WORK OF THE SESSION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11643, 9 August 1916, Page 5

WORK OF THE SESSION.

LIST OF ACTS PASSED. During the session which ended to-day the House of Representatives met on 58 days, and it ant altogether for 385 hours 28 minutes, the average duration of the sittings being 6 hours 38 minutes. No fewer than - 507 questions were asked of Ministers. The following is the official report of the legislative work of the session;— A r OTS PASSED. Appropriation, Cinematograph-film Censorship. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment. , Expiring Laws Continuance. Factories Amendment. Finance. Imprest Supply. Imprest Supply (No. 3). Land and Income Tax. Legislative Council Amendment. Military Service. Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. Orchard Tax. Parliamentary Elections Postponement. Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering. War Legislation Amendment. War Pensions Amendment. War Regulations Amendment. Wellington Methodist Education and Charitable Trusts. Local Acts. Ancklauk City Parks Improvement and Empowering. Auckland Harbour Board Empowering. Christchurch Rating Agreements Enabling. City of Nelson Conversion and Empowering Amendment. Dunedin District Drainage £aud Sewerage Amendment. Gisborne Borough Gas, Invercargill Athenaeum, Napier High School Amendment. Waimakann Harbour District and Empowering. Wairau Harbour Board Loan and Enabling. Wanganui Borough Council Street Access Empowering Amendment. Whakatane Harbour Amendment. Private- Act New Zealand Insurance Company Trust. BILLS DROPPED, j Public Bills Abolition of Night Baking. Abolition of Toll Gates, Baby Bonus, Blind Persons’ assistance, Collection of Small Debts, Commercial Trusts Amendment, Crimes Amendment, (No. 3), Definition of Time, Dominion State Bank, Fatalities Liabilities, Lands Act Amendment (Limitation of Area of Holding), Limitation of Rent during War, Naturalised/Subjects’ Franchise, New Protection, Police Force Amendment, Proportional Representative and Effective Voting, Rent, Rent Restriction, State Bank, Soldiers Voting, Taxation of Unearned Increment on Sale of Lauds, Unregistered Nurses Registration, Venereal Diseases, Von Zedlitz Grant Restitution, War Exigencies and Empire Preservation, War Relief of Soldiers’ Dependents.