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FORESTRY —continued. General —continued. List of common and botanical names of species mentioned in the report, C.-3, 21. Management— Areas of State forests, C.-3, 5. Forest atlas, C.-3, 8. Forest reconnaissance, demarcation, and surveys, C.-3, 6. Mining privileges in State forests, C.-3, 2. Protection forests, C.-3, 6. State afforestation, C.-3, 2, 6. Timber sales, C.-3, 7. Waitangi endowment, C.-3, 8. West Taupo timber lands, C.-3, 7. Opossum-trapping, C.-3, 2. Policy, C.-3, 2. Protection— Fires and fire districts, C.-3, 9. Forest fires, C.-3, 8. Forest parasite biology, C.-3, 9. Forest protection : Animal destruction, C.-3, 9. General, C.-3, 8. Silvicultural operations, and yields from exotic forests, C.-3, 10. Reports, summarized, on State afforestation in forest conservation regions, C.-3, 19. Sawmills, C.-3, 2. Timber trade — Domestic markets, C.-3, 14. Exports, C.-3, 15. General, C.-3, 14. Regional planning of indigenous forest areas, C.-3, 15. Utilization— Drying of timber, C.-3, 13. General, C.-3, 10. Grading, C.-3, 13. Logging technique, C.-3, 12. Miscellaneous, C.-3, 14. Sawmill technique, C.-3, 12. Wood preservation, C.-3, 13. Timber areas : Railways Department, D.-2, v, xxi. FORTY-HOUR WEEK. See under LABOUR. GLACIAL SCENIC RESERVES, WESTLAND— Article on, C.-6, 5, 10. GOLD-MINING. See under MINING. GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT. See under PUBLIC WORKS. GOVERNMENT SUPERANUATION FUNDS— Railways : Annual report, D.-5. Teachers — Annual report, E.-8. Minister's report, E.-l, 42. HARBOURS. See under MARINE. HAURAKI PLAINS DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. See under LANDS AND SURVEY. HEALTH— Health stamps, F.-l, 20. Infantile paralysis epidemic : Effect on passenger traffic, D.-2, i. Physical eduation, E.-l, 37. Post and Telegraph Department : Permanent staff, F.-l, 13. HOUSING— Native, G.-9, 5. Railways Department: Departmental dwellings, D.-2, xxx. State-coal mines, C.-2, 10. Surveys, C.-la, 2. HYDRO-ELECTRICITY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. ILLEGITIMACY— E.-4, 14. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE— Commercial Branch, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 4, 15. Commercial Branch, Railways Department, D.-2, xxx. Timber trade, C.-3, 14.

IRRIGATION. See under PUBLIC WORKS. JAMES COLLIERY. See under MINING INDUSTRY. JUSTICE AND PRISONS— .Native land law, G.-9, 4. KAPITI ISLAND RESERVE— Report, C.-6, 18. KAURI-GUM INDUSTRY— Report for the year, C.-12. KINDERGARTENS. See under EDUCATION. LABOUR— Domestic workers : Training, E.-2, 12. Forty-hour week, Post and Telegraph Department, F.-l, 13. Unemployment— Gold-prospecting subsidy, C.-2, 12, 13. Maoris, G.-9, 2. Tax : Collection, F.-l, 22. Workers — Employment, D.-l, v. Settlement, D.-l, xxxiv. LANDS— Development, &c., D.-l, 51. Drainage— Operations— Hauraki Plains : Annual report, C.-8. Rangitaiki Land Drainage : Annual report, C.-11. Swamp : Annual report, C.-4. Improvement, D.-l, xxvii. Kauri-gum industry : Annual report, C.-12. Land for Settlements Act, 1925 : Annual report, C.-5— Estates, private, acquired to 31st March, 1936: Summary, C.-5, 2. Land, private, purchased and paid for during year : Return, C.-5, 2. Land Purchase Controller : Report, C.-5, 1. Land for Settlement Account for the year— Balance-sheet, C.-5, 7-9. Payments from, during year, C.-5, 2. Receipts and Payments Account for the year, C.-5, 3-5. Revenue Account for the year, C.-5, 6. Properties considered during year : Number, C.-5, 2. National Endowments : Annual report, C.-14. Native — Consolidation, G.-9, 4. Development, and assistance to Maoris, G.-9, 2. Land laws, G.-9, 4. Maori Land Boards, G.-9, 3. Surveys, C.-la, 2. Public Domains and National Parks : Annual report, C.-10— National Parks, C.-10, 3. Arthur Pass, C.-10, 6. Egmont, C. —10, 6. Tongariro, C.-10, 4. Public Domains, C.-10, 1. Scenery preservation— Annual report, C.-6— Condition of reserves, &c., C.-6, 4. Expenditure— Comparison of, C.-6, 9. On scenery preservation for the year, C.-6, 8. Future operations, C.-6, 5. General, C.-6, 1. Gifts of scenic areas, C.-6, 4. Glacial Scenic Reserves of Westland, C.-6, 5, 10. Kapiti Island Reserve, C.-6, 18. Private Scenic Reserve declared under section 6 of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1933, C.-6, 8. Reserves made in 1936-37 under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and amendments, C.-6, 6. Revocations of reservations, C.-6, 7. Scenery Preservation Board, C.-6, 3. Summary of Reserves, C.-6, 8. Supervision of Reserves, C.-6, 3. Bush preservation and amenity planting, D.-l, 172. Settlement— Backblock roads : Metalling, D.-l, i. Crown-lands settlement : Annual report — Educational endowment, C.-l, 6.