ELEVEN BILLS PASSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 231, 30 September 1930, Page 19

ELEVEN BILLS PASSED.

PARLIAMENT'S BUSY DAY.

LONGER WORKING HOURS. REMARKABLE PROGRESS. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Keporter.) WELLINGTON, Monday. ' Remarkable progress with the bills on the Order Paper was made by the House of Representatives at to-day's sitting, no fewer than eleven measures being passed. This acceleration, singularly enough, followed the decision of the Acting Prime Minister, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, to extend the daily sitting hours to midnight, except on Fridays, for the remainder of the session.' The Government bills passed were: National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, New Zealand University Amendment, Law Practitioners Amendment, Judicature Amendment, Offenders Probation Amendment, Prevention _of Crime (Borstal Institutions Establishment) Amendment, Coroners Amendment, Births and Deaths Registration Amendment, Chartered Associations (protection of names and uniforms), Incorporated Societies and New Zealand Institute Amendment. Progress was reported on the Statutory Land Charges Registration Amendment Bill. To-morrow will see the resumption ot consideration of further Estimate classes, including Land and Naval Defence, Post Ofiice Account, Lands and Survey, Discharged Soldiers Settlement, Lands for Settlement and Valuation. Accommodation for Shearers. In view of the assurance of the Minister of Labour that he intends to look into complaints tendered during the evidence before the committee, as well as to consider all matters in the bill, the Labour Bills Committee recommended to the House that the Shearers Accommodation Bill, promoted by Mr. F. Langstonc (Labour. Waimarino), be not allowed to proceed this session. Without Amendment. The Labour Bills Committee recommended to the House that the ScaiVolds and Excavation Amendment Bill and the Apprentices Amendment Bill be allowed to proceed without amendment. . Tangowahine Settlement. , Information relative to the Tangowahine Settlement. North Auckland, was furnished to the House in accordance with a return asked for by Mr. W. E. Barnard (Labour, Napier). The price paid for the land, 4204 acres, which was purchased from Messrs. Coleman and Hawkins, was £37,507, Mr. Coleman receiving £21,438 for 2858 acres, and Mr. Hawkins £10,009 for 140G acres. Seventeen sections of the area of 3302 acres have been taken up. Motuihi Island. The Lands Committee has recommended to the House that the Auckland City and Motuihi Empowering Bill be allowed to proceed without amendment. Rotorua Bill Blocked. In view of the decision of the Local Bills Committee against the measure, the Lands Committee has recommended that the Rotorua Borough Vesting and Empowering Bill should not be allowed to proceed.