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1873. NEW ZEALAND.

RETURN OF PETITIONS IN FAVOUR OF A PERMISSIVE BILL PRESENTED DURING SESSION 1873.

Eeturn to an Order of the Souse of Representatives, dated 22nd September, 1873. (Son. Mr. Fox.)

RETURN of PETITIONS in favour of PERMISSIVE BILL presented during Session 1873.

No. From whom presented. No. of Signatures. 24 33 37 38 41 49 58 59 75 96 97 98 99 109 110 111 112 125 126 127 128 129 132 137 138 Members of Unsectarian Congregations, Auckland Chairman, "Wesleyan Church, Kaiapoi Men of Taranaki Women of Taranaki ... Inhabitants of Palmerston North "Women of Canterbury and Otago Good Templars Inhabitants of Canterbury and Maoris of Otago ... St. Albans "Wesleyan Church, Canterbury Males of Mahurangi, Auckland .... Females of Mahurangi, Auckland Males of Dunedin Suburbs Females of Dunedin Suburbs ... Females of Poverty Bay Males of Poverty Bay Inhabitants of Whangaroa Inhabitants of Bay of Islands ... Females of "Wellington Inhabitants of "Wellington Females of Mangawhai Men of Mangawhai Men of Invercargill ... Inhabitants of Invercargill Inhabitants of Port Albert Inhabitants of Port Albert 185 2 142 121 32 818 100 1,630 5 30 24 1,600 1,500 7 16 79 199 116 94 7 16 356 300 59 46 25 7,484 Welli: P. E. Campbell, ington, 23rd September, 1873. Clerk, House of Represent! ttives. Price 3d.' By Authority : Geobgk DrBBBnsT, Government Printer, Wellington.—1873.