THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 4 October 1902, Page 5

THE WORK OF THE SESSION.

During the session that cjosed last night 93 public Bills received the Royal assent, and 84 were dropped or otherwise disposed of. 1 One private Bill received the Royal assent, and one was dropped. The petitions presented numbered 487. The House sat on 57 days. The hours of sitting numbered 462 hours 37 minutes, of whioh 367 hours 52 minutes were before midnight and 94 hours 45 minutes after midnight, while the daily, averagewas 8 hours 7 minutes. BILLS PASSED. Following is ft list of the Acts passed : Public Acts. — Accident Insurance Companies, Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement, Appropriation, Australasian Naval Defence, Bank Holidays, Birds Nuisance, Companies Act Amendment, Cook and Other Islands Government Act Amendment, Courthouse Sites Exchange, East Coast Native Trusts Lands, Electoral, Factories Act Amendment (No.^2), Fisheries Conservation Act Amendment (No. 2), Fisheries Encouragement, Government Railways Superannuation Fund, Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Inebriates Institutions Amendment, Inspection of Maohinery, Kauri-gum Industry Amendment, Land and Deeds Registration. Districts, Land for Settlements Amendment, Landtax and Income, Land Titles Protection, Land Transfer' Amendment, Law Societies, Legislative Council Act Amendment, Licensing Committees and Polls, Local Authorities Indemnity, Local Bodies' Loans Amendment, Manual and Technical Instruction, Methodist Church, of Australasia in New Zealand, Midland Railway's Petitions Settlement, Military Pensions, Mining Act Amendment (No. 2), Motor-car Regulation, Municipal Corporations Amendment (No. 2), Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment, Nelson Harbour Board Amendment, New Zealand University Act Amendment, Old-age Pensions Act Amendment, Opium Prohibition Acb Amendment, Pacific Cable Extension, Pharmacy Act Amendment, Poisons Importation and Carriage 'Amendment, Post and Telegraph Department, Public Health Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Savings-bank Act Amendment (iNo. 2), Second-hand Dealers, Sharebrokers, Solicitors' Bill of Costs, Stamp Act Amendment (No. 2), State Coalmines Amendment (No. 2), Statutes Compilation, Statutes Repeal, Towns Main Streets, Unclaimed Moneys Act Amendment, Victoria College Site, Waihi Hospital District, West Coast Settlement Reserves Acfc Amendment, Workers' Compensation for Accidents Acfc Amendment (No. 2). Local Acts. — Balclutha Reserves and Empowering, Bluff Harbour Board Representation, Bluff Harbour Foreshore Reclamation and Leasing and Borrowing, Christchurch City Council Empowering, Christchurch District Drainage Act 1875 Amendment, Christchurch Tramways District, City of Christchurch Electric Power and Loan Empowering, Dilworth Trustees, Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Act 1900 Amendment, Dunedin Town Belt Roads Closing and Regulation, Egmont County Districts Adjustment, Greymouth Harbour Board Acfc 1884 I Amendment, Hawera Borough Betterment, Hawera Hospital District, Invercargill Corporation Reserve Exchange, Masterton Borough Betterment, Masterton Trustees Empowering, Mount Herbert County, Nelson City Streets and Reserves, New River Harbour Reclamation, North Canterbury Common Hospital Reserve, Oxford and Oust Road Districts Alteration of Boundaries, Pahiatua County Council Empowering, Tauranga Educational Endowment Reserves, Tukituki Bridge Loans ' University of Otago Empowering, Waikokopu Harbour Board, Waimarino County, Weber County (No. 2), Wellington Harbour Board Empowering. Private Act. — Hawera County Electric Lighting. BILLS ABANDONED. Following is the list of Bills dropped or otherwise disposed" of: — Public Bills.— Absolute Majority Vote, Coal-mines Acfc Amendment, Contempt of Court, Criminal Jurisdiction of Justices, Crown Suits Act 1881 Amendment, Crown Tenants' Rebate Act Amendment, Cycle Boards, Destitute Persons Acfc Amendment, District Courts, Elective Executive Referendum, Elective Executive Referendum (No. 2), Elective Legislative Council, Electric Lines 1884 Amendment, Expiring Laws Continuance, Factories Act Amendment, Fencing Act Amendment, Fisheries Conservation Act Amendment, Gasworks Purchase Empowering, Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Pvating Acfc 1890 Amendment, Habeas Corpus Extension, Houseassistants' Half-holiday, Impounding Acfc Amendment, Impounding Acfc Amendment (No. 2), Inspectors of Schools, Juvenile Smoking Suppression, Kaurigum Industry Act 1898 Amendment, Kauri-gum industry Act 1898 Amendment (No. 2), Land Act Amendment, Land and Livestock Auctions, Land for Settlements Amendment, Land Transfer Acfc Amendment, Land Transfer Acfc Amendment (No. 2), Law Amendment, Law Practitioners Acfc 1882 Amendment, Legitimation Acfc 1894 Amendment Libel, Libel (No. 2), Lyttellon Harbour' Board Amendment, Medicat Practitioners, Mining Acfc Amendment, Municipal Corporations Act Amendment, New Plymouth High School Board Leases, Orchard and Garden Pests, Parliamentary Reform Referendum, Pedlars and Hawkers, Police Offences Acfc 1884 Amendment, Poukawa Native Reserve, Products Export, Properly Law Amendment, Public Reserves Act 1888 Amendment, Public Reserves Control, Public Works, Rating Act Amendment, Rating Act Amendment (No. 2), Rating on Unimproved Value, Rating on Unimproved Value (No. 2), Referendum, Representation Acfc Amendment, Rings and Combines Suppression, Road Boards Act lEB2 Amendment, Sand-drift, Savings-bank Profits Act Amendment, School Attendance Act 1901 Amendment, Second-hand Dealers (No. 2), Shipping and Seamen, Shipping and Seamen (No. 2), Shops and Office?, Stamp Act Amendment, State Coal-mines Act Amendment, State Fire Insurance, Stud, Teachers' Superannuation, Tenants' Rights, Use of Public School Buildings, Wellington Harbour Act Amendment, Workers' Compensation for Accidents Acfc 1900 Amendment, Young Persons Protection. Local Bills dropped. — Gore Athcnceum Vesting and Empowering, Lyttelton Waterworks Transfer Acfc 1878 Amendment, Oamaru Endowment Lands Resumption for Mining, Oxford and Oust Road Districts Alteration of Boundaries, Thames High School Borrowing. Weber County, Wevtland and Nelson Coalfields Administration. Private Bill dropped. — Wellington Harbour Board Incorporation 1898 Act Amendment.