THE SESSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2808, 8 November 1924, Page 3

THE SESSION.

91 BILLS PASSED. HEAVIEST STRETCH OF HOURS IN RECENT YEARS. LIST OF WORK DONE. During the session of Parliament which endtd on Thursday, 97 bills were passed and 39 were dropped or otherwise disposed of. The number of hours sat has been exceeded only once in 13 years, and in that one year the average sittings were lighter than this year’s. The list of Acts passed is as follows: PUBLIC ACTS. Acts Interpretation, Amusementtax Amendment, Appropriation. Births and Deaths Registration, British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in N.Z.) Amendment. Chattels Transfer. Coal-mines Amendment, Companies Empowering, Copyright Amendment. Customs Amendment,. Customs Amendment (No. 2). , Dairy Industry Amendment, Dairy produce Export Control Amendment, Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment. Education Amendment, Education Reserves Amendment, Egmont National Park, Engineers Registration, Extradition Amendment. Finance, Fruit Control Government Accident Insurance Amendment, Gaming Amendment, Government Railways Amendment. Honey-export. Control. Imprest supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No. 4), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 3). Land, Land and Income Tax Amendment, Land and Income Tax (Annual), Land Transfer (Compulsory Registration of Titles), Legislature Amendment. Local Authorities Superannuation Amendment Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment. Masseurs Registration Amendment, Master and Apprentice Amendment, Meat export Control Amendwent, Medical Amendment, Mortgages Final Extension, Motor vehicles. Medical Practitioners' A-> niendment) Mining Amendment. Native Land Amendment and Na - tive Land Claims Adjustment, Native Land Rating, Native Trustee Amendment. » Patents, Designs and Trademarks Amendments, Pensions Amendment (No. 2). Police Force Amendment, Police Offences' Amendment, Post and Telegraph Amendment, Poultry, Prevention of Crime! (Borstal Institutions Establishlishment), Public. Works Amendment.

Railways Authorisation, Rating Amendment, Rent Restriction, Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering. ; Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment, Scaffolding and Excavation Amendment. Seddon Family Burial ground, Stamp Duties Amendment. Trustee Amendment. ; ,< War Funds Amendment. LOCAL ACT;S. Auckland City Abattoir, Auckland City and Auckland Museum Empowering, Auckland Electricpower Board Amendment, Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering... ; ' Christchurch District Drainage Amendment. Dannevirke Hospital District, Dunedin City Corporation Empowering. •• Hauraki Plains County Council Empowering. New Plymouth Borough and New Plymouth Harbour Board Exchange New Plymouth Borough Council Empowering, New Plymouth Harbour Board Empowering, North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water supply Opofciki Hospital District. Petone Borough Empowering. Rangiora Borough valuation of Farm Lands for Rating Purposes. South Invercargill Borough Wards Validating, Sumner Borough and Heatheote County (McCormack’s Bay) Vesting. Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering Amendment, Wjanga;nui City Council Special Rate Empowering and Enabling, Wanganui • City Council Vesting and Empowering, Wanganui-Rangitikei Electricpower Board Enabling, Wellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amende ment, Wellington City Empowering and Amendment, .Wellington City Mangahao Endowment -Sale Empowering, Whabatane Borough Empowering. PRIVATE ACTS. Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home, Roman Catholic Archbishop Empowering, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Empowering, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin Empowering, Spiritualist Church of N.Z., Thomas Cawthorn Trust. BILLS DROPPED. The Bills dropped were: — Agricultural Bank. Bills of Exchange Amendment. Dentists Amendment, Dominion State Bank. Election of Ministers and Party Government Reform. Farm Land Mortgage Associations, Footwear Regulation Amendment. Harbours Amendment, Housing Amendment. Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 1), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. A - mendment (No. 2), Insurance Companies Deposits Amendment. Juries Amendment, Justices of the Peace Amendment. Kauri-gum Industry Control. Licensing Amendment, Licensing Poll, Local Legislation. Miner’s Phthisis, Motherhood En- . dowment.. Nationalisation of coal-mines. * Painters*and Decorators Health

Protection, Pensions Amendment (No. 1). Religious Exercise in Schools, Repayment of the Public Debt. Shearers’ Accommodation Amend - ment. Shop and Offices Amendment, Summer Time, Sunday Fishing. ... Unemployed Workei’S. Veterinary Surgeons. Workers’ Compensation Amendment. ’

Awanui Harbour, Awanui Harbour (No. 2). Mangonui Harbour. Newmarket Borough Empowering. Tolaga Bay Harbour Board Empowering Amendment." Wellington City Milk-supply Amendment.