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1877. NEW ZEALAND.

WASTE LANDS COMMITTEE. LAND BILL, 1877.

<REPORT ON THE, TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AND EVIDENCE.) Meport brought up on 2ith September, and ordered to be printed. ORDERS OF REFERENCE. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Fbidat, the 20th day op July, 1877. Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider all Bills and Petitions that may be introduced into thid House affecting the Waste Lands of the Crown, and to report generally upon the principles and provisions which they contain with power to confer or sit together with any similar Committee, which may be appointed by the Legislative Council, and to agree to a joint or separate report. That such Committee do consist of seventeen members, and that five be a quorum. The Committee to consist of Mr. Ballance, Mr Beetham, Mr J. E. Brown, Mr. Bunny, Mr. Curtis, Sir R. Douglas, Hon. Mr. Fox, Mr. Harper, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Lumsden, Hon. Mr. Ormond,«Mr. Pyke, Mr. Rolleston, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Stout, Mr. Thomson, and the Mover. (On motion of Hon. Mr. Reid.) Wednesday, the 25th day of Jdlt, 1877. Ordered, That the name of Mr. Teschemaker be added to the Waste Lands Committee.— (On motion of Hon. Mr. Reid.) Thursday, the 9th day op August, 1877. Ordered, That the name of Mr. Bastings be added to the Waste Lands Committee.— (On notion of Mr. Macandrew.) Tuesday, the 14th day of August, 1877. Ordered, Thatj the Petition of Chairman, Councillors, and inhabitants of the County of Inangahua be refered to the Select Committee on Waste Lands.—(On motion of Mr. Kelly.) Thursday, the 16th day of August, 1877. Ordered, That the names of Mr. Lusk and Mr. Hamlin be added to the Waste Lands Committee.— (On tnotkn of Sir <3. Grey.) Thursday, the 30th day of August, 1877. Ordered, That the Petitions of Inhabitants of Wairarapa (1), Inhabitants of Wairarapa (2), Inhabitants of Wairarapa (3), be referred to the Select Committee on Waste Lands.— (On motion of Mr. Kelly.) MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WASTE LANDS COMMITTEE. The Bill intituled "The Land Act, 1877," was read a second time in the House of Representatives on the 4th September, and by Order of the House of the 20th July, stands referred to the Waste Lands Committee for report. I.—l. 6.