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PARLIAMENT.

NOTABLE SESSION,

ADDITIONS TO THE STATUTE BOOK.

The session just ended has been notable for the number of additions to the Statute Book. All told, 94 Acts were passed by the Legislature, comprising 73 Public Bills, 18 Local Bills, and three Private Bills. The length of the session was twelve weeks and a half, out of which 57 days were occupied by sittings, the daily average being seven hours 20 minutes. The previous session lasted for a day over fourteen weeks, with 58 sitting days, and a daily average of seven hours 13 minutes.

Following are the Public’ Acts passed:— Appropriation. Bank of New Zealand.

'Cemeteries Amendment; Census and Statistics; Kinematograph-film Censorship Amendment; Cook Islands Amendment; Customs Amendment.

Dairy Industry Amendment; Dairy produce Export Control Amendment; Death Duties Amendment; Dentists Amendment; Destitute Persons Amendment.

Education Amendment; Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Amendment; Evidence Amendment.

Family Allowances; Finance; Fire Brigades; 1 Fisheries Amendment; Forests Amendment. Government Railways; Guardianship of Infants. Hauraki Plains; Hospitalse and Charitable Institutions; Howard Estate Amendment; Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Amendment.

Imprest Supply; Imprest Supply (No. 2); Imprest Supply (No. 3); Industrial Societies Amendment. Justices of the Peace Amendment;

Land and Income-tax Amendment; Land and Income-tax (Annual); Land Laws Amendment; Lights on Vehicles Amendment; Local Authorities! Empowering (Relief of Unemployment); Local Bodies’ Loans; Local Elections and Polls Amendment; Local Government Loans Board; Local Legislation; Local Railways) Amendment, Magistrates’ Courts Amendment; Main Highways Amendment; Maori Arts and Crafts; Marriage Amendment; Mining; Motor-omnibus Traffic.

National Provident Fund; Native Land Amendment and Native Land claims Adjustment; Native Trustee Amendment ; New Zealand 1 Agricultural College; New Zealand University Amendment; Nurses and Midwives Registration Amendment. Oil in Territorial Waters.

Peel Forest; Pensions; Police Offences Amendment; Public Revenues.

Rent Restriction; Reserves and Other Lands Disposal; Rural Advances.

Samoa Amendment; Scenery Preservation Amendment; Scientific and Industrial Research; Stamp Duties Aemndment; Swamp Drainage Amendment. ’ Town-planning. Valuation of Land Amendment; Veterinary Surgeons.

W|aiinakariri River ' improvement Amendment; Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Amendment; Westport Harbour Amendment; Workers’ Compensation Amendment.

LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS.

The Local Acts passed included. —Eastbourne Borough Bank Account and Empowering; Napier Harbour Board and Napier Borough Enabling; Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Amendment; Petone Borough Council Empowering; Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Amendment; Wellington City Empowering; and Wellington City Milk-supply Amendment. The principal Private Act passed was the Mildred Elaine Smyth Divorce. BILLS DROPPED. Included in the Bills dropped were the following: —Gaming Amendment; Juries Amendment; Licensing Amendment; Noxious Weeds Amendment; Opticians; Stock Amendment; Summer Time; Tramways Amendment; and Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Loan,

The session ended at 1.5 p.m. on Saturday after an exchange of mutual good wishes and hopes for the success of Mr. Coates at the Imperial mission.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
447

PARLIAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 3

PARLIAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3537, 14 September 1926, Page 3

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