THE SESSION'S WORK.

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THE SESSION'S WORK.

SCHEDULE OF BUSINESS.

(PRISS ASSOCIATION TMJtQRAM-) WELLINGTON, December 4. Tiie following is the official statement t>f tlie business done by the House of Representatives during the session, and of Bills passed and lapsed :— Select Committees on public matters, 23; on private Bills, 3; public Bills receired Royal assent, 116; reserved for signification of his Majesty's pleasure, j 1-, dropped or otherwise disposed of, 63; private Bills received Royal assent, t>; petitions presented from Europeans, 739; from Maoris, 65; divisions in the whole Honscj 61; in Committee, 227; days of meeting, 98; daily average of hours of sittings, 8 hours 20 minutes; papers laid upon the table, 327; papers ordered to be printed, 192; reports from (Select Committees, 452; ACIS PASSED. Public Acts. Aid to the Pnblio "Works and Land Settlement. Aid to Water Power Works. Animals Protection Amendment. Appropriation. Auctioneers Amendment. By-laws. Canterbury Collect , and Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment. Census and Statistics. Coal Mines Act Amendment (No. 2). Commercial Trusts Companies Amendment. Contagious Diseases Act Repeal. Counties Amendment. ("rimes Amendment. Crttwn Suits Amendment. Defence Amendment. Districts Amendment. Destitute Persons. Kdueatfon Amendment (No. 2). .Education Reserves Amendment. Exhibitions. Factories Amendment. Foreign Insurance Companies Deposits Amendment. Fruit farms' Settlement. (iaming Amendment. Government Railways Amendment. Government Railwuys Amendment '(No. 2). Harbours Amendment (No. 2). Hawko's Bay Rivers. Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment. Hutt Railway and Road Improvement. Immigration Restriction Amendment. Imprest Supply (six Bills). Inalienable Life Annuities. Indecent Publications. Industrial Conciliation "and Arbitration Amendment. Inspection of Machinery Amendment. Judicature Amendment. Justices of the Peace Amendment. Kaiapoi Reserve. Kauri Gum Industry Amendment. Land Settlement Finance Amendjmerit. Land Tax and Income Tax. Law of Libel Amendment. Legislature Amendment. Licensing Amendment. Local Bodies' Loans Amendment. Mining Amendment. Monopoly Prevention Amendment. Municipal Corporations Amendment. National Provident Fund. Nativo Land Claims Adjustment.' , Native Townships.. j New Zealand Loans Amendment.* New' Zealand Stato. Guaranteed Advances Amendment. Noxious Weeds Amendment. Oaths. Old Ago Pensions Amendment. Opium Amendment. Phosphorous Matches. Post and Telegraph Amendment. Poukawa. Native Resaryo Amendment. . . • Public Debt Extinction. .. Public Health Amendment. I*ublic Holidays. Public Rovonues. IHtblic Works Amendment. . Railways Authorisation. Rangitaiki Land Drainage Rating [Amendment. Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering. River Boards Amendment. Scenery Preservation Amendment. Secret Commissions. Shops and Offices Amendment. Slaughter in c Inspection. Stamp Duties Amendment. Stone Quarries. Taieri Land Drainage. Taranaki Scholarships Endowment. Thermal Springs District. ■ Tobacco Amendment. Town Boards Amendment. . Tramways Amendment. TJrewera Distrjct Native Reserve Amendment. . Waihou. and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement. Workers' Dwellings Acts. . Local Acts. Ohristchurch Tramway District 'Amendment, Gisborne Harbour Amendment, Greymouth Harbour B6ards Loans Consolidation, Greymouth Harbour Board Loans Consolidation Amendment, Hastings Borough Loan Empowering, Havelock Harbour Board Amendment, Horowhenua County lean, Inwrcargill Tramway Buildings and Works Site, Kaitioke County, Lytterton Harbour Board Reclamation and "ISmpoweriDg, Nelson City Drainage and Loan Empowering, New Plymouth Recreation and Racecourse Reserve Amendment, Otago Harbour Board Lands Veetingj Selwyn County SuKlivision, Temploton Domain Alteration of Boundrics, Thames Harbour Board Empowering, Wainpu County Council (Tokoniarc Harbour) Empowering, Wai r liouaiti County Council Reserve Vest-' ing, Waitara Harbour Board and Borough Empowering, Wanganui Harbour Board Vesting, Wellington City Milk Supply, Wellington Harbour Board Empowering, Woodville Borough .Drainage Empowering, Wyndham Show Grounds Reserve, . Christ's College (Canterbury), .Oamaru Harbour Board Enabling, New Zealand Portland Cement Company' (Ltd.) Reclamation and Empowering, Roman Catholic Archbishop-of Wellington Empowering, Wanganui Church. Acre. . BILLS DROPPED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF. Public Bills. Agricultural and Pastoral Society 'Amendment. Beet Root Sugar, Bookmakers, Coal Mines Amendment, EBucation Amendment, Gaming Amendment and Bookmakers Abolition, Halfholiday for Miners in Gold and Coal Minos, Harbours Amendment, Herbalists, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Juries Amendment, Land Laws Amendment, Legislative Council Reform, Legislature Amendment, Local Bodies Loans Amendment, Maori Herbalists and Metaphysicians, Maritime Accidents, Marriage Act Amendment,, Medical Practitioners, Mental Defectives, Mining Amendment, Municipal Corporalions Act 1908 Amendment, Municipal Corporations Amendment, Mutual Accident Insurance, Mutual Fire Insurance Amendment, National Sick and . Accident Insurance, Native Birds Protection, New Zealand Society of Musicians, New Zealand Standard Time, New Zealand State Guarantee Advances Ameudmeni, New Zealand Suggestive Therapeutists Noxioufl Weeds Amendment, Plumbers Eegisfctatjon, an d Telegraph Amendment, iWrty Law Amendment, Pafabe Bm1& Amendment, Public Service »nd Superannuation *]?£?>***&■ ;«*cietration of Barmaids, Sale of J&ckJs Amendment, Shearers AccommediifecHi Amendment, Sbippia« . *nd Seamen ; Amendment, gUugbtenng and Inspection Amend!

ment. Weekly Day of Rest, Westland and Nelson Native Reserves Amendment,' Workers Compensation Amendment. Local Bills. Andersons Bay Domain, City ot Christcharch Electric Power and Loan Empowering Act 1902 Amendment, Ellesmere County, Haiswell County, Heathcote County, Hororata County, Johnsonville School Reserve Amendment, Lyttelton Harbour Board, Malvern County, Napier Municipal Theatre and Buildings, Napier Recreation Ground, and the Sir Donald McLean Memorial Park, Otaki County, Paparoa County, Roslyn Sewerage, Takirau County, Whangarei Abbatoirs Site Repeal, Wliangarei High School Amendment.