1917 SESSION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9807, 2 November 1917, Page 5

1917 SESSION

SCHEDULE OF BUSINESS 45 PUBLIC BILLS PASSED, 36 DROPPED. The schedule of the business of thß House of Representatives ami of Bills passed and lapsed during the session, laid on the table of the Rouse yesterday by the Speaker (Sir IV VT. Lang), shows that;2l select committees had •been appointed—2o on public matters and one on private Bills. In all 81 public Bills had been introduced, of which 45 received lire Royal Assent, and 33 wore dropped or otherwise disposed of. One private Bill.received the Royal Assent. The petitions presented numbered no fewer than 493, 379 being from. Europeans and 114 from Maoris. Niue divisions were taken iiv tho whole Rouse and 33 in Committee. The Rouse sat on 80 days in all, the number of hours of sitting before midnight totalling 492 hours 59 minutes, and the number of hours alter midnight 18 hours 52 minutes —making a total of 511 hours 51 minutes, and a daily average of 6 hours 24 minutes. The questions asked of Ministers numbered 682, and the entries in the journals 813—a total 1495 and a daily average of -19.--Tlio papers laid on the table of the Rouso totalled 401, and of these 135 wore ordered to be printed. The reports from select committees numbered 326. no fewer than 104 of these being from the Nativo Affairs Committee. LIST OF ACTS PASSED. Tie following is the list of the Acts passed by Parliament during tho session i Public Acts. Appropriation. Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment. Expiring Laws Continuance. Finance. TTutt Road Amendment. • ■ imprest Supply. Imprest Supply (No. 3). imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest Supply (No. 4). Land Laws Amendment. (Military Service Amendment. New Zealand Inscribed Stock. Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. Parliamentary Representation (Expeditionary Forces) Adjustment. Public Trust Office Amendment. Registration of Aliens. Regulation of Trade and Commerce. Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Empowering. Revocation of Naturalisation. River Boards Amendment. Sale of Liquor Restriction. Shops and Offices Amendment. Social Hygiene. State Supply of Electrical Energy. Statute Law Amendment. War Legislation. War Pensions Amendment. War Purposes Loan. War Purposes Loan (No,. 2). Local Acts. Christchurch Milk Supply and Markets Amendment. Day's Bay Sanitation and Water Supply. Dunedin Waterworks Extension. Foxton Harbour Boards Act 1908 Amendment.Haiwke's Bay Rivers Amendment. Miauawatii County Loan and Empowering. Napier Harbour Board Empowering. Nelson Harbour Board Empowering. Tauranga Harbour Amendment and Foreshore Vesting. Waimafcariri Harbour District Empowering Amendment. Wanganui Harbour Board Vesting. AVellmgton City Empowering. Wellington City Trading Departments Reserves and Renewal Funds. Western Taieri Land Drainage. Whskatane Harbour Amendment. Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting. Private Act —Wanganui Church Acre Acf Amendment Act. 1917.