THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3727, 8 December 1927, Page 1

THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

103 NEW. ACTS. The session of Parliament which ended on Monday constituted a record. In the total of 166 days of the session 141 Bills were introduced, and of these 103 reached the Statute Book. They are:—

PUBLIC ACTS. Apiaries. Apprentices Amendment . Appropriation. Ashley River Improvement Amendment. Bankruptcy Amendment. Canterbury College and the Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment. Child Welfare Amendment. Coal Mines Amendment. Counties Amendment. Customs Amendment. Dangerous Drugs. Education Reserves Amendment. Egmont National Park Amendment. Electoral, Electric Power Boards Amendment. ■ Fertilisers. Finance. Finance (No. 2.) ' Fungicides and Insecticides. Government Railways Amendment. Guardianship of Infants Amendment. Howard Estate Amendment. Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Amendment. Imprest Supply. Industrial. Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment. Inspection of Machinery Amendment. Insurance Companies’ Deposits Amendment. Introduction of Plants. Justices of the Peace. Kauri Gum Industry Amendment.

Land and Income Tax Amendment. Land and Income Tax (Annual). Land for Settlements Amendment. Land Laws Amendment. Legislature Amendment. Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment Extension). Local Legislation. Magistrate’s Courts Amendment. Main Highways Amendment. Marriage Amendment. Massey Agrieul- , tural College. Mining Amendment. Mortgagees’ Indemnity ® (Workers’ Charges). Motor Spirits*Taxation. Motor vehicles Amendment. •Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. . Noxious Weeds Amendment. Orchard Tax. Peel Forest Amendment. Police Offences. Post and Telegraph Amendment. Property Law Amendment. Public Service Amendment. Public Service Superannuation. Public Works Amendment. Rent Restriction Continuance. Reserves and Other Lands Disposal. /Rural Intermediate Credit.

Samoa Amendment. Saving Banks Amendment. Seeds Importation, Shops and Offices Amendment. Slaughtering and Inspection Amendment. Stamp Duties Amendmcnt. Stock Amepdment. Summer Time. Tongariro National Park Amendment. Valuation of Land Amendment. Waimakariri River Improvement Amendment. War Disabilities Removal. Wfar Funds Amendment. LOCAL ACTS. Local Blls passed included: — Greytown Trust Lands Trustees Empowering. Hukarere Native Girls’ School Amendment. Hutt River Board (Gear Island) Empowering. Lower Hutt Borough Council Empowering.

Makerua Drainage Board Loan Empowering. Napier Foreshore. Napier Harbour Board Empowering, Loan, and Constitution Amendment. Napier Harbour Board Loans Enabling Act, 1918, Extension. Palmerston North Library Empowering. Petone and Lower Hutt •Gas Lighting Amendment. Wellington City and Suburban Districts Ambulance Transport Service. Wellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amendment. Wellington City and Suburban Water Supply. Wellington City Empowering and A* mendment. Wellington City Exhibition Grounds.

PRIVATE ACTS. Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Amendment. :St. Peter’s Parish Endowment Fund. SLAUGHTERED INNOCENTS. Among the “slaughtered innocents,” were the Bible-in-lSehools, Gaming Amendment, Education Amendment, and Opticians Bills. Twenty-nine private members’ Bills were lost also.