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1877. NEW ZEALAND.

WASTE LANDS COMMITTEE.

SOUTH DUNEDIN RESERVE BILL, (REPORT ON, TOGETHER WITH MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS AND EVIDENCE.)

Report brought up and ordered to he printed, 23rd November, 1877.

OEDERS OF REFERENCE. Extracts from the Journals of the Souse of 'Representative!. Friday, the 20th day op July, 1877. Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider all Bills and petitions that may be introduced into this House affecting the waste lands of the Crown, and to report generally upon the principles and provisions which they contain; with power to confer or sit together with any similar Committee which may be appointed by the Legislative Council, and to agree to a joint or separate report. That such Committee do consist of seventeen members, and that five be a quorum. The Committee to consist of Mr. Ballance, Mr. Beetham, Mr. J. E. Brown, Mr. Bunny, Mr. Curtis, Sir R. Douglas, the Hon. Mr. Fox, Mr. Harper, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Luinsden, the Hon. Mr. Ormond, Mr. Pyke, Mr. Rolloston, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Stout, Mr. Thomson, and the Mover.— (Son. Mr. Reid.) Memorandum for the Chairman, Waste Lands Committee. I'HB Bill intituled the South Dunedin Reserve Bill was read a second time in the House of Representatives on the 14th day of November, and, by order of the House of the 20th July, stands referred to the Waste Lands Committee for report. House of Representatives, J?. E. Campbell, 15th November, 1877. Clerk of House of Representatives.

REPORT. The Select Committee on Waste Lands, to whom was referred a Bill intituled "The South Dunedin Reserve Act, 1877," have the honor to report, — That the land proposed to be dealt with by this Bill was included in the plan of land for harbour works and reclamation, submitted to and approved of by His Excellency the Governor before the existence of the South Dunedin Municipality, and has been granted by the Crown to the Otago Harbour Board accordingly. The Committee therefore recommend that the Bill be not passed. Oswald Curtis, 23rd November, 1877. Chairman.

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.

Fbidat, 16th Novembeb, 1877. The Committee met pursuant to notice at 11 o'clock a.m. Peesent : Mr. Curtis in the chair. Mr. Beetham, Mr. Luinsden, Mr. Bunny, Mr. Lusk, Sir E. Douglas, Hon. Mr. Reid, Mr. Hamlin, Mr. Tescheinaker. Mr. Harper, I—l. 6A.