END OF THE SESSION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 October 1930, Page 6

END OF THE SESSION

REVIEW OF REGULATION. DAYS AND HOURS OF SITTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oet. 2d. Although it was forecast that the end of the third session of the twentythird Parliament would be reached some three weeks after the Prime Minister’s departure for the Imperial Conference, this estimate had to be reviewed from time to time, and when the bells finally rang for the last division the session had altogether occupied 17 weeks and three days. The actual days of meeting totalled 71, compared with 82 last year, but the average length of the daily sittings for the .present year was seven hours three minutes, compared with six hours 28 minutes last year. The total number of hours during which the House was in session This year amounted to 500, compared with 530 last vear. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the session just concluded in the way of time occupied or the number of hours during which the House remained sitting after midnight. The following® is a list of the Acts passed during the session :

Public Acts

Apprentices Amendment. Appropriation. Arms Amendment. Births and Deaths Registration Amendment. Canterbury Agricultural College. Census Postponement. Chartered Association (protection o 1 names and uniforms). Coroners Amendment (No. 2). Customs Acts Amendment. Destitute Persons Amendment, i Disabled Soldiers Civil Re-establish-in ent. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amendment. Electric Power Boards and Supply Authorities Association Finance. Finance (No. 2). 1 mprest S iipply. Imprest Supply (No. 2). imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest Supply (No. 4). incorporated Societies Amendment. Judicature Amendment. Kawarau Gold-Mining Amalgamation.

Land and Incojne Tax Amendment. Land and Income Tax (annual). Land Laws Amendment. Law Practitioners Amendment. Local Authorities Empowering (relief of unemployment extension. Local Legislation. Magistrates’ Court Amendment. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum. Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. Native Trustee. New Zealand Institute Amendment. New Zealand University Amendment.

Nurses and Midwives Registration Amendment. Offenders Probation Amendment. Prevention of Crime (Borstal Institutions Establishments) Amendment. Rent Restriction. Reserves and Other Lands Disposal. Slaughtering and Inspection Amendment.

Statutory Land Charges Registration Amendment. Stock Amendment. Tramways Amendment. U nemployment. Waimakariri River Improvement Amendment.

Local Acts

Auckland City Council and Motuilii Island Domain Board Empowering. Bay of Islands Harbour Amendment. Clutha River Board Empowering. '

Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Amendment.

Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment. Dunedin AYaterworks Extension.

Hawke’s Bay Oountv Empowering. H awke’s Bay Rivers Amendment. Invercargill City Fire and Acc-ident Insurance Fund Empowering. Masterton Trust Lands Amendment. Napier Harbour Board Loans Enabling.

Patea Borough Council Empowering. Rotorua Borough Empowering. AVaiapu County Council Empowering.

AVellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amendment.

Wellington City and Suburban AVater Supply Amendment.

Private Acts

Kirkpatrick 3la.sonie Institute Empowering.

London and New Zealand Bank, Limited Amendment. McLean Institute. Managers of the' St. Paul’s Presbyterian Congregation (Oamaru). Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property Amendment.