PARLIAMENT’S RECORD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2627, 1 September 1923, Page 3

PARLIAMENT’S RECORD.

IMPOSING LIST OF MEASURES. The House of Representatives, during- the session just closed, sat on 55 days, their deliberations occupying 433 hours, of which GO hours were after midnight. The daily average was 7 hours 53 minutes, the highest for ten years. From 1889 to 1913 the sittings averaged over 8 hours a day (1897, 10 hours 10 minutes). The following statistics of the sitting of Parliament have been eoiApiled:— Select committee, 26; public Bills, 93; private Bills, 2; petitions, 200; divisions, 64; questions asked, 436; papers laid on table, 233; reports from select committees, 250. One Bill is reserved for the signature of His Majesty the King—the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act. The following list of measures were passed: — PUBLIC ACTS. The Public Acts passed were: Amusement Tax Amendment. Apprentices. Appropriation. Auckland University College Amendment. Board of Trade Amendment. Chattels Transfer Amendment. Companies Amendment. Companies Special Empowering. Cook Islands Amendment. Customs AmendmentDairy Produce Export Control. Death Duties Amendment. Discharged ...Soldiers Settlement Amendment. Electric Power Boards Amendment. Finance. Fisheries Amendment. Harbours. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment. Immigration Restriction Amendment. Imprest Supply. Imprest Supply (No. 2). Industrial and Provident Societies Amendment-

Insurance Companies’ Deposits Amendment. Judicature Amendment. Justices of the Peace Amendment (No. 2). Land and Income Tax. Land and Income Tax (Annual). Land Drainage Amendment. Municipal Corporations mentNative Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. New Zealand University Amendment. Noxious Weeds Amendment. Public Works Amendment. Rangitaiki Land Drainage Amendment. Registration of Aliens Suspension. Rent Restriction Continuance. Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering. Samoa Amendment. Savings-banks Amendment. Stamp Duties. State Advances AmendmentVictoria College Amendment. War Pensions Amendment. West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment. LOCAL ACTS.

Local Acts passed wei*e: Auckland and Suburban Drainage Amendment. Auckland Harbour Board and 'Cakapuna Borough Council Empowering. Christchurch District Drainage Amendment. Christchurch Domains Amendment. Clutha River Board Empowering. Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment. Manawatu-Oroua River District. Masterton Trust Lands Trustees Empowering. Thames Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Amendment. Wanganui Harbour Board District and Empowering Amendment. Wellington City Empowering and Special Rates Consolidation. Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting and Empowering. Wyndham Recreation Reserve Am'endment, PRIVATE ACTS. Baptist Union Incorporation. St. John’s College Trust,