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1903. NE W ZEALAND.

REPORTS OF LANDS COMMITTEE. (Mr. A.W. HOGG, Chairman.)

Presented to the House of Representatives and ordered to be printed.

ORDER OP REFERENCE. Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Friday, the 3rd day of July, 1903. Ordered, "That Standing Order No. 211 be suspended, and that a Committee, consisting of twenty members, be appointed 'to consider all Bills and petitions that may be introduced into this House affecting the lands of the Crown, and to report generally upon the principles and provisions which they contain ; with power to confer and sit together with any similar Committee which may be appointed by the Legislative Council, and to agree to a joint or separate report; the Committee to have power to call for persons, papers, and records; three to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Bonnet, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Ell, Mr. Flatman, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hall, Mr. Harding, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Lang, Mr. Laurenson, Mr. Lawry, Mr. R. McKenzie, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Symes, Mr! J. W. Thomson, Mr. Vile, Mr. Witty, Mr. Wood, and the mover."—(Hon. Mr. Duncan.)

INDEX.

No. Name. Page. No. Name. Pago. 165 151 Aikin, James, and others Bain, Edward Ballot System, The Beattie, James Bills, — Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Crown Grants Act Amendment (No. 2) Crown Tenants' Rent Rebate Act Amendment Land Act Amendment Public Domains Act Amendment Sand-drift (No. 2) .. Blagden, Charles, and others Brown, Patrick a 2 6 2 887 176 685 649 Henley, Mrs. Abbey Holland, James Hudson, Josiah, and others Hughes, S. C. 8 3 G 5 36 308 719 Johns, W. E., and others Jones, J. Gordon-, and others 3 7 91-1 •A 5 .45-1 10-1 818 Katterns, W.J. 7 l47-2 L60-1 96-2 504 624 5 5 5 3 4 7 439 784 Lasson, C, and others Letts, M. W., and others 5 T 768 449 493 168 569 306 137 812 Campbell, Alexander Chadwick, Wilfred, and others (No. 1) .. Chadwick, Wilfred, and others (No. 2) .. Cbeal, P. E. .. Clelland, John, and others Cochran, A., jun., and others Courtney, W. .. Craven, T. A., and others 5 4 4 2 4 3 3 6 97 076 202 681 518 190 821 57 305 455 Martin, H. T., and others Masters, E. M., and others Matheson, John, and others Matthews, A. F. Moir, James, and others Murray, L. W., and others McCarthy, _., and others MoClosky, A. M. McCormick, James, and others .. Mcllraith, James [ McKeown, Arthur \ McKeown, Arthur 2 6 3 (i 1 2 6 2 :-! 4 5 7 656 309 167 668 de Loitte, Edward de N. Downs, T. F., and others Draper, George Ward 4 2 6 166 Nisbet, L., and others 2 648 Ogle, George, and others 6 722 Edson, J. L., and others 6 338 713 469 Parsons, W. F., and others Pilkington, John James Pollock, James, and others 3 5 5 462 522 Freeman, John W. Fuller, Walter 7 4 4 i 7 2 665 (Robertson, William "(Robertson, William 6 7 391 565 719 164 Gibson, Walter Gifford, John .. Gordon-Jones, J. Gubb, J. A. .. 733 412 218 Shostrum, A , and others Smith, W. J., and others Stembridge, J. T\, and others .. 6 4 3 589 732 317 752 503 Haggarty, Patrick Hammond, Horace, and others Harnett, P. L., and McCauley (No. 1) .. Harnett, P. L., and McCauley (No. 2) .. Hayter, James, and others 6 6 3 5 1 414 Urquhart, P., and others 4 41 189 Wilson, A., and others Wilson, George A., and others .. 2 3