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1905. NEW ZEALAND.

AGRICULTURAL, PASTORAL, AND STOCK COMMITTEE, AND JOINT AGRICULTURAL, PASTORAL, AND STOCK COMMITTEE (REPORTS OF THE).

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

ORDER OF REFERENCE.

Extract from the Journals of the House of Representatives. Thursday, the 28th Day of June, 1905. Ordered, "That Standing Order No. 218 be suspended, and that a Committee, consisting of fourteen members, be appointed to consider all matters pertaining to agricultural and pastoral industries and stock ; with power to oonfer and sit together with any similar Committee which may be appointed by the Legislative Council, and to agree to a joint or separate report; the Committee to have power to call for persons, papers, and records ; three to be a quorum : the Committee to consist of Mr. Bollard, Mr. Buddo, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Kidd, Mr. Kirkbride, Mr. Lawry, Mr. Lethbridge, Mr. T. Mackenzie, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Rutherford, Hon. Sir W. J. Steward, Mr. Symea, and the mover."—(Hon. Mr. Duncan).

REPORTS.

AGRICULTUEAL, FASTOEAL, AND STOCK COMMITTEE. (Mr. LAWKY, Chairman.)

Fruit Trade. I am directed by the Agricultural, Pastoral, and Stock Committee to ask leave to lay on the table of the House certain evidence given before that Committee by Messrs. Charles Bagley and Josiah Daniel Webster on the fruit trade of the colony, and also to ask that the same may be printed. (Vide Appendix 1.-12 c.) 18th July, 1905. I am directed by the Agricultural, Pastoral, and Stock Committee to ask leave to lay on the table of the House certain evidence given before the Committee by Messrs. William Johns, President of the Fruit-growers' Union, Auckland, and T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, Wellington, on the fruit trade of the colony, and also to ask that the same be printed. (Vide, Appendix 1.-12 c.) 24th August, 1905.

Seeds Examination Bill. The Agricultural, Pastoral, and Stock Committee, to whom was referred the Seeds Examination Bill, have the honour to report that they have carefully considered the said Bill, and they recommend that the same be allowed to proceed with the amendments shown in the copy attached hereto. (Vide Appendix 1.-12 a.) 29th August, 1905.

Nos. 83, 210, 211, 212, 213, and 214.—Petitions of Mrs. Henribtte Moir and 54 Others, James Moir and 153 Others, J. G. Parry and 33 Others, L. J. Pattison and 19 Others, H. Wilson and 19 Others, and Nathaniel Wilson and 14 Others, of Warkworth, Mahurangi, Puhoi, and other places north of Auckland. Petitioners pray for amendment of " The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900." I am directed to report that the Committee recommend that the petitions be referred to the Joint Agricultural, Pastoral, and Stock Committee. 19th September, 1905.