1917 SESSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1917, Page 2

1917 SESSION.

SCHEDULE OF BUSINESS

« PUBLIC BILLS PASSED, 36 DROPPED. The schedule of the business of the House of Representatives and of Bills passed and lapsed during the session, laid on the table of the House on Thursday by the Speaker (Sir F. W. Lang), shows that 21 select committees had been appointed—2o on public matters and one on private Bills. In all 81 public Bills had been introduced, of which 45 had received the Royal Assent, and 38 were dropped or otherwise disposed of. One private Bill received the Royal Assent. The petitions presented numbered' no fewer than 493, 379 being from Europeans and 114 from Maoris. Nine divisions were taken in the whole House and 33 in Committee. The House sat on 80 days in all, the number of hours of sitting before midnight totalling 492 hours 59 minutes,arid the number of hours after midnight J8 hours 52 minutes—making a total of 511 hours 51 minutes, and a daily average of 6 hours 24 minutes. The questions asked the Ministers numbered 682. and the entries in the jourhals 813—a total of 1495, and a daily average of 19. The papers laid on the table of the Hottse totalled 401, and of these 135 were ordered to be printed. The reports from select committees num. bered 326, no fewer than 104 of these being from the Native Affairß Committee.

LIST OF ACTS (PASSED. The following is the list of the Acts passed by Parliament during the ses> Bions Public Acts, Appropriation. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment. Expiring Laws Continuance. Finance Hutt Road Amendment. Imprest Supply Imprest Supply (No. 2) Imprest Supply (No. 3) Imprest Supply (No. 4) Land Laws Amendment , Military Service Amendment New Zealand Inscribed Stock Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment ' Parliamentary Representation (Expeditionary Forces) Adjustment Public Trust Office Amendment registration of Aliens Regulation of Trade and Commerce Reserves and Other Lands Disposal •and iPublic Bodies Empowering. Revocation of Naturalisation River Boards Amendment Sale of Loquor Restriction Shops and Offices Amendment Social Hygiene > State Supply of Electrical Energy Statute Law Amendment War Legislation War Pensions Amendment War Purposes Loan - War Purposes Loan (No. 2) Local Acts. • Christehurcn Milk Supply and Markets Amendment. Day's Bay Sanitation and Water plyDnnedin Waterworks Extension. Foxton Harbor Boards Act 1908' Amendment. Hawke's Bay Rivers Amendment' Manawatu County Loan and Empowering. ; Napier Harbor Board Empowering Nelson Harbor Board Empowering Tauranga Harbor Amendment and Foreshore Vesting, Waimakariri Harbor District Empowering Amendment, Wanganui Harbor Board Vesting Wellington City Empowering Wellington City Trading Departments Reserves and Renewal Funds Western Taieri Land Drainage Wbakatane Harbor Amendment Whangarei Harbor Board Vesting Private Act.—Wanganui Church Acre Act Amendment Act, 1917.