A BIG STATUTE BOOK.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1915, Page 8

A BIG STATUTE BOOK.

WORK 03? THE SESSION. MEASURES DEALT WITH. The Statute Book for 1915 will be one of the biggest volumes in the records • of the New Zealand Parliament. The session occupied 56 days, and the daily average sitting time was 5 hours 54 minutes. The following Acta were passed:—i PUBLIC ACTS. Alien Enemy Teachers, Appropriation, Arbitration Amendment, Auctioneers Amendment, Births and Deaths Registration Amendment, Census and Statistics Amendment, Civil List Amendment, Coal-mines Amendment, Cook Islands, Cost of Living, Counties Amendment, Crimes Amendment, Dairy Industry Amendment, Defence Amendment, Destitute Persons Amendment, Discharged Soldiers Settlement, Education Amendment, Educatioa Amendment (No. 2), Education Reserves Amendment, Enemy Contracts, Expeditionary Forces, Expiring Laws Continuance, Factories Act Amendment, Finance, Footwear Regulation Amendment, Friendly Societies Amendment, Fruitpreserving Industry Amendment, Gaming Amendment, Hospital and Charitable Institutions Amendment, Hutt Road (No. 2), Imprest Supply., Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No. 4), Kauri-gum Industry Amendment, Lake Coleridge Wat-er-power, Land Laws Amendment, Land Transfer Acts Compilation, Law Practitioners Amendment, Legislative Council Amendment, Lights on Vehicles, Local , Authorities Empowering, Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amendment, Local Railways Amendment, Marriage Amendment, Military Manoeuvres, Miners' Phthisis, Mining Amendment, Mortgages Extension Amendment, Muncipal Corporations Amendment, National Registration, National Provident Fund Amendment, Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment, New Zealand Loans Amendment, New Zealand Society of Accountants Amendment, New Zealand University Amendment, Post and Telegraph Amendment, Prisoners' Detention, Public Expenditure Validation, Public Health Amendment (No. 2), Publio Revenues Amendment, Public Revenues Amendment (No. 2), Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Railways Improvement Authorisation Amendment, Rating Amendment, Regulation of Trail e and Commerce Amendment, Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment (No. 2), Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering, Sale of Food and Drugs 1 Amendment, Savings Bank Amendment, Scenery Preservation Amendment, Settled Land Amendment, Shops and Offices Amendment (No. 3), State Advances Amendment, Statutes Compilation Amendment, Suspension of Disqualification during War, Swamp Drainage, Trading with the Enemy Amendment, Tramways Amendment, War "Funds, War Pensions, War Regulations Amendment, War Regulations Amendment (No. 2), West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment, LOCAL ACTS. Auckland City Markets and Empowering, Bluff Harbor Improvements, Christchurch Electrical Supply Amendment, Devonport Borough Vesting, Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Acts Amendment, Inglewood Borough Endowment Disposal, Lyttelton Borough Extension Amendment, Otago Harbor Board Empowering, Papakura Beach Vesting, Springs County Council Reclamation and Empowering, Tauranga Foreshore Vesting and Endowment, Tokomaru Bay Harbor, Whakatane Harbor Amendment and Empowering, Wellington and Karori Sanitation and Water-supply Amendment, Wyndham Recreation Reserve Amendment. PRIVATE ACTS. Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act, 1879, Amendment; Georgetti Trust Estate. BILLS DROPPED OR THROWN OUT. The Bills dropped or otherwise disposed of, were as under:— Public Bills Dropped,—Betterment, Definition of Time, Expeditionary Forces, Factories Act Amendment (No. 2), Factories Amendment, Gas-supply Amendment, Greymouth Native Reserve, Hutt Road, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2), Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Enabling, Juries Amendment, Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amendment (No. 2), Magistrates' Courts, Military Camps, New Protection, Prisons Amendment, Protection of Mem- , bers, Public Health. Amendment, Sanitation of Theatres, Shops and Offices Amendment, Shops and Offices Amend- : ment (No. 2), Unregistered Nurses Registration. Local Bills Dropped.—Harbor Amendment, Kensington Park Rate Eexemp- ; tion, Liverpool and Raglan Counties, Lyttelton Harbor Board Elections, Ma- , ngawhero County, Moa County, Thames i Borough Council Enabling, Wellington < City Basin Reserve. .