INDEX.

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.

V