act, 1919, 8.—13. 12. Interest-rates and terms of lending, B.- 13, 5. Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act, 1930, K.-13. 8. New business, 8.-13, 5. Overseas lending institutions, 8.-13, 7. Soldiers Financial Assistance Board, 8.-13, 8. Staff, 8.-13, 10. Trade and industry in New Zealand, 8.-13, 6. Treatment of timber as a protection against deterioration and timber pests, 8.-13, 7. Valuation of securities, 8.-13, 6. STANDARDIZATION— Industries and Commerce Department report, H.-44, 24. New Zealand Standards Institute : Annual report, 11.-44 a. Scientific and Industrial Research Department: Collaboration with New Zealand Standards Institute, H.-34, 12. STATE FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE— Annual report, H.-6. Accident Insurance Branch : Annual report, H.-6a. STATE FORESTS. See under FORESTRY. STATUTES AMENDMENT BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-4, 1 ; 1.-5, 2 ; 1.-9, 1 : 1.-11, I. STATUTES REVISION COMMITTEE, SELECT. See under COMMITTEES. STORES— Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 10. Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 9. Railways Department, D.-2, 21. Stores Control Board : Annual report, H.-4. SUGAR— Control, H.-38, 12. SULLIVAN, A., AND OTHERSReport on petition of, 1.-13, 2. SUPPLY MINISTRY— Activities of the Ministry in relation to the war : Statement by the Minister of Supply, H.-38. SURVEY. See LANDS AND SURVEY. SWAMP DRAINAGE. See under LANDS. TAIMUTU ARIKI NGAIA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. TAURANGA COUNTY COUNCIL AND OTHERS— ' Report on petition of, T.-2, 2. TAXATION— Company, 8.-6, 5. Death and gift duties, 8.-6, 6. Debenture interest, 8.-6, 5. Estimates, 1940-41, 8.-6, 6. Income, 8.-6, 3, 4, 5. National security, 8.-6, 7. Sales-tax, 8.-6, 7. Stamp and death duties, 8.-6, iv. Surtax, 8.-6, 5. Western Samoa, A.-4, 7.

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TAYLOR, W, D„ AND OTHERS — Report on petition of, 1. 2, 3. TE RAUNA HAPE AND OTHERS Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. TE ROERA TAIEHA AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 3. TEACHERS. See under EDUCATION. TELEGRAPHS. See POST AND TELEGRAPH. THOMPSON, ML— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. TOBACCO-GROWING. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS AND PUBLICITY— Annual report — General Manager'B report, H.-2, 2. Departmental activities within tile Dominion, 1I .--2, 2. Film and advertising studios, H.-2, 3. Financial, H.-2,4. New works, H.-2, 3. New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, H.-2, 2. Publicity, H.-2, 3. Staff, H.-2, 3. Te Anau Hotel, H.-2, 3. Travel to and within the Dominion, H.-2, 2. List of high ascents, H.-2, 12. Reports (extracts) of controlling officers — Chateau Tongariro, H.-2, 11. Lake House, Waikaremoana, H.-2, 10. Little Barrier Bird Sanctuary, H.-2, 11. London representative, H.-2, 7. Milford Track and hostel, H.-2, 11. Morere Hot Springs, H.-2, 11. Rotorua, H.-2, 8, 9. Te Anau Hotel, H.-2, 10. Te Aroha, H.-2, 7. Trade and Tourist Commissioner in— Australia, H.-2, 6. Canada and United States, 11.-2, 5. Europe, H.-2, 6. Western America, H.-2, 0. Waitomo Caves and Caves Hostel, H.—2, 10. Publicity Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, 27. Tourist resorts : Construction, &c., D.-l, xxii. TOWN-PLANNING - Report, H.-22, 6. TRADE. See INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. TRADE-MARKS. See PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADEMARKS. TRADE-UNIONS. See under LABOUR. TRANSPORT— Co-ordination of road and rail services, D.-2, 4. Department: Annual report, H.-40 — Appendix : Statistical returns — Comparative table showing number of motor-vehicles licensed as at 31st December, 1932, to 1939 inclusive, H.-40, 25. Motor-vehicles licensed at 31st March, 1940, H.-40, 25. Prosecutions by Traffic Inspectors of Transport Department, H.-40, 27. Statement of assets and liabilities of licensed passenger services, 1935 to 1939 inclusive, H.-40, 28. Table showing principal operating data for licensed commercial aircraft services, .1934 to 1939 inclusive, H.-40, 29. Traffic data, operating-expenses, revenue, and profit for licensed passenger services, 1935 to 1939 inclusive, H.-40, 28. Traffic Offences Bureau, H.-40, 26. Traffic, revenue, expenditure, and capital statistics of licensed goods services, 1935 to 1939 inclusive, 29. Changes in transport law in New Zealand, H.-40, 23.

TRANSPORT—continued. Department: Annual report, H.-40—continued. Commercial air services, H.-40, 24. Development of motor transport, H.-40, 4. Introduction, 11.-40, 3. Motor-vehicles (Third-party Risks) Act, 1938, H.-40, 19. Overseas Legislation, H.-40, 24. Regulation of commercial road transport, H.-40, 21. Regulations relating to oil-fuel control, H.-40, 24. Roads, H.-40, 6. Road-safety, H.-40, 9. War measures : Road transport, H.-40, 20. Level-crossing signals : Unification, A.-sa, 7. Lime industry, 11 .-29b, 11. Motor-vehicles : Registration, F.-l, 15. Niue Island, A.-6, 2. TUAHINE HATA— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 7. UNEMPLOYMENT. See under LABOUR. UNIVERSAL SUPERANNUATION. See SOCIAL SECURITY. UNIVERSITIES. See under EDUCATION. VANSTONE, H. E.— Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. VITAL STATISTICS. See under HEALTH. WAITARA BOROUGH EMPOWERING BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 2 ; 1.-16, 2. WAITARA HARBOUR BILL— Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 3; 1.—16, 2. WAR— Activities of Defence Forces of New Zealand in relation to the war : Statement by Minister of Defence, H.-19a. Aliens : Registration and internment, H.-16, 7. Activities of the Ministry of Supply in relation to the war, H.-38. Broadcasting and the war, F.-3, 5. Casualties : Public servants, H.-14, 12. Costs, &c„ 8.-6, 2, 3, 4. Emergency Precautions — Co-operation by local bodies, H.-22, 6. Schemes —Preparation: Statement by Minister of Internal Affairs, H.-22b. Food and other supplies to the United Kingdom during the war, H.-30, 3; H.-30b. Man-power of the Dominion: Utilization, H.-19b. National war funds : Assets, H.-22, 14. Post-office services— Amateur radio-transmitting licenses : Revocation, F.-l, 20. Censorship, F.-l, 10. Concessions for men on war service, F.-l, 3, 6, 11, 16. Effect on mails— Air, F.-l, 11, 12. Ocean, F.-l, 11. Military allotment warrants, F.-l, 15. Motor-spirits : Rationing, F.-l, 15. Post-office Patriotic Fund, F.-l, 10. Rates and charges : Increase, F.-l, 11, 16, 17. Staff : Enlistment of officers, F.-l, 6. Scientific and industrial research problems, H.-34, 2. Stores purchased, &c., H.-4, 3. Trading with the enemy, H.-38, 15. War graves : Report, H.-22, 12. War measures— Industries and Commerce Department, H.-44, 4. Road transport, H.-40, 20. War pensions appeal, H.-9, 8. War veterans' allowances, H.-9, 8. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT. See under LABOUR. WELLINGTON CITY EMPOWERING AND AMENDMENT BILL — Select Committee report on, 1.-5, 2 ; 1.-16, 2.

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WESTERN SAMOA— Mandated Territory: Twentieth annual report of the Government of New Zealand on the administration of, for the year ended 31st March, 1940, A.-4.— Education, A.-4, 8. Forests and agriculture, A.-4, 13. Freedom of conscience, A.-4, 4. General administration, A.-4, 3. Finance, A.-4, 4, 5. Lands and Survey, A.-4, 4. Native Affairs, A.-4, 8. Postal and radio, A.-4, 4. Staff, A.-4, 4. Trade, A.-4, 4. Visits, A.-4, 4. Health, A.-4, 10. International relations, A.-4, 2. Judicial organization, A.-4, 7. Labour, A.-4, 8. Land tenure, A.-4, 13. Liquor and drugs, A.-4, 9. Police and prisons, A.-4, 8. Population, A.-4, 13. Status, A.-4, 2. Public Works, A.-4, 13. Social conditions of the Natives, A.-4, 8. Taxation, A.-4, 7. Territory, status, A.-4, 2. Trade, A.-4, 4, 7, 14-16.

WESTLAND POWER, LTD. — Report on petition of, 1.-2, 2. WIDOWS' BENEFITS. See under SOCIAL SECURITY. WIREMU KARAKA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 9. WIREMU TUME AND ANOTHER— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 4. WOOFFINDIN, M. V.— Report on petition of, 1.-5, 2. WOOL. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. /»- WOMEN Women police: Appointment, H.-16, 7. WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT. See under LABOUR YOUTHSBoys and girls in factories, II .11, 3. Government Youth Centres, H.-11a, 11.

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