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PUBLIC WORKS—continued. Annual statement, D.-l—continued. Main Highways Board : Annual report—continued. Legislation, D.-l, 175. Lengths of main highways, D.-l, 238. Lighting on main highways, D.-l, 208. Local Authorities — Advances, D.-l, 209. Appeal of local authority against decision of Board as to apportionment of cost of work. D.-l, 215. Contact with, D.-l, 207. Magnetic truck, D.-l, 213. Maintenance, D.-l, 162, 239. Mileage of main highways metalled and surfaced since inception of Board's operations (9th June. 1924), D.l, 239. Personnel, D.-l, 175. Plant, D.-l, 209. Progress report, D.-l, 216. Renewals and improvements, D.-l, 179. Residential accommodation for regular surfacemen, D.-l, 209. Road-safety measures, D.-l, 206. Sign-posting, centre-line marking, &c., D.-l, 208. Speeds on main highways, D.-l, 205. Standardization of road signs, D.-l, 208. State-highways system, D.-l, 185. Tables— Annual main highways accounts, D.-l, 234. Construction of work completed during the year 1937-38, D.-l, 238. Length of main highways, D.-l, 238. Lenths of main highways metalled and surfaced since inception of Board's operations (9th June, 1924), D.-l, 239. Maintenance of main highways (including bridges), D.-l, 239. Tests of stone completed during year, D.-l, 240. Traffic census, D.-l, 186. Working-conditions and rates of wages, D.-l, 208. Minister's report— Aerodromes and subsidiary services : Establishment, D.-l, xxxi. Education buildings, D.-l, xxxi. Finance— Expenditure, 1937-38 : Public Works Fund, D.-l. viii. Receipts, Public Works Department, 1937-38, D.-l, ix. Votes under control of Minister of Public Works : Summary, D.-l, v. Votes under control of Ministers other than Minister of Public Works : Summary, D.-l, vi. Hawke's Bay floods, D.-l, xxiii. Health and hospital institutions, D.-l, xxx. Mental hospitals, D.-l, xxx. Harbour-works and lighthouses, D.-l, xxxvi. Hydro-electric development, D.-l, xii. Irrigation and water-supply, D.-l, xxiv. Land-improvement, D.-l, xxxiv. Main highways, D.-l, x. Native-land settlement, D.-l, xxxvi. Plant and mechanical equipment, D.-l, xxxv. Public buildings, D.-l, xxvii. Railway-construction, D.-l, xvi. Railways : Improvements and additions to open lines, D.-l, xx. Settlement and other roads, D.-l, xxi. Settlement of unemployed workers, D.-l, xxxv. Telegraph extensions, D.-l, xxxii. Tourist and health resorts, D.-l, xxxiv. Bridges : Lengths of various types, H.-40, 39. Budget statement, 8.-6, 11, 22. Cook Islands, A.-3, 10. Flood damage, Hawke's Bay, H.-IIA, 8. Fund— Appropriations chargeable on the Fund and other accounts for the year, 8.-7 a. Statement showing net expenditure under appropriations for the year compared with previous year, 8.-6, x. Statement showing the issues from the Fund for the financial year compared with sums voted under the Appropriation Act, 8.-l [Pt. I], 34. Statement showing the total ways and means of the Fund, General Purposes Account, and the total net expenditure for the year, 8.-6, xi. Irrigation, H.-29, 44. Main highways— Expenditure and revenue, 8.-6, 19, 20. Lengths of various classes of, H.-40, 39. Lewis Pass Road : A short descriptive account, C.-6, 12. Roads and tracks : Mining areas, C.-2, 13. Niue Island, A.-6, 5. Western Samoa, A.-4, 28.

PUEHU NGAMAHANGA, TE— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 11. RADIO. See BROADCASTING ; also under POST AND TELEGRAPH. RAFFLES— H.-22, 18. RAGWORT MENACE. See under AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL. RAILWAYS— Accidents — Aylesbury accident, D.-2, vii. Derailment of special excursion train near Ratana on 26th March, 1938, D.-2, vii, xl; D.-3. Annual statement, D.-2.— Balance-sheets and statements of accounts and statistical returns, 1936, D.-2, 1-31. General Manager's report— Accident to special excursion passenger-train near Ratana, D.-2, xl. Advertising service, D.—2, xix. Bookstall service, D.-2, xxi. Branch lines, D.-2, xxxiii. Commercial Branch, D.-2, xxxv. Department dwellings, D.-2, xxvii. Farmers' excursions, D.-2, xxxvi. Finance, D.-2, ix, x. Forestry Branch, D.-2, xxix. Goods and live-stock, D.-2, xvi. Household removals, D.-2, xxxvi. Isolated sections, D.-2, xxxiii. Lake Wakatipu steamers, D.-2, xxvi. Parcels, luggage, and mails, D.-2, xv. Passengers' luggage, D.-2, xxxvi. Passenger traffic, D.-2, xiv. Publicity, D.-2, xxxiv. Rail-car services, D.-2, xxvii. Refreshment service, D.-2, xx. Road motor services, D.-2, xxi. " Save to travel " stamps, D.-2, xxxvii. Sick Benefit Fund, D.-2, xxviii. Signal and electrical, D.-2, xxxviii. Staff, D.-2, xl. Stores Branch, D.-2, xxviii. Subsidiary services, D.-2, xiii. Suburban passenger traffic, D.-2, xxxvi. Suggestions and Inventions Committee, D.-2, xxviii. Timber areas, D.-2, xxix. Transportation, D.-2, xxx. Truck rates, D.-2, xxxvi. Ways and Works Branch, D.-2, xxxvii. Workshops, D.—2, xxix. Minister's report— Accidents, D.-2, vii. Business : Increase, D.-2, i. Centennial-year preparations, D.-2, vii. Christchurch new station and yard, D.-2, vi. Finance, D.-2, ii. Housing programme, D.—2, vi. Improvements to existing railways, D.-2, v. Level crossings : Elimination, D.-2, vi. Locomotives, steam and electric : Construction, D.-2. ii. Rail-cars : Development, D.-2, i. Road services, D.—2, iv. Rolling-stock, additional, D.-2, v. Wages and conditions, D.-2, iii. Wellington new station, D.-2, ii, iv. Working results, past five years, D.-2, viii. Budget statement, 8.-6, 12, 24. Co-ordination of long-distance road freight services and railway services, H.-40, 34. Construction, D.-l, xvi, 25. Expenditure, D.-l, 8. Superannuation Fund : Annual report, D.-5. Tickets printed, H.-36, 1. RANGI RAROA AND OTHERS— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 8. RANGI RUMAKI PERENIKI— Report on petition of, 1.-3, 5. RANGITAIKI LAND DRAINAGE. See under LANDS. RAROTONGA— Money-order-telegram service, F.-l, 22,

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