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Resident Magistrate, Auckland £300 0 0 New Plymouth 200 0 0 Rotorua 175 0 0 Waikato 125 0 0 Hawkes Bay 200 0 0 That it be a recommendation, from this Committee to the House that a respectful address be presented to His Excellency, submitting to him the foregoing resolution.—{Mr. Sewell.) Question put—That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Carried. On the original question being put—Committee divided. Ayes—lB. Noes—6. Messrs. O'Neill Messrs. Mackay L ee Crompton Greenwood Hart Wakefield Ludlam Sewell Forsaith Kelham Monro (teller). Bacot Featherston Gledhill King Brown Cutten Carleton. Picard Rhodes Fitzgerald Wortley Macandrew (teller). No. 5 Question proposed—That it be a recommendation from this Committee to the House to present a respectful address to His Excellency, requesting him to place the cost of treating Native Patients, in the Hospitals of the different Provinces, as a first charge on the amount of £7000 reserved for Native purposes in the Civil List. —{Mr. Ludlam.) Amendment proposed—That it be a recommendation from this Committee to the House, to present a respectful address to His Excellency, praying him to place upon the Civil List a sum not exceeding £600, to be applied towards the establishment of Industrial Schools, and toward other purposes for the benefit of the Natives, in the Provinces of Canterbury, Nelson, and Otago, as nearly as may be in equal proportions.—{Mr. Sewell.) Amendment put—Committee divided. Ayes—l 4. Noes—B. Messrs. Macandrew Messrs. Featherston Sewell Crompton Fitzgerald Bacot Picard Lee King O'Neill Gledhill Greenwood Kelham Forsaith Monro Ludlam (teller). Mackay Weld Brown Cutten Carleton Wortley (teller). No. 6. Motion made and question put—That in the opinion of this Committee the whole management of the Hospitals should be transferred to the Provincial Governments, and that the expense should be divided between the General and Provincial Governments in proportion to the European and Native Patients treated.—{Mr. Fitzgerald.) Committee divided. 3 *v