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Section 5 renews the right of certain persons in the Education service to become contributors to the fund. Section 6 repeals the provisions which restricted the right to receive a retiring-allowance or other payment in cases where compensation was payable under the Workers' Compensation Act in respect of an accident to a contributor to the Public Service Superannuation Fund, the Teachers' Superannuation' Fund, or the Government Railways Superannuation Fund. Section 7 authorizes the permanent appointment to the Public Service of officers who were in the service of the School Commissioners on the abolition of their office ; and sections 8 and 9 increase to £48,000 and £17,000 respectively the annual contribution by the Government to the Public Service and Teachers' Superannuation Funds. 1912, No. 45. The Railways Authorization Act, 1912 : This Act authorizes the construction of the railways mentioned in the schedule to the extent therein specified. 1912, No. 46. The Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 19.12 : The principal purpose of this Act is to remove existing restrictions upon the disposition of certain specified reserves and other lands which cannot be dealt with without special legislative authority. 1912, No. 47. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Amendment Act, 1912 : This Act deals exclusively with advances to local authorities. Section 2 fixes the rate of interest chargeable to a local authority at | per centum more than the rate at which the money was actually raised by the Superintendent. Section 3 authorizes a local authority, without further consent of ratepayers, to raise a loan at a higher rate of interest than that specified in the consent. Section 6 limits and defines the public works in respect of which loans may hereafter be granted, and section 7 provides that preference shall be given to applications for loans for the construction of roads and bridges in outlying districts. Section 8 limits to £60,000 the amount that may be advanced to a local authority within a period of three years. Section 9 provides that in each, of the next ten years there shall be set aside an amount not exceeding £250,000, to be advanced to local authorities for the construction of roads and bridges in outlying districts. In each of the first ten years of a loan granted out of money so set aside, the Minister of Finance is to pay to the Superintendent an amount, equal to 1 per cent, of the loan, and in each of the succeeding five years an amount equal to |- per cent, of the loan. The amounts so paid by the Minister of Finance are to be deducted from the amounts from time to time payable by the local authority in respect of instalments of principal and interest. 1912, No. 48. The Country Telephone-lines Act, 1912 : This Act authorizes County Councils and Road Boards to erect, acquire, maintain, and control telephone-lines connecting with any Government exchange the lands of any ratepayer within the district of the local authority concerned. For the purposes aforesaid, the local authority may raise the necessary money under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908. 1912, No. 49. The Fisheries Amendment Act, 1912 : This Act provides principally for the licensing of whaling-vessels, and also of factories for converting whales into commercial products. The Act also amends the Fisheries Act, 1908, in various respects. 1912, No. 50. The Harbours Amendment Act, 1912 : This Act makes various amendments of an administrative nature in the Harbours Act, 1908. 1912, No. 51. The Monopoly Prevention Act, 1912 : This Act continues the operation of Part I of the Monopoly Prevention Act, 1908, until the 31st December, 1913. 1912, No. 52. The Appropriation Act, 1912: This Act appropriates certain specified sums of money out of the Consolidated Fund, the Public Works Fund, and other accounts, to the services of the year ending 31st March, 1913. 1912, No. 53. The Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act, 1912 : Sections 2 to 12 of this Act apply to New Zealand the provisions of the Imperial Maritime Conventions Act, 1911. The remaining sections make various amendments of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908. The Act is reserved for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure thereon. Local and Personal Acts. 1912, No. 1 (Local). The Tatum Trust Revocation Act, 1912 : This Act revokes the trusts declared in a marriage settlement executed by one Alice Elizabeth Nevin (now Tatum) and vests the property comprised in such trusts absolutely in favour of the said Alice Elizabeth Tatum. 1912, No. 2 (Local). The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Amendment Act, 1912 : This Act removes an obscurity in the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Act, 1910. 1912, No. 3 (Local). The Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Acts Amendment Act, 1912 : This Act authorizes the Dunedin Drainage Board to borrow an additional sum of £100,000, and otherwise extends the powers of that Board. 1912, No. 4 (Local). The Mokau Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1912 : This Act empowers the Mokau Harbour Board, with the consent of the electors, to borrow the sum of £1.000 for the purpose of rebuilding the wharf at Mokau. 1912, No. 5 (Local). The Auckland Education Reserves Act, 1912: This Act provides for the administration by the Public Trustee of certain lands in the Auckland Land District, and for the distribution of the rents and profits thereof for educational purposes. It also provides for the purchase of certain land by the Auckland Education Board to be held in trust as a playground for the public schools of Auckland.