WORK OF THE SESSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 6

WORK OF THE SESSION

HOW BILLS FARED AN AVERAGE RECORD The fruits of the past session are 81 public Bills (including 23 local measures), as compared with 101 (including 24 local Bills) during last year's record session. In addition, four private Bills received the Royal assent. Twenty-seven public Bills were dropped or wero otherwise, disposed of. The hours of sitting beforo midnight totalled just under 403, and those after midnight, 50.1, the daily average hours of sitting in a 62-day' session being 7 hours 19 minutes. The session was therefore an average ono both in respect of the volume of business transacted and the length of sittings. BILLS PASSED The list of Bills passed is as follows : Public Acts :—Appropriation, Auckland Grammar School Amendment, Auckland Transport Board, Auckland University College Reserves Amendment, Auctioneers, British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand), Canterbury College and the Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment, Canterbury Provincial Buildings Vesting, Cinematograph Films, Companies Amendment, Copyright (Temporary) Amendment, Dangerous Drugs Amendment, Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Education Reserves, Electrical Wiremen's Registration Amendment, Electric power Boards Amendment, Engineers Registration Amendment, Finance, Government Railways Amendment, Ilanmer Crown ■ Leases, Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment, Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply i'No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2), Inspection of Machinery, Land and Income Tax (Annual), Land Laws Amendment, Local Authorities Empowering (Relief of Unemployment) Amendment, Local Legislation, Magistrates' Courts, Main Highways Amendment, Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment, Mental Defectives Amendment, Motor-spirits Taxation Amendment, Motor-vehicles Insurance (Third-party Risks), Municipal Corporations Amendment, Music Teachers Registration, Native Land Amendment and Native. Land Claims Adjustment, New Zealand University Amendment, Noxious Weeds, Opticians, Orchard and Garden Diseases, Post and Telegraph, Property Law Amendment, Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks, Public Works, Public Works Amendment, Rabbit Nuisance, Religious, Charitable, and Educational Trusts Amendment, Reserves and other Lands Disposal, State Fire Insurance Amendment (No. 2), Statutory Land Charges Registration, Summer* Time (No. 2), Surveyors' Institute Amendment, Surveyors Registration, Swamp Drainage Amendment. Note.—The British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act is reserved for the assent of His Majesty. Local Acts.—Ashburton Water-supply (Lagmhor Creek), Auckland City Empowering, Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance, Buller County Leasing Empowering, Christ church District Drainage Amendment, .Christchurch Hospital Amendment, Ilutt River Board Empowering, Invercargill Borough Council Special Rate Empowering, Johnsonville and Makara Gassupply, Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Enabling, Motueka Borough Council Library, Napier Borough and Napier Harbour Board Enabling, Onerahi : Water Reserve Enabling, Papanui Memorial Hall Management, Thames Borough Loans Rate Adjustment, Tirnaru Borough Empowering, Tumu-Kaituna Drainage Board Empowering, Wairarapa Electric-power Board Empowering, Wellington City Empowering, Whakatane Harbour Amendment, Whangarei Abattoir-site Extension, Whangarei Borough Empowering, Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting. Private Acts:—Christ's College (Canterbury), Church of England Empowering, London and New Zealand Bank, Limited, Methodist Theological College Edson Trust Extension.

Trades Employees' Tools of Trade Insurance, Captive Birds Shooting Prohibition, Compulsory Military Service Repeal, Education Amendment, Expiring Laws Continuance, Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Reports), Law Practitioners Amendment, Licensing 'Amendment, Licensing Amendment (No. 2), Preferential Voting, Religious Kxercjsos in Schools, Right to Work, State. Fh-O' insurance Amendment, Suiiimer Time, Summer Time (Local Empowering), Timber Industrial Effici*ency; Tramways Amendment, Unemployed Workers, Workers' Annual Leave, Workers' Compensation Amendment. Local Bills dropped: Auckland Water-supply, Chnstehurch Tramway District Amendment, Napier Borough Empowering, New Plymouth Borough Council Empowering, Sumner Borough Land Vesting, Wellington City 'and Suburban Water-supply Amendment, Wellington City Milk-supply Amendment.