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1921-22, No. 54.—The Dentists Amendment Act, 1921-22. —This Act amends in various particulars the Dentists Act, 1908. Section 2 provides that after the 31st March, 1922, no persons other i ban registered dentists and those mentioned in subsection (3) shall practise dentistry in New Zealand. Section 3 defines the expression "practice of dentistry." Section 7 makes special provision for the registration of certain persons engaged in dental work-. 1921-22, No. 55.—The Urewera Lands Act, 1921-22. —This Act gives effect to arrangements entered into between the Crown and the Natives interested in the Native lands referred to in the schedule to this Act for the consolidation and location of interests in such lands and in certain other lands. 1921-22, No. 56. —The Land Agents Act, 1921-22. —This Act is the outcome of nine years' experience of the Land Agents Act, 1912, which it repeals. The term " land agent "is more freely defined than in the repealed Act. Additional restrictions on the licensing and renewal of licenses of land, agents are imposed, and better provision generally is made for regulating the carrying-on of the business of land agent. Barristers and solicitors while in practice as such are prohibited from being the holders of land agents' licenses. Under the Act of 1912 the fee for a license was £5. Fees payable under this Act are to be fixed by regulations, 1921-22, No. 57. —The Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22.—This Act repeals the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and the other enactments mentioned in the Fourth Schedulo to this Act. It not only consolidates the present law, but reconstructs its form and makes a number of new provisions with respect to the protection of animals, the regulation of game - shooting seasons, and the constitution and powers of acclimatization societies. The Act is divided into Parts as follows : Part I, Animals Protection; Part 11, Game; Part 111, Opossums; Part IV, Acclimatization Districts and Societies ; Part V, General. 1921-22, No. 58. —The Government Railways Amendment Act, 1921-22. — This Act amends in various particulars the Government Railways Act, 1908. Section 2 provides a new scale of wages for the Second Division of the Railway service, and section 3 provides for the members of that division to be reclassified. Section 9 makes provision for the appointment by the Minister of a Board of Inquiry as to matters affecting the administration of the Government railways. Section 10 authorizes local authorities to contribute towards the cost of construction or maintenance of railway bridges or subways. 1921-22, No. 59. —The Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1921-22.—This Act provides for the exchange, sale, reservation, and other disposition of certain reserves, Crown lands, endowments, and other lands, validates certain transactions, and confers certain powers on certain public bodies. 1921-22, No. 60.—The Housing Amendment Act, 1921-22.—This Act amends in various particulars the Housing Act, 1919. Section 2 increases the maximum price of dwellings erected under the principal Act. Section 1 provides for the transfer of a dwelling on the death of the purchaser or lessee. Section 5 provides for the recovery of dwellings under tin; principal Act from persons wrongfully in possession. Section 8 amends section 19 of the. principal Act by making it an offence punishable with a fine of £100 for any person to stipulate for, or demand or accept, as a condition of the tenancy of a dwellinghouse payment for furniture or other effects of any sum in excess of tin; fair selling-value thereof. Section 9 provides further grounds for the recovery of possession of dwellinghouses subject to Part I of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, and extends the duration of that Part and the several amendments thereof until the 31st December, 1922. Section 10 imposes certain restrictions on the letting or selling of a dwellinghouse when possession thereof has been recovered on the ground that the premises are required for the landlord's own occupation. 1921 22, No. 61.—The Land Laws Amendment Act, 1921-22. — This Act amends in various particulars the Land Act, 1908, and the several amendments thereof. This Act is divided into Parts as follows : Part I, Pastoral Lands ; Part 11, General. Part I (Pastoral Lands) : This Part, which is to be read as part of Part VI of the principal Act, makes a number of provisions with respect to pastoral lands. By section 5 the term of a lease of pastoral lands is extended to thirty-five years. Section 6 requires lessees of certain pastoral lands to make certain improvements thereon. Section 8 provides for the extension of pastoral licenses where the licensee has suffered substantial loss arising from any general financial stringency. Sections 10 to 12 make provision for acquisition of the fee-simple of pastoral lands and national-endowment land held as pastoral land. Part II (General) : Section 16 provides for the keeping by the Surveyor-General of a standard or standarrls of length of a chain and links, and that measurements of length for the purposes of the Land Transfer Act, 1916, shall be expressed in terms of the chain of 100 links. Sections 17 and 18 provide for the extension of certain leases and licenses. Section 20 imposes a restriction on the forfeiture of Crown lands. 1921-22, No. 62.—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1921-22. — This Act amends in various particulars the law relating to Native land, and confers on the Native Land Court and the Native Appellate Court respectively jurisdiction to hear and determine certain claims and disputes in relation to Native lands. 1921-22, No. 63.—The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1921-22.—This Act amends the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, in various particulars. Section 5 empowers the Court, with the consent of all the parties, to amend an award. Section 7 exempts local bodies, with respect to relief works conducted by them, from the operation of any award or industrial agreement. Section 8 provides an alternative method of filling casual vacancies in the. office of nominated members of the Court. Section 9, which remains in operation

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