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1899. NEW ZEALAND.

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

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

ORDER OF REFERENCE. Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Wednesday, the 12th Day of July, 1899. Ordered, " That a Publio 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 abstraots 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 ita 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. Field, Mr. Fraser, Mr. Holland, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Meredith, Mr. Monk, Mr. Moore, Mr. Morrison, Mr. O'Meara, and the Mover."—(Hon. Mr. T. Thompson.)

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No. Petition. Page. No. Petition. Page. 62 27 18 216 361 33 264 26 477 497 76 10 11 125 82 89 142 120 41 Mackay, W. G., and 102 Others.. Mackenzie, Jessie, and 112 Others Macbeth, F. D. Macky, James MacDougall, Allan Madigan, Patrick Malone, Josiah Marin, Louis Marshall, John Taylor Marshall, James, and 109 Others Masefield Brothers and 39 Others Masters, W. W., and 56 Others (No. 1) Masters, W. W., and 61 Others (No. 2) Maxfield, Harry Meikle, John James Meikle, William, and 54 Others .. Montgomery, Eliza Musson, G., and 37 Others Myers, John Scott 2 2 4 6 9 5 7 2 9 9 3 2 2 4 4 3 5 3 8 431 Pye, William A., and 106 Others 8 55 Quirke, Thomas 3 382 469 68 12 209* '262 446 56 152 Ranger, Henry J., and 97 Others Ranish, Harry Rattigan, Peter Raven, William James, and 4 Others Raven, William James, and 4 Others Roisterer, Lorenz Rizzi, Agostino Ross, R. J. .. Rountree, John Resolution of Committee asking the House to refer petitions held over from last session Report, Final 7 9 6 4 5 7 9 2 6 3 10 28 388 57 464 318 47 227 375* 71 162 McAuliffe, John McGaffin, A., and 34 Others McKeown, Arthur McKeever, William MoKinnon, Gordon McLean, Arthur MoLellan, James MoMurray, Gavin McNelies, Mathew Mo Williams, W. F. Daldy 2 7 2 8 8 4 6 5 7 6 221* 20 43 390* 38 449 451 377 491 288 4 Sohnackenberg, Mrs. A. J., and 4 Others.. Scott, John Scully, Hannah Scully, Patrick .. Scully, James Seagar Brothers Seymour, A. P. Shearman, Thomas Shepherd, T. V., and 1,479 Others Smith, Margaret Smith, Clara 4 2 ' 3 3 6 9 8 8 9 7 5 3 8 380 175 Tarrant, H. A., and 42 Others Tindall, Thomas R. .. 7 5 53 356 Neill, Robert, and 5 Others Nicholas, Henry 282 Vaughan, Joseph, and 30 Others 6 506 252 111 150 291 O'Donohue, Jeremiah John O'Leary, Jeremiah O'Neil, John .. O'Rourke, Bartholomew Osborne, Samuel, and 38 Others 9 9 4 5 6 211 107 515 364 19 124 496 105 507 31 266 386 52 Waterworth, W. Wheeler, John White, Rose Wiloock, William George Wilford, Thomas Mason Wilks, John Willis, W. N. de L., and 60 Others Wilson, A., and 56 Others Woller, Frederick Woodbury, Frederick Woodford, Edward Worden, Thomas, and 155 Others Wright, A., and 131 Others .. 6 4 10 8 5 4 • 9 3 9 7 7 8 6 63 110 387* 77 299 37 16 Parker, W. J., and 62 Others Peterson, John Petit, W., and 795 Others Phillips, Coleman Piatt, W. S., and 33 Others Porter, James.. Power, Patrick 5 4 4 3 6 3 4 * 1898.