PROPOSED BILLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 3

PROPOSED BILLS.

A LONG LIST

The Prime Minister (Rl. Hon. M. F. Massey) on Thursday made an announcement*, regarding the legislative programme for the session. Among the Bills ready for Cabinet decision, he said, were Mining Amendment, Coal Mines Amendment, Prisons Amendment, .Police Offences Amendment, Justices of the Peace Amendment, Magistrate’s Court Amendment, State Forests Amendment, Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment, Primary Industries Promotion, Post and Telegraph Amendment, Police Force Amendment, Statutes Repeal and Expiring Laws Continuance, Public Trust Office Amendment, and Electric Power Works Loan. Ready for introduction were: Educational Purposes Loans, and N.Z. University Amendment.

Measures in preparation included: Undesirable Immigrants Extension, Public Service Superannuation, Land Laws Amendment, Railways Authorisation, the Seeds, Arms, Reserves and Other Lands Disposal, Expeditionary Forces Voting, Divorce Amendment, Public Health Amendment, Housing, Alunicipal Corporations Amendment* Rotorua Township Tenures, Dairy Industries Amendment, Marriage Amendment (British Marriage Act-Imperial Act), National Provident Fund Amendment, Public Works Amendment, Hauraki Plains Amendment, Public Revenues Amendment, Cook Islands Amendment, Shops and Offices Amendment.

In addition there was the Samoan Constitution Bill and clauses tor the "washing up,” Appropriation, and Native Washing-Up Bills. Air Massey mentioned also Bills already ini reduced, including the •Women’s Parliamentary Rights Extension. It would die seen that every moment of (he time was needed to deal with this long list.