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required for all enactments. The customs tariff of New Zealand is enforced. The annual death-rate is higher than the birth-rate in the islands. Chief products — copra, coffee, pearl-shell, fruit, hats nnd caps, and lime-juice. The trade for 1911 was : — Imports into New Zealand, 92,382^. ; Exports from New Zealand, 56, 131 L

Kermadec Islands, 36° S., 178° 30' W., 600 miles NNE of New Zealand. Area 15 square miles. Population (1911) 4 persons. The largest of the group is Raoul or Sunday Island, 20 miles in circuit ; ]\Iacaulay Island is 3 miles in circuit.

Small uninhabited islands are : The Campbell Islands, the throe King's Islands, Campbell Island, the Antipodes Islands, and the Bounty Islands.

Books of Reference.

Annual statistical Register, Blue Book. Annual Official Year-book

Bibliography of the Literature relating to New Zealand. By T. M. Hocken. Wellington,

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Census of New Zealand, taken on the 2i>t)i of April, 1906. AVellington, 190S.

Report on the Results of Census, 1906. WeUington, 1908.

New Zealand Official Year-book. Annual. Wellington. Report of the Department of Lands and Labour. Annual. Wellington. Annual Reports on Mining.

Broio7i(J. M.), Maori and Polynesian. London, 19U7.

Elkington (E. W.), Adrift in New Zealand. London, 1906.

Fox (Sir W.), The War in New Zealand. London, 1S6G.

Gishorns (W.), New Zealand Rulers and Statesmen (1844-97). London, 1897.

Grey (Sir G.), Polynesian Mythology and Maori Legends. 1885.

Hamilton (Capt.). Trout Fishing and Sport in Maoriland. Wellington, 1904.

Hocken (T. M.), Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand (Otago). London, 1898.

Irvine (R. F.) and Alpers (O. T. J.), The Progress of New Zealand in the Century. London, 1902.

Lloyd (H. D.), Newest England. London, 1901.

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McFab (R.) (Editor), Historical Records of New Zealand. Wellington, 1908.

Manvig (F, E.), Old New Zealand, Pakeha-Maori. London, 1884.

Pennt father (F. W.), Handbook (Murray's) for New Zealand. London.

Rees (W. L.), The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London,

1892.

Reeves (Hon. William Pember), The Long White Cloud. 2nd. ed. London, 1900. State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand. 2 vols London, 1902.

Bus(ig7i(G. W.), The History of New Zealand. New ed. 3 vols. Melbourne, 1896.

Siegfried (A.), La Deniocratie en Nonvelle Zelande. Paris, 1904. St >ut (Sir R.), and Stout Logan (J.), New Zealand.

(Sir R.), and Stout Logan (J.), New Zealand. London, 1911.

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White (John), Ancient History of the Maori. 6 vols. London, 1889.

Whitmorc (Sir G.), The Last Maori War in New Zealand under the Self-Reliant Policy. London, 1902.

[Official and many other books and newspapers may be seen at the office of the High Commissioner in London.]

FIJI. Constitution and Government.

Fiji was ceded by the chiefs and people of Fiji on October 10, 1874, The government is administered by a Governor appointed by the Crown, assisted by an Executive Council consisting of the Chief Justice, Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Native Commissioner, the Hon. A. R. Coates, Agent-General of Immigration, and the Hon. E,. S, D. Rankine, Receiver- General. Laws are passed by a Legislative Council, of which the Governor is president. It comprises ten official members, six elected members, and two native members.