END OF THE SESSION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40023, 14 November 1929, Page 1

END OF THE SESSION.

REVIEW OiF WORK DONE.

After 19 weeks Parliament concluded its business at noon on Saturday. The 'final scenes were of a happy nature anil included the . traditional mock Parliament in which members, with some degree oi: success, amusingly travestied the forms and procedure of the House. As a result of the session the House has passed 34 Government, .19 local, and 5 private Acts. The week, which ended with the closing ’down of the session was one of the most arduous on record for all members. There was an eleventh-hour scurry to finalise outstanding business and to make mp for the valuable time lost earlier in the session when talk and not twofrik was the order of the day.

■" Added interest to proceedings in the House this session was imparted by the peculiar state of the political parties with a minority Government in power. Wjith Labour’s support the Governm|ent retained its hold on the Treasury benches and put on the Statute Book some of its important measures. What the upshot of the three-party system would be was the subject of a question by the Leader of the Opposition, lit. Hon. J. G. Coates, during his valedictory speech. Mr. Coates said Parliament had . pulled through a session surrounded with unprecedented difficulties. Just how the position would work out in the end and how Parliament would get through with the three-party system were matters for reflection and- concern to those interested in the prestige of the New Zealand Parliament,

ADDITIONS TO STATUTE BOOK. Public bills passed during the session, in addition to four imprests, were as follows: —Appropriation, Cinematograph Films Amendment, Counties Amendment, Customs Amendment, Finance, Hospital and Charitable Institutions Amendment, Land and Income Tax Amendment, Land and Income Tax (animal), (Land Laws Amendment, Law Practitioners Amendment. (Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund), Local Authorities Empowering (Aviation Encouragement), Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment), Marriage Amendment, Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment, Native Trustee Amendment, New Zealand University Amendment, Pacific Cable Sale Authorisation, (Patents, Designs and Trademarks Amendment, Products Export Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Rent Restriction Continuance (No. 2), Reserves and Other Lands Disposal, Rest Homes, Rural Intermediate Credit Amendment, Shipping and Seamen Amendment, 'Summer Time, Taupiri Drainage and River District, Town Planning Amendment, Transport Department. The local bills passed included the following: —Auckland and Suburban Drainage Amendment, Auckland City Sinking Funds and Empowering. Among the private bills passed was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Empowering BUI.