WORK OF PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 927, 6 December 1910, Page 2

WORK OF PARLIAMENT.

THE LONGEST SESSION. TWO RECORDS BROKEN. For actual days of meeting, and total duration, the session just ended beats all previous records. This is shown by a return prepared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. The House commenced on June 28th and adjourned 158 days later, thus beating the previous record (152 days in 1907) by six days. It actually sat on 98 days (three more than in 1903, the next best), and the total proceedings occupied 815 hours. The last feature was not a record one, for in 1876 the hours totalled 553, and in 1903 reached the unbeaten record of 855BILLS PASSED. The record of last session’s work comprised the passing of 117 Bills, one of which (the Shipping and Seamen Amendment) was reserved for the Roval assent. Sixty-three Bills were dropped or not taken to the final stage. Excluding the twenty-four local and five private Bills which were adopted, the Public Acts placed on ths statute book this session were as follow : Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement. Aid to Water-power Works, Animals Protection Amendment. Appropriation. Auctioneers Amendment. By-laws, Canterbury College and Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment. Census and Statistics. Coal-mines Act Amendment (No. 2). Commercial Trusts. Companies Amendment. Contagious Diseases Act Repeal. Counties Amendment. Crimes Amendment. Crown Suits Amendment. Defence Amendment. Dentists Amendment. Destitute Persons. Education Amendment (No. 2). Education Reserves Amendment. Exhibitions. Factories Amendment. Foreign Insurance Companies Deposits Amendment. Fruit-farms settlement. Gaming Amendment. Government Railways Amendment.

Government Railways Amendment (No. 2). Harbours Amendment (No. 2). Hawke’s Bay Rivers.

Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment.

Hutt Railway and Road Improvement. Immigration Restriction Amendment, Imprest Supply (six Acts). Inalienable Eife Annuities. Indecent Publications. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment.

Inspection of Machine ry Amendment. Judicature Amendment. Justices of the Peace Amendment. ' Kaiapoi Reserve. Kauri-gum Industry Amendment.

Eand Settlement Finance Amendment. Eand-tax and Income-tax. Eaw of Eibel Amendment, legislature Amendment. Eiceusing Amendment.

Eocal Bodies’ Eoans Amendment.

Mining Amendment. Monopoly Prevention Amendment.

Municipal Corporations Amendment. National Provident Fund. Native Eand Claims Adjustment.

Native Townships. New Zealand Eoans Amendment.

New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Amendment. Noxious Weeds Amendment Oaths. Old Age Pensions Amendment. Opium Amendment, Phosphorus Matches.

Post and Telegraph Amend- / ment.

Poukawa Native Reserve Amendment. Public Debt Extinction. Public Health Amendment. Public Holidays. Public Revenues. Public Works Amendment. Railways Authorisation. Rangitaiki Land Drainage. Rating Amendment.

Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering.

River Boards Amendment. Scenery Preservation Amendment. Secret Commissions. Shops and Offices Amendment. Slaughtering Inspection. Stamp Duties Amendment. Stone-quarries. Taieri I*and Drainage. Taranaki Scholarships Endowment. Thermal Springs District. Tobacco Amendment. Town Boards Amendment. Tramways Amendment. Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment. Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement. Workers’ Dwellings.