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1904. NEW ZEALAND.

EXTENSION OF COMMERCE COMMITTEE: REPORT ON PAPER NO. 56, COPY OF AGREEMENT MADE BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY IN RIGHT OF HIS COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND OF THE ONE PART, AND THE NEW ZEALAND AND AFRICAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF THE OTHER PART, TOGETHER WITH THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE THEREON. (Mr. T. MACKENZIE, Chairman.)

Brought up on Friday, the 21st day of October, and ordered to be printed.

OBDEBS OP EEFEEENCE. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Thursday, the 30th Day of June, 1904. Ordered. " That Standing Order No. 218 be suspended, and that a Committee be appointed, consisting of nineteen members, to inquire into and report as to the best means of promoting the commerce of the colony, and the sale of the colony's produce in markets other than those at present obtainable ; the Committee to have power to call for persons and papers ; three to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Aitken, Mr. Barber, Mr. Bollard, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Duthie, Mr. Field, Mr. Hanan, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Harding, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Houston, Mr. Laurenson, Mr. T. Mackenzie, Mr. McNab, Mr. Millar, Sir W. E. Eussell, Mr. Eutherford, Mr. Witheford, and the mover."—(Hon. Sir J. G. Ward.) Friday, the Ist Day op July, 1904. Ordered, " That Paper No. 56, Copy of Agreement with the New Zealand and African Steamship Company, be referred to the Extension of Commerce Committee."—(Mr. Massey.)

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