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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITI'I .. i ._____,_._____ l l 1'oaosro, March 5. PRINTING COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Printing Committee was held this morning. Present - Mr. Clarke (Wellington) in the chair, and Messrs. Fraser, Boultcr, Creighton, Deroche, Grange, and O'Duuoghue. Mr. Joan Current, foreman of the Leader, was examined relative to the Government printing contract. He teatified that that office. had the contract tor printing the year before the contract was awarded to Messrs. Hunter, Rose, e Co.; and he claim- ed that the office lost nothing by the con. tract, although their price was eight ccntsper thousand ems for composition less than the present contract prices, and twenty cents lees than the adrenced rates.