THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIV, Issue 1225, 24 December 1897, Page 4

THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

The schedule of business of the House during the sessson shows that 24 select committees were set up, and 42 public bills received the Royal assent ; 88 were dropped or otherwise disposed of ; 1 private bill received the Royal assent ; 358 petitions were presented; 155 divisions were recorded ; 381 questions were asked of Ministers ; 216 papers were laid on the table ; 324 reports were received from select committees. The House sat on 51 days, the average daily sitting being 10 hours 10 minutes. The following is a list of the Acts passed during the session :— PUBLIC ACTS. Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act Amendment Appropriation Awarua Seat Inquiry Cheviot Estate Disposition Act Amendment Consolidated StocK Act Amendment Cyanide Process Gold Extraction Explosives Act Amendment Fisheries Encouragement Act Amendment Government Emergency .Loans to Local Bodies.

Govevnmsnt Railways Departmental Classification

Harbours Act Amendment Imprest Supply, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Joseph Houston Land Grant Kapiti Island Public Reserve, No. 2 Land and Income Tax Amendment Land for Settlements Act Amendment Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Members of the House of Representatives Disqualification Mining Companies Act Amendment Native Land Laws Amendment. Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act Amendment

Public School Teachers' Incorporation and Court of Appeal Act Amendment. Sunday Labour in Mines Victoria College Water Supply Act Amendment Westport-Ngakawau Railway Extension Act Amendment

LOCAL ACTS. Bluff Harbour Board Empowering Borough of Lyttelton Corporation Enabling Invercargill Public Offices Site Act (1875) Amendment

. InvercargUl Racecourse Trustees Empowering Kohukohu Foreshore Reclamation Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Napier Municipal Corporation and Napier Harbour Board Exchange of Lands Empowering Otago Harbour Board Wellington Boys' Institute Wellington City Empowering Wellington Education Board Transfer of Reserve Westport Harbour Board Loan. PRIVATE ACT. Hawera Gasworks and Electric Lighting.