WORK OF PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 6

WORK OF PARLIAMENT

ACTS PASSED AND BILLS DROPPED. The session of the Parliament of New Zealand for 1916 ended with the rising of the House at noon yesterday. It was well understood beforfe the House met that the session would be an important cne, but it was hoped that it would be a short one. The session developed, however, into one of nearly average length. Tho House sat from May 9 to August 8. It met for .the transaction of business on 58 days, and it satior 385 hours 28 minutes. Following is a record of business done' Public Acts. Appropriation, Cinematograph Film Censorship, Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Amendment, Expiring Laws Continuance, Factories Amendment, Finance, Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Land and Income Tax, Legislative Council Amendment, Military Service, Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment, Orchard Tax, Parliamentary Elections Postponement, Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering, War Legislation Amendment, -JVar Pensions Amendment, War Regulations Amendment, Wellington Methodist Educational and Charitable Trusts. Local Acts. . Auckland City Parks Improvement and Empowering, Auckland Harbour Board Empowering, Christclrarch Rating Agreements Enabling, City of Nol,son Loans' Conversion and Empowering Amendment, Dunedin District Drainage and. Sewerage Amendment, Gisborne Borough Gas, Invercargill Athenaeum, Napior High School Amendment, Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering, Wairau Harbour Board Loan and Enabling, Wanganui Borough Council Street Access Empowering Amendment, Whakatano Harbour Amendment. . . Private Act. . New Zealand Insurance Company Trust. Bills Dropped. Abolition of Night Baking, Abolition of Toll-gates, Baby Bonus, Blind Persons Assistance, Collection of Small Dobts, Commercial Trusts Amendment, Crimes Amendment, Crimes Amendment (No. 2), Definition of Time, Dominion State Bank, Fatalities Liabilities, Lands Act Amendment, Limitation of Area of Holding, Limitation of Interest Rates during War, Limitation of Rent during War, Naturalised Subjects' Franchise, New Protection, Police Force Amendment, Proportional Representation and Effective Voting, Rent, Rent Restriction, State Bank, Soldiers' Voting, Taxation of Unearned, Increment on Sale of Lands, Unregistered Nurses' Registration, Venereal Diseases, Von Zedlitz Grant Restitution, War Exigencies and Empire Preservation, War Relief of Soldiers' Dependants, Hutt Park Amendment, Mangawhero Countv, Napior Harbour Board Empowering and Vesting, Otaua Land Drainage, Thames Harbour Board Act, 1890, Amendment, Wairoa Harbour Board Endowment.