BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1321, 7 November 1914, Page 3

BUSINESS OF THE SESSION.

A SUMMARY. The following are the principal items in the schedule of business transacted by the House of Representatives during the fourth session of the eighteenth Parliament : Public Bills which received the Royal assent, ioi ; reserved tor His Majesty’s pleasure, o ; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 47. Private Bills which received the Royal assent, 2. Petitions presented, 331. Divisions on 52 days of meeting, 78. Hours of sitting, 508 hours 45 minutes, daily average being 6 hours 31 minutes (lowest since 1875). Questions asked of Ministers, 355. acts passed.

The following is the list of Acts passed Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement, Animals Protection, Appropriation, Banking Amendment, Banking Amendment (No. 2), Civil Service Officers Guarantee Repeal, Coal Mines Amendment, Customs Amendment, Defence Amendment, Education, Education Reserves Amendment, Expeditionary Forces Voting, Expeditionary Forces (No. 2), Fire Brigades Amendments, Fisheries Amendment, Friendly Societies Amendment, Fruit Preserving Industry Amendment, Gaming Amendment, Harbours Amendment, Hauraki Plains Amendment, Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No, 4), Imprest Supply (No. 5) ; Imprisonmentjor Debt Limitation Amendment, Inspection of Machinery Amendment, Iron and Steel Industries, Kauri Gum Industry Amendment, Land Laws Amendment, Laud Tax and Income Tax, Legislative Council, Legislature Amendment, Legislature . Amendment (No. 2), Licensing Amendment, Local Railways, Local Elections (proportional representation), Medical Practitioners, Mental Defectives Amendment, Mining Amendment, Mortgages Extension, Mortgages Extension Amendment (No. 2), Municipal Corporations Amendment, National Provident Fund Amendment, National Provident Fund Amendment (No. 2), Native Land Amendment, Native Land Claims Adjustment, New Zealand Loans Amendment, New Zealand University Amendment, Orchard and Garden Diseases Amendment, Patents Designs and Trade Marks Amendment, Pensions Amendment, Port Westshore Road and Railway Public Bodies Leases Amendment, Public Reserves and Domains Amendment, Public Revenue Amendment, Public Works Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Railways Improvement Authorisation, Rangitaiki Land Drainage Amendment, Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Remounts Encouragement, Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering, River Boards Amendment, Road Boards Amendment,' Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Empowering, State Advances Amendment, Taieri Land Drainage Amendment, Taumaranui Hospital District, Trading with the Enemy, Trustee Amendment, Victoria College Amendment, Wages Protection and Contractor Liens Amendment, War Contributions Validation,

War Contributions Validation (No 2), War Regulations, War Risk Insurance, West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment, Workers’ Dwellings Amendment. Local Acts.' —Auckland City and Auckland Harbour Board Empowering, Christchurch District Drainage Amendment, Christchurch Milk Supply and Markets, Dunediu City Council Empowering, Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Acts Amendment, Dunedin City (Waipori Falls) Lands Vesting. EUham Drainage Board, Hull Park Amendment, Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Loan, Onehunga Borough Council Enabling, Riccarton Bush Southland Land Drainage, Takapuna Borough Foreshore Vesting, Tuakitotoand Kaitangata Lakes Amendment, Waitara Harbour Board Empowering, Wellington City Milk Supply Amendment, Whangarei Borough Land Vesting, Whangarei Harbour Board Empowering. Private Acts. Presby ttrian Church Property Act, 1885, Amendment; Methodist Charitable and Educational Trusts Act Amendment. Bills dropped or otherwise disposed of. Cook Island, Cook Islands (shipping), Crimes Amendment, Customs Amendment, Defamation, Election of Ministers and Party Government Reform, Electoral Reform and Compulsory Voting. Factories Act Amendment, Fire Inquests, Fire Inquests (No. 2), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2), Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Enabling, Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Registration, Land Agents Amendment, Legislative Council Reform, Legislature Amendment, Legislature Amendment (right to vote), Lights on Vehicles, Local Grants and Subsidies. Magistrate’s Courts, Master and Apprentice Amendment, Masseurs Registration, Mortgage and Chattel Security, Foreclosure Prevention and Debtors Protection, Motor, National Provident Fund Act Amendment, Native Land Amendment New Protection, Popular Initiative and Referendum, Proportional Representation and Effective Voting, Public Health Amendment, Public Service Amendment, Railway Improved Lands, Religious Instruction in School, Referendum, Right to Work, Shipping Documents During War, Shops and Offices Amendment, Unregistered Nurses Registration.