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R E P 0 R T. The Select Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed August Bth, 1856, to whom was referred the consideration of the transfer by the Provincial Government of the building lately erected as a Government House at Auckland, to die General Government; having carefully considered the matter referred to them, report as follows : — Your Committee of opinion, that the building in question is suitable for the Houses ot Assembly, and for the offices of the General Government, and that it is very desirable that it should be occupied for such purposes. That, in order to repay the Province of Auckland for the cost of the building ; the present Government Offices, and the buildings of the present Houses of Assembly, together with tlie land on which those buildings are situated, and any other public reserves in the City of Auckland which may be available for that purpose, should be given up to the Province, if the Province will accept such proposal. 'I hat, as part of the arrangement, it will be proper that a suitable building for the residence of the Governor should be erected on the Auckland Government Domain, for which it will be necessary to make provision during the present Session. J. LOGAN CAMPBELL, Chairman. Committee Booms, House of Representatives, August Y\th, 1856.