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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

REPORTS OF PUBLIC PETITIONS M TO Z COMMITTEE. (Mr. MEREDITH, CHAIRMAN.)

Presented to the House of Representatives, and ordered to be printed.

ORDERS OF REFERENCE. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Thubsday, the 25th Day op June, 1896. Ordered, " That a Public Petitions M to Z Committee, consisting of ten members, be appointed to consider all petitions that may be referred to it by the Petitions Classification Committee, to classify and prepare abstracts of such petitions in such form and manner as shall appear to it best suited to convey to this House all requisite information respecting their contents, and to report the same from time to time to this House, and to have power to report its opinions and observations thereupon to this House ; also to have power to call for persons and papers: three to be a quorum. The Committee to consist of Mr. Collins, Mr. Fraser, Mr. Lang, Mr. McNab, Mr. Meredith, Mr. Morrison, Mr. E. M. Smith, Mr. Willis, and the mover."—(Hon. Mr. T. Thompson.)

Pbiday, the 26th Day of June, 1896. Ordered, '" That the name of Mr. Lewis be added to the Public Petitions M to Z Committee."—(Hon. Mr, T. Thompson.)

INDEX.

Petitioners, &c. 'age. fo. doners, ;o. 'age, fo. !72 B. Browall, James, and Others 6 36 422 23 Phillips, C. Phillips, H. Plummer, A. 5 6 2 .00 147 D. De Weston, William M. and Marion Doull, James, and Others 2 6 519 42 265 452 387 R. Ready, M. Reid, A. W., and Others.. Rochfort, J. H, and Others Ross, J., and Another Roulston, J., and Others 8 4 5 7 6 F. Final Report 8 K. Kelsey, E., and Others .. 8 532 511 65 28 85 454 62 318 19 1895 s. i08 Schlesinger, A. .. Schwass, H, and Others Sculley, J. Sewell, W. Silk, Mrs. Jane Smith, J. Stott, A. Stringer, W., and Others I Strudwick, J. W. 8 8 3 3 3 6 2 5 M. 3 6 5 3 6 4 7 6 7 6 4 3 4 8 4 4 3 3 5 3 6 4 6 4 349 166 137 350 157 423 373 513 351 241 41 177 546 169 160 10 149 146 45 396 126 165 Macalister, R. .. Macdonald, Charles, and Others Manley, Mrs. Ruth Manson, M., and Others Martin, D., and Others McClaskey, J. J., and Others McDonald, J. K. McKerraas, J., and Others McLaughlan, H. McMeckin, Agnes, and Others McMillan, D., and Others McNaught, A. .. McPherson, A., and Others McQueen, Mrs. Rhoda .. McRae, J., and Others McTaggart, J., and Others Meikle, J. J. Moir, Mrs. Eliza Montorfano, F. .. Moore, Mrs. Jane Morton, G., and Others Mountfort, Mrs. Christina Mynott, J. 320 195 238 251 376 6 476 T. Taylor, A., and Others .. Taylor, D., and Others .. Temperance Political Committee, Dunedin Thomas, J., and Others Trask, F., and Others Tribe, W. A. (No. 1) Tribe, W. A. (No. 2) 8 5 4 4 5 6 7 7 155 V. Varcoe, T,, and Others .. 35 122 46 100 348 541 253 178 360 522 498 375 w. 2 539 N. Nestor, T. New Zealand Refrigerating Company (Limited) o. 2 8 Walker, J. J. .. Warner, Mrs. Bessie Annie Waterston, W. S. Weston, William M. and Marion de Whilburn, S., and Others Williams, Rev. G., and Others Willis, Archdeacon, and Others Wilson, 0. R. .. Wingfield, A. J., and Others Wood, T. Wright, J., and Others .. Wyatt, Mrs. Margaret 2 i 2 2 6 8 5 5 6 7 7 6 415 470 O'Rourke, B. .. Orange, A. E. .. 6 8 P. 2 5 37 319 Pennefather, A. A. Pheasant, E., and Others 361 Y. Young, A., and Others ..