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San Francisco Service— Incidents of Pacific Transit, &c. Page 3 Aocounts with Oceanic Steamship Com- Nos. pany .. .. .. .. 1 Auokland Chamber of Commerce : Reinstatement of servioe .. .. 2 Mails by Weir Line. Pages 3-5 Nos. " Aeon," wreok of .. .. 8-14 Agreement: Australian Mail Line and United States Post Office .. .. 6 Details of voyage of s.s. " Porerlo," 30th March, 1908 .. .. .. 5 Proposed New Zealand port of call on outward voyage : Offer by agents .. 3, 4, 7,15 Wellington - Rarotonga - Tahiti Route. Pages 6-24 Aocounts, basis of rendering, on behalf of Nos. Union Steam Ship Company .. 50, 53, 55-6, 58-9, 61-2, 66-7, Arrangement with Huddart-Parker Company for conveyance of inward Australian mails to Sydney .. .. 36, 38-9 Auokland Chamber of Commerce: Protest against servioe .. .. ~ 81, 40 Charges for conveyance, Tahiti-San Franoisco .. .. .. .. 18-20 Closed mails for Rarotonga .. .. 41,52,60 Contract .. .. .. .. 65,68-9 Donald and Edenborough, Auckland: Protest against service .. .. .. 33, 44 Mails from Australia, accounts for .. 47,51,54 Mileage of route .. .. .. 16-7 Notification of arrival of mails in London 46 Notification of establishment of servioe .. 26-7,30,32, 43, 45, 48, 57 Oceanio Steamship Company as agents for Union Steam Ship Company .. .. 35, 61 Payment for coastwise conveyance by Union Steam Ship Company .. .. 63-5 Proposal by Union Steam Ship Company to establish service .. .. .. 16 Protests against servioe from Auckland Chamber of Commeroe .. .. 31,40 Protests against service from Donald and Edenborough, Auckland .. .. 33,44 Return mails: United States of America and United Kingdom .. .. 29,45,46 Subsidy .. .. .. .. 21-4, 28 Time-table .. .. .. .. 24-5, 34 Transit rates .. .. .. 34, 36-8, 42, 49,67 Australia-Suez Service— Transit Charges. Page 25 Based on statistics, November, 1907 .. No. 70

Wellington-Suez Connection- Pages 25-36 Connection at Auckland for southern por- Nob. tion of inward Suez mail .. .. 80 Connection at Sydney with express for Adelaide .. .. .. .. 103-4 Contract renewed to July, 1910 : Copy .. 96 Inward connection at Sydney .. .. 92 " Maheno," late arrival, Sydney, 23 June, . 1908: Special engaged .. .. 77 " Maitai," late arrival, Sydney, 8 September, 1908 : Special engaged .. .. 87-90 Proposed reversal of dates, Auckland and Wellington sailings from Sydney .. 86, 91 Renewal of Wellington-Sydney service : Penalty olause .. .. 79, 81, 84-5,95-6 Speoial trains, Sydney-Melbourne-Ade-laide : Cost .. .. .. .. 104 Times of transport, London and New Zealand via Suez .. .. .. 74 Times of transport, Adelaide to Sydney .. 76-6 Time of departure of steamer from Wellington .. .. .. .. 71-3,93-4 Times of arrival in Sydney of mails by Orient and P. and 0. steamers .. 83 Timos of arrival of steamer, Sydney, to conneot with ordinary and speoial trains 89-90 Times of arrival Orient mails, Melbourne 78, 82 "Ulimaroa" missed oonneotion, Sydney, 9th June, 1908 .. .... 72 " Warrimoo " mails, June, 1909 : Late arrival, Sydney: Penalty waived .. 97-102 Vancouver Service— Sydney-Vancouver Contract. Page 36 Sea transit based on statistics, November, Nos. 1907 (70) Sydney-Vancouver contraot extended to July, 1909 105-6 Connection at Fiji. Pages 36-37 Disadvantages of carrying mails and pas- Nos. sengers on to Brisbane .. .. 109-10 Proposed detention of Union Steam Ship Company's steamer for inward mails to Auckland .. .. .. .. 107-8 Proposed All-red Route. Pages 38-39 Auckland Chamber of Commeroe : Resolu- Nos. ''on •• .. .. .. 11l Coulter, Dr., Deputy Postmaster-General, Canada : Arrival in New Zealand .. 112, 115 New Zealand offers £20,000 if steamer oalls Auckland .. .. .. 116-7 Proposal by Messrs. Purness, Withy, and Co., to run servioe .. .. .. 113 Time of transit, Vancouver-Suva-Auck-land-Sydney .. .. .. 114 Wellington Chamber of Commerce : Resolution .. .. .. .. 118-9 Interprovincial Service— Pages 40-41 Proposed connection of Melbourne steamor Nos. at Bluff with 6.25 a.m. train, Mondays 120-2