SESSION OF 1905.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5734, 1 November 1905, Page 7

SESSION OF 1905.

THE BUSINESS. Tlio House sat on 78 days, of which 630 houiK 14 minutes wore lie fore .midnight and 135 hours 37 minutes after midnight, a local of 505 hours 51 minuter, and an average of 8 hours 38 minutes. Tho bills that received the Royal .assent numbered 10G, two are reserved for the signification of his ■Majesty’s pleasure, and 98 were dropped or otherwise disposed of, a total of 206 bills. The petitions received from Europeans numbered 559, and from '•Maoris 115, total 074; 1048 questions were asked from Ministers; 329 papers wero laid! on tho table; 218 papers were ordered to be printed; 480 reports wero received from Select Com* rnittccs.| ' ACTS PASSED. Following is tho list of tho acts passed:— KESEBVED FOB THE ASSENT OP HIS MAJESTY. Marriages Validation. Shipping and Seamen Act Amendment. PUBLIC ACTS. Agricultural Implements Manufacture, Importation, and Sale. Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement, Appropriation, Australian and New Zealand Naval Defence. Bills of Exchange Act Amendment. Canterbury Agricultural College, Civil Service Classification, Coalmines Act Compilation (No. 2), Commissioners Act Amendment, Convicts Forfeitures Act .Amendment, Criminal Code Act Amendment, Criminal' Code Amendment. (No 2). Destitute Persons Act Amendment. Education Act Amendment (No. 2), Education Reserves, Electoral (No. 2), Ellesmere Land Drainage, Epuni Lenses Surrender, Evidence. Factories Act Amendment (No. 2). Gerhard John Mueller Enabling, Government Advances to Settlers (No. 3), Government Railways Act Amendment. Eorowbenua Lake (No. 2), Hivtt Rail. Way and Road Improvement. Imprest Supply, Imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No. 4), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts Compilation. Kaiapoi Native Reserves (No. 2). Land Tax and Income Tax. Maori Land Settlement (No. 2), Medical Practitioners’ Registration, Mining Acts Amendment, Mining Acts Compilation, Motor Registration, Mutual Fire Insurance Act Amendment. Native Townships Local Government, New Zealand International Exhibition Empowering. Offensive Publications, Old Age Pensions Act Amendment. Property Law, Public Trust Office 'Amendment, Public Works Act Amendment, Public Works Acts Compilation. Queenstown Reserves. Road Boards Act .Amendment. Sentry Hill-New Plymouth Railway Deviation, Shops and Offices Act Amendment, Stamp Act Amendment, Statutes Compilation Act Amendment. Taranaki _ Scholarships (No. 2), Taumutn Native Commonage, Teachers’ Superannuation,Timber and Flax Royalties. Victoria College. Waikaka Branch Railway, Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Workers’ Dwellings (No, 2), Workers’ Dwellings Act Amendment. “ LOCAL ACTS. Auckland Cemetery Bridge and City Borrowing, Auckland Harbour Board and Devonport Borough Council Empowering, Auckland Harbour Board Empowering, Auckland Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1904 Amendment, Auckland Hospital Acts Amendment, Auckland Waterworks Loans, Sinking Funds, and Borrowing Act Amendment. Borough of Birkenhead Enabling. Canterbury College Empowering, Christchurch District Drainage Act 1875 Amendment. Dannevirke Education Reserve Transfer, Dilworth Trustee Act 1902 Amendment, Dunedin City and Suburban Tramways and Water-power Act 1903 Amendment, Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage. Eastbourne Borough, Education Board of the District of Otago Empowering (No. 2), Eltham Borough Drainage and Water-Supply Empowering, Eltham Public Hall. Gisborne Harbour Consolidation.

Havelock Commonage, Havelock Harbour Board, Hokitika Harbour Act Amendment.

Invercargill Cemetery Vesting. Lyttelton Borough Council Foreshore Vesting, Lyttelton Harbour Board

Land. Mastcrton Public Park Extension, Masterton Trust Lands Trust Empowering, Motucka Harbour Board. Nelson Harbour. Oamaru Atbcnaoum and Mechanics’ Institute, Oamaru Borough Council Loan, Oamaru Volunteer: Drilluhcd

Site, Otago Harbour Board Empowering Act 1903 Amendment. Oxford Road District. . T , , Pacroa Domain Loan Validation, ia.morston North High School Reserve, Rctono and Hutt _ Corporation, Pctone Borough Empowering, i'etono Corporation 'Waterworks. Tapanui Commonage Reserve, iimaru Borough Drainage, Sewerage, and Loans. Wallace Hospital District, Wanganui Harbour Board Empowering, VelUngton City Streets Amendment Wellington Hospital Contributors and Society for Relict of tlie Aged Needy Exchange. BILLS DROPPED. Absolute Majority Vote, Accountants, Agricultural Teiuinc- Rignt, Animals Protection, Apiaries. Bible Lessons in Public Schools Plebiscite. ~ , Goal Mines Act Amendment, Coal Mines Act Compilation, Civil Service Superannuation, Counties Act A monument, Crown Suits Amendment. Divorce Act Amendment. Education Act Amendment, Education Board of tho District of Otago Empower! m'. Education Boards Election, Education Reserves (No. 2), Egmont National Park, Election of School Committecs Act Amendment, Elective Executive, Electoral, Electric lanes Act Amendment, Excessive .Rates of Interest Prevention. Factories Act Amendment, Farriers, Pino Brigades, Fire Brigades (No. 2), Fisheries Conservation Act Amendment, Flour Duty Abolition. Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Government Advances to SotHors. Habitual Criminals, Horowhonua Lakr, Hmwhcnua Block Act Amendment, Horowhonua Block Act A monelmont (No. 2), Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards Elections. . Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland). Juvenile Offenders. Kaiapoi Native Reserves. Lanins on Vehicles, Landless Natives Bill Land Settlement Act Extension, Law Practitioners Act Amendment, Legislative Council Election, Lincoln College Reserves (No. 1), Local Rothes’ Leases. Local Bodies’ Loans Act Autepdmont Local Government Franchise. Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment, Maori Bauds Councils, Maori Land for Settlement, Members of Education Boards Election, Mental Hospitals, Methylated Spirits, Municipal Corporations Act- 1900 Amendment, Municipal Corporations Amendment. Native Tenants’ Relief, Native Township Act Amendment, New Zealand Cooperative Manufactures Encouragement, New Zealand Manufactured Goods Marking, Noxious "Weeds Act Amendment. Old Ago Pensions. Palmerston North Dairying School, Plumbers’ Registration, Police Offences Act Amendment, Post Office Act Amendment, Pos’t Office Act _ Amendment (No. 2), Poukawa Native Reserves, Prisons Act 18S2 Amendment, Private Hospitals. Rabbit Nuisance, Rating Act Amendment, Rating on Unimproved Value Amendment, Rating on Unimproved Value Amendment (No. 2), Referendum. Sale of Food and Drugs, Scenery Preservation Act, Amendment, Seeds Examination, Seeds Examination (No. 2), Second Ballot, Slaughtering and Inspection Amendment, Slaughtering and Inspection Amendment (No. 2)_, State Coal Mines Act Amendment, Statutes Repeal, Sugar and Tobacco Duties Abolition, Supremo Court Judges’ powers. Taranaki Scholarships,Tourist, Health, and Scenic Resorts Control, Town Districts, Town Districts (No. 2), Trade Monopolies Prevention. Veterinary Surgeons’ Registration. I.OCAI. BILLS DROPPED. Havelock Athenaeum and Mechanics’ Institute Incorporation, Hokitika Harbour Acts Amendment (No. 2), Horowhenua Hospital District, Wanganui Suburbs Lighting Act 1903 ■ Amendment, Waimato North County, Wail mate Hospital District.