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INTEEIM EBPOET.

The Goldfields and Mines Committee, to whom was referred the Coal-mines "Acts Amendment Bill, have the honour to report that they have taken a considerable body of evidence in connection with the matters embodied—or it is held should be embodied—in the said Bill, and they now submit as an interim report that they recommend your honourable House to order that the said evidence be laid on the table and be printed. Parliament Buildings, Wellington, 30th August, 1905. JAMES COLVIN, Chairman.

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