A BIG STATUTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 7

A BIG STATUTE BOOK

WORK OF THE SESSION

LIST OF MEASURES DEALT WITH.

The Statuto Book for 1915 will be ono 'of tho biggest volumes in tlio records of the New Zealand Parliament. The session occupied 56 days, and tho daily average sitting time was 5 hours 51 minutes. The following Acts were passed:—

Public Acts. Alien Enemy Teachers. Appropriation. Arbitration Amendment. Auctioneer's Amendment. Births and Deaths Registration Amend-

ment. Census and Statistics Amendment. Civil List Amendment. Coal-mines Amendment. Cook Islands'. Cost of-Living. Counties Amendment. Crimes Amendment. Dairy Industry Amendment. Defence Amendment. Destitute Persons Amendment. Discharged. Soldiers Settlement, Education Amendment. Education Amendment (No. 2). Education Reserves Amendment. Enemy Contracts. Expeditionary Forces. Expiring Laws Continuance. Factories Act Amendment. ■ Finance. . ' Footwear Regulation Amendment. Friendly Societies. Amendment. Fruit-preserving Industry Amendment. Gaming Amendment. Hospital and Charitable Institutions Amendment. Hutt Road (No. 2). Imprest Supply. Imprest Supply-(No. 2). Imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest- Supply (No. 4)-Kauri-gum Industry Amendment. Lake Coleridge Water-power. • Laud Laws Amendment. Land' Transfer Acts Compilation]. Law Practitioners Amendment. Legislative- Council Amendment. Lights on Vehicles. _• . • Local Authorities Empowering. Local Elections (Proportional Represenia-

.tionj Amendment. ■ , Local Railways Amendment. Marriage Amendment. Military Manoeuvres. .Miners Phthisis. ■Mining Amendment. Mortgages Extension Amendment. Municipal Corporations Amendment. National Registration. ' National Provident Fund Amendment. Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. New Zealand Loans Amendment. New Zealand Society of Accountants

Amendment. New Zealand University Amendment. Post .'and-Telegraph Amendment. Prisoners Detention. Public Expenditure Validation. Public Health Amendment (No. 2). I'ublic Revenues Amendment. Public Revenues Amendment (No. 2). Public Service Classification and Superannuation .Amendment. Railwavs Authorisation. . ■ Railways Improvement Authorisation Amendment. Rating Amendment. Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment. _ Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment (No. 2). . Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and . Public Bodies Empowering. Sale-of Food and Drugs Amendment. Savings Banks Amendment. Scenery Preservation Amendment. Settled Land Amendment. Shops and Offices Amendment (No. 3). State Advances Amendment. Statutes Compilation Amendmont, Suspension' of Disqualification during War. ■ ■ Swamp Drainage. , ; ■ Trading with the Enemy Amendment.

Tramways Amendment. War Funds. AVar Pensions. War Regulations Amendment. War Regulations Amendment (No. 2). ■West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment. Local Acts. Auckland City Markets and EmpowcrJ ng. Bluil' Harbour Improvements. Chrislchurch Electrical Supply Amendment. Devon port Borough Vesting. DuiiciHn District .Drainage and Sewerage Acts Amendment. . Ingewood Borough Endowment, Disposal. LyttelUm Borough Intension Amendment. Otago Harbour Board Empowering. l'apakuro Beach Vesting. Springs County Council Reclamation arid Empowering. Tauranga Borough Council and Tauranga llavbour Board Empowering. Tauranga Foreshore Vesting and Endowment. - Tokomaru Bay Harbour. AVhakatane Harbour Amendment and Empowering. . Wellington City Empowering Act, 1908, Amendment. Wellington and Karori Sanitation, and Water-supply Amendment. Wyiidliam Recreation Reserve Amendment. Private Acts. Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act, 1879", Amendment.. Gcorgetti Trust Estate. Bills Dropped or Thrown Out. The Bills dropped or otherwise disposed of were as under:— Public Bills dropped.—Betterment, Definition of Time, Expeditionary Forces, Factories Act Amendment (No. 2), Factories Amendment, Gas- supply Amendment, GreymOuth Native .Reserve, Hiitt Road, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Industrial Conciliation, and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2), -Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Enabling, Juries Amendment, Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amondment (No. 2), Magistrates' Courts, Military' Camps, New Protection, Prisons Amendment, Protection of Members,-Pub-lic Health Amendment, Sanitation of theatres, Shops and Offices Amendment, Shops and Offices Amendment (No. 2), Unregistered Nurses. Registration. Local Bills Dropped.—Harbour Amendment, Kensington. Park Rate Exemption, Liverpool and Raglan Counties, Lyttelton Harbour Boaffd Elections, Jlangawhero County, Jloa County, Thames Borough CouncU'Enabling, Wellington City Basin Reserve.