THE PAST SESSION

Otago Witness, Issue 3214, 20 October 1915, Page 64

THE PAST SESSION

THE BUSINESS DONE. The Statute Book for 1915 will, the Dominion says, be one of the biggest volumes in the records of the Now Zealand Parliament. The session occupied 56 days, and the daily average sitting time was five hours 54 minutes. The following Acts were passed:— PUBLIC ACTS. Alien Enemy Teachers. Appropriation. Arbitration Amendment. Auctioneers Amendment. Births and Deaths Registration Amendment. Census and Statistics Amendment. Civil List Amendment. Coal Minos Amendment. Cook Islands. Cost of Living. Counties Amendment. Crimes Amendment. Dairy Industry Amendment. Defence Amendment. Destitute Persons Amendment. ‘ Discharged Soldiers Settlement. Education Amendment. Education Amendment (No. 2). Education Reserves Amendment. Enemy Contracts. Expeditionary Forces. Expiring Laws Continuance. Factories Act Amendment. Finance. Footwear Regulation Amendment. Friendly Societies Amendment. Fruit-preserving Industry Amendment, Gaming Amendment. Hospital and Charitable Institutions Amendment. Hutt Road {No. 2). Imprest Supply. Imprest Supply (No. 2). Imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest .Supply (No. 4). Kauri Gum Industry Amendment. Lake Coleridge Water-power. Land Laws Amendment. Land Transfer Acts Compilation. Law Practitioners Amendment. Legislative Council Amendment. Lights on Vehicles. Local Authorities Empowering, Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amendment. Local Railways Amendment. Marriage Amendment. Military Manoeuvres. Miners Phthisis. Mining Amendment. Mortgages Extension Amendment. Municipal Corporations Amendment. National Registration. National Provident Fund Amendment. _ Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment. New Zealand Loans Amendment. Now Zealand Society of Accountants Amendment. Now Zealand University Amendment. Post and Telegraph Amendment. Prisoners Detention. Public Expenditure Validation. Public Health Amendment (No. 2). Public Revenues Amendment. Public Revenues Amendment (No. 2). Public Service Classification and Superan* nuation Amendment. Railways Authorisation, ■ Railways Improvement Authorisation Amendment. Rating Amendment. Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment. Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment (No. 2). . Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering. Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment. Savings Banks Amendment. Scenery Preservation Amendment. Settled Land Amendment. Shops and Offices Amendment (No. 3). State Advances Amendment, Statutes Compilation Amendment. Suspension of Disqualification during War. Swamp Drainage. Trading with the Enemy Amendment. Tramways Amendment. War Funds. War Pensions War Regulations Amendment. War Regulations Amendment (No. 2). West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment. LOCAL ACTS. Auckland City Markets and Empowering. Bluff Harbour Improvements. Christchurch Electrical Supply Amendment. Devonport Borough Vesting. Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Acts Amendment. Inglewood Borough Endowment Disposal. Lvttclton Borough Extension Amendment. ■ Otago Harbour Board Empowering. Papakura Beach Vesting. Springs County Council Reclamation and Empowering. Tauranga Borough Council and lauranga Harbour Board Empowering. Tauranga Foreshore Vesting and Endow mont. Tokomaru Bay Harbour. Whakatano Harbour Amendment and Empowering. Wellington City Empowering Act, 1908, Amendment. Wellington and Karon Sanitation and Water-supply Amendment. Wyndham Recreation Reserve Amendment. PRIVATE ACTS. Church Property Trust (Canterbury) Act, 1879, Amendment. Georgotti Trust Estate. BILLS DROPPED OR THROWN OUT. The Bilk dropped or otherwise disposed of were as under: — Public Bilk Dropped.—Betterment, Definition of Time, Expeditionary Forces, Factories Act Amendment (No. 2), Factories Amendment, Gas-supply Amendment, Greymouth Native Reserve, Hutt Road, Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2). Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Enabling, Juries Amendment, Local Elections (Proportional Representation) Amendment (No. 2), Magistrate’s Courts, Military Camps, New Protection, Prisons Amendment, Protection of Members, Public Hpalth Amendment, Sanitation’of Theatres, Shops and Offices Amendment, Shops and Offices Amendment (No. 2). Unregistered Nurses Registration. Local Bills Dropped. Harbour Amendment, Kenaingston Park Rate Exemption, Liverpool and Raglan Counties, Lyttelton Harbour Board Elections, Mangawhero County, Moa County, Thames _ Borough Council Enabling, Wellington City Basin