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1902 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. Tuesday, the Bth Day op July, 1902. 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 have power to report its opinions and observations thereon to this House ; also to have power to call for persons and papers ; three to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Bennet, Mr. Buddo, Mr. Fowlds, Mr. W. Fraser, Mr. McGuire, Mr. Meredith, Mr. Monk, Mr. O'Meara, Mr. G. J. Smith, and the mover."—(Hon. Mr. Mills.)

INDEX.

No. Petition. Page. I No. Petition. I Page. 51 28 149 89 Adams, T., and 62 others Anderson, R. P., and 45 others .. Andrews, G., and 60 others Ardern, J., and 59 others 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 93 150 275 Pisher, D. K., and 37 others Eraser, J. M., and 43 others Fraser, Bertha, and 64 others .. 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 467 196 175 205 373 76 357 12 132 31 280 Beale, J., and 102 others Bean, W. S., and 13 others Bennett, S. P., and 32 others .. Berwick, H, and 150 others Billclifl, S., and 60 others Bourne, W., and 41 others Brunsden, A.', and 38 others Bull, J. E., and 60 others Bull, H., and 32 others Bush, G. J., and 26 others Buttle, J. N., and 62 others 7 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 317 181 182 15 16 177 23 271 Glen, G. P., and 1,238 others .. Glenny, E., and 37 others Gow, Janet K., and 11 others .. Grant, K. W., and 56 others Gray, Rev. A., and 27 others Gray, E., and 60 others Greig, Rev. A., and 95 others .. Griffin, T. N., and 41 others .. 5, 6 6 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 77 362 365 10 264 236 Hales, P., and 35 others Harper, W., and 5 others Henderson, Mrs., and 153 others Hounsell, G., and 33 others Hunt, Jane, and 59 others Hutton, W., and 87 others 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 361 176 17 471 276 238 9 178 133 Carr, T. G., and 24 others Cathie, A. G., and 14 others Christie, J., and 60 others Coates, Rev. Canon, and 53 others Collis, W., and 197 others Coull, W., and 153 others Cox, G. D., and 51 others Crawford, A., and 93 others Crook, J. E., and 25 others 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 7 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 I 173 185 Joy, J. D., and 54 others 5, 6 Kent, M. J., and 14 others 6 461 473 134 382 243 49 87 De Weston, W. M. Devenish, J. M., and 62 others .. Dixon, Rev. W. G., and 64 others Downhard, L., and 25 others Drake, E., and 52 others Driver, H. H, and 477 others .. Dukes, Rev. J., and 137 others .. 7 7 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 5, 6 200 54 128 33 287 68 350 218 349 127 186) 187 I 188 J 208 174 472 97 320 MaoDonald, Alexander, and 50 others Macdonald, C, and 64 others .. Mackenzie, Jessie, and 6 others.. Macnicol, Rev. R. P., and 84 others Manchester, George, and 8 others Marten, W. B., and 32 others .. Maunder, Panny S., and 66 others McAinch, James McCarthy, Thomas McCarthy, Mary, and 47 others 3 5, 6 6 5, 6 4 5, 6 5 3 5 6 114 27 Edie, John, and 45 others Elmslie, Rev. Dr., and 84 others 5, 6 5, 6 McClusky, A. J. 4 126 11 Fantham, A. A. Pennell, R., and 25 others Pinal Report Findlay, J., and 56 others 4 5, 6 7 5, 6 McDonald, J. K. McDonald, P., and 22 others .. McKinstry, E. L., and 42 others McLaw, Rev. J., and 64 others .. McMillan, Thomas 4 5, 6 7 5, 6 5 222