WORK OF SESSION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 7

WORK OF SESSION

THIRTY-SEVEN BILLS PASSED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

A total of 37 Bills, 36 public and one private, was passed during the session of Parliament that ended yesterday. Though the session extended from March 12, a total of 220 days, the House met on only 60 days, and the average daily hours of 4 hours 55 minutes was the lowest since statistics were first taken out in 1875. The House was in secret session on three occasions. There were only seven divisions during the entire sessession, four being during committee stages of Bills. Petitions presented totalled 74, including 20 from 'Maoris. There were 187 questions placed on the orderpaper, and 188 papers laid upon the table of the House. Select committees presented 172 reports. The following public Bills were passed during the session: Agricultural Emergency Regulations Confirmation, Appropriation, Coalmines’ Amendment, Counties’ Insurance Empowering, Crimes Amendment, Emergency Regulations Amendment, Fair Rents Amendment, Finance, Finance (No. 2), Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Trust, Land and Income Tax Amendment, Land and Income Tax (Annual), Local Elections and Polls Amendment, Local Legislation, Mining Amendment, National Development Loans, Native Purposes, North Shore Boroughs (Auckland) Water Supply, Prolongation of Parliament, Rehabilitation, Reserves and other Lands Disposal, Social Security Amendment, Soil Conservation and Rivers Control, Standards, Statutes Amendment, and War Damage. Local Bills passed were as follows: Auckland and Suburban Drainage Amendment, Auckland Centennial Memorial Park, Auckland Community Welfare Centre and Auckland City Empowering, Awatere County Empowering, Christchurch City Empowering and Special Rates Consolidation, Lower Hutt City Empowering and Rattf Consolidation, Manukau County Council Empowering, and Wellington Free Ambulance. The only private Bill passed was the Boy Scouts’ Association (New Zealand branch) Incorporation Bill. A local Bill that lapsed was the Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Amendment Bill.