THE SESSION'S WORK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3016, 12 October 1908, Page 5

THE SESSION'S WORK.

BILLS PASSED AND DROPPED.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 11. The following is a synopsis of the business transacted by the House of Representatives, and of Bills passed and dropped during the session:— Ninety-nine public Bills received the Royal Assent, 43 were dropped, and 2 were reserved for signification of His Majesty's pleasure. Thirty-six local Bills were passed, and 6 dropped. Two private Bills received the Royal Assent.

Four hundred and eighty-one petitions from Europeans and 180 from Maoris were presented. The H juse sat on 59 days, 419 hours 24 minutes before midnight, and 57 hours 19 minutes after midnight, or an average of 8 hours 6 minutes daily. Ministers were asked 816 questions, and 1,137 entries were made in journals.

The following is a list of the. Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Zealand, 1908:—Public Acts passed—Acts Interpretation Amendment, Agricultural Produce Sale and Importation, Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Appropriation, Auckland University College, Canterbury College Empowering, Civil Service Amendment, Coal Mines Amendment, Consolidated Statutes Enactment, Coroners Amendment, Counties Act 1886 Amend- / ment, Declaratory Judgments, Defence Amendment, Destitute Persons Act Amendment, Education Amendment, Education Reserves Leases Validation and Empowering, Fire Brigades Amendment, Fisheries Amendment, Impounding Amendment, Imprest Supply (No. 1), Imprest Supply (No, 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No. 4), Incorporated Societies, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Infants Amendment, Inspection of Machinery Amendment, Justices of Peace Amendment, Land Drainage Amendment, LandJTax and Income Tax, Local Authorities Indemnity, Local Authorities"Superannuation, Local Bodies Loans Amendment, Local elections Act Amendment, Maori Land Laws Amendment, Meikle Acquittal, Mental Hospitals Reserves, Monopolies Act Amendment, Naval Subsidy, N.Z. Society of Accountants, Old Age Pensions Amendment, Palmerston North Dairy School, Police Offence's Amendment, Public Bodies Leases, Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment, Public Works Amendment, Quackery Prevention, Railway- Authorisation, Second Ballot, Stamp Duties Amendment, Taupo N0.2 Block, Town Boards Amendment (No. 3), Town Districts Amendment, Validation Court Empowering, Valuation of Land Amendment, Waipuka Block Road, Wellington and Manswatu Railway Purchase, Workers Compensation. Puiilic Acts Dropped.—Alteration of -Time, Auctioneers Amendment, Companies Amendment, Corporations Contracts?, Counties Amendment (No. 2). (No. 2), Flour Duty ab'Jiiioi!, F/ie'uily''SocietiesConsolidation, Government Advances to Workers, Hours of Underground Workers, Inferior Courts Procedure, Lamps cn Vehicles, Law Practitior2rs Amendment, Law Practitioners Amendment (No. 2), Licensing Polls Absolute Majority, Maori La- d Laws Amendment, Marriages Amendment, Marriage Validation Act Amendment, Mining Amendment, Municipal Corporations Act 1900 Amendment (No. 2), Musicians, Pawnbrokers Charges, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Public Holidays, Public Revenues Amendment, Public Works Amendment Act, Pub'ic Works Amendment (No. 2), Second Ballot, Secret Commissions, Shearers Accommodation, Workers Compensation for Accidents.