THE WORK OF THE SESSION

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 259, 9 November 1901, Page 6

THE WORK OF THE SESSION

OFFICIAL RECORD.

'" (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Friday

The following is the official list of the business done during- the session:-— PUBLIC ACTS PASSED. Accidents Compensation. Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement. Appropriation. Arbitration Court President \ alidation.

Cemetery Trustees Validation. Charitable Gifts. Charitable Institutions Rating. Chatham Islands County. Chinese Immigrants Acts Amendment.

Coal Mines Act Amendment. Companies (No. 2). Cook aud other Islands Government (No. 3).

Cornwall Park Duties Exemption Counties Act Amendment. Criminal Code Amendment. Cyanide Process Extension. Education Boards Election. Egmont National Park. Evidence Further Amendment. Exportation of Arms. Factories.

Fisheries Encouragement. Flax Grading- and Export. Government Advances to Settlers

Extension. Government. Railways Department

Classification (No. 2). Imprest Supply. Imprest Supply (No. 2). Imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest Supply (No. 4.) Imprest Supply (No. 5). Inspection of Machinery. Industrial Conciliation and Arbi-

tration Amendment. Land for Settlements Amendment. Lank Tax and Income Tax. local Authorities Indemnity. Local Bodies Goldfields Public

Works and Loans Local Bodies' Loans

Manawatu Railway Sale and Purchase Empowering. Maori Antiquities.

Maori Councils Act Amendment. Maori Lands Administration Act Amendment. Military Pensions.

Miners' Rights Fee Reduction. Mining Act Amendment. Moneylenders. Mortgages of Land. Nelson Harbour Board Act, 19W, Amendment.

Nurses' Registration. j Opium Prohibition. I Old Age Pensions Amendme.;.i- I Pariroa Native Reserve. Payment of Members. Police Offences Amendment. Promissory Oaths. Public Health Amendment. Public Health Amendment (No. 2). Public Schoolteachers' Salaries. Public Trust Office. Public Works Amendment. Physical Drill in Public and Native Schools. Rabbit Nuisance Act Amendment. Railways Authorisation. Registration of Births Extension. Reserves Vesting and Other Lands Sales, Disposal and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering. Rotorua Town Council Validation and Extension. School Attendance (No. 2). Shops and Shop Assistants Act Amendment. State Coal Mines. Timber Export. Trustees Amendment. Victoria College Site. Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration. LOCAL ACTS PASSED. Borough of Mataura Loan Validation. Borough of Mornington Tramways. Canterbury College Empowering Act, 1900, Amendment. City of Auckland Loans Consolidation and Borrowing. Dunedin Waterworks Extension. Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways. Egmont County (No. 2). Featherstone County. Gore Cemetery Reserves Testing and Enabling. Grey town Reserves Vesting and Disposal Enabling. Hokitika Harbpur Board Endowment Act, 1878, Amendment. Inch Clutha Road, River, and Drainage.

Invercargill Reserves Leasing-. Kairanga County. Kiwitea County Council Offices. Lyttelton Borough Council Empow-

ering. Masterton Public Park Management.

Ocean Beach Public Domain Act, 1592, Amendment. Palmerston North Eeserves Act Amendment. Patea Harbour.

Remuera Waterworks Empowering.

Templeton Domain Board Empoweringl. Wellington Harbour Board Act, 1879, Amendment.

Wesleyan Church Reserves Vesting (No. 2).

Woodville County.

PRIVATE ACTS PASSED. Asc'otirton County Council Empow-

ering. Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Rhodes' Trustees

The New Zealand Ensign and Royal Visit Expenses Bills were reserved for the signification of His Majesty's consent.

SUMMARY OF BUSINESS TRANS-

ACTED.

The schedule of busines transacted by the House during the session chows that 2S Select Committees •were set up; ISI public Bills were introduced, of which 97 received the Soyal assent, two were reserved for the signification of the King's pleasure, and 92 were dropped or otherwise disposed of, and three private Hills received the Royal assent; 1286 petitions were presented; 301 papers •were laid on the table; 467 reports •were received from Select Committees: and 783 questions were asked of Ministers. The House sat on 77 days, the daily average sitting being eigh* hours 14 minutes. The House Bat 51S hours before midnight and Jl6 hours after midnight.

PUBLIC BILLS DROPPED. Absolute Majority Vote, -ssion—Take TWO <*ugh(.... Bicycle Dealers" Registration. Charitable Gifts. Companies. Contagious Diseases Act Repeal. Control of Female Employment. Cook and Other Islands Government.

Cook and Other Islands ment (No. 2). Counties.

Govern-

Crown Grants Act Amendment. Crown Tenants' Rent Rebate

Amendment. Cycle Boards. Discount Stamps

District Courts (No. 2). District Courts Act, 1858, Amend-

ment, ! Divorce Act, IS9S, Amendment Eight Hours. Elective Executive. Expiring Laws Continuance. Fair Rent. > Fire Brigades. Food Trusts.

Gaming- and Lotteries Act, 1881, Amendment.

Government Railway Department Classification. Government Railway Superannuation.

Government Railway Superannuation Fund. Hospitals and Charitable Aid Board Election.

Impounding Act Amendment. Impounding Act Amendment (No 2).

Inspectors of Schools. Juvenile Smoking Suppression. Land Act Amendment. Land and Live Stock Auctions. Law Amendment. Law Amendment (No. 2). Libel. Libel (No. 2). Licensing Acts Amendment. Limitation of Profits and Preven-

lion of Rings and Combines. Limitation of Profits and Prevention of Rings and Combines (No 2)

Maori Councils Act Amendment. Medical Practitioners. Mortgages of Land (Is To. 2). Native Land Claims Adjustment and

Laws Amendment. New Zealand University Act Amend-

ment. Orchard and Garden Pest. [ Peddlars and Hawkers. Products Export. Property Law Amendment. Public Health Amendment (No. 2). Rating on Unimproved Values. Rating on Unimproved Values (No. 2). Referendum.

Representation Act Amendment Sale of Preventives Prohibition. School Attendance. Second-hand Dealers. Settlers' Fire Insurance. Shipping and Seamen. Shipping and Seamen (No. 2). Smoking by Youths Prohibition. Stamps Act Amendment. Stamps Act Amendment (No. 2). State Fire Insurance. Statutes Compilation. Statutes Revision. Stud. Totalisator Abolition.

Trading Stamps Abolition and Dis-

count Stamps Issue. Unclaimed Moneys Act Amendment. Workers' Right of Appeal. Workers' Compensation for Accidents.

Young Persons' Protection. Young Persons' Protection (No. 2)

LOCAL BILLS DROPPED. City of Christchurch Electric

Lighting and Loan Empowering. Cook County Vehicle Licensing. Egmont County. Hawera Borough and Public Trus tee Enabling.

Levels and Waimate Counties Boundaries Alteration.

Mackenzie and Geraldine Counties. Omaka Land Investigation. Timaru Harbour District and Harbour Board.

Waimarino County,

Waimate Hospital District,

Waimate Hospital District (No. 2). Wellington City Recreation Ground. Wellington Harbour Board and Corporation Empowering Act, IS9B, Amendment.

Wesleyan Church Reserves Vesting. Westport Harbour Board Vesting.