LEGISLATIVE TASKS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13803, 1 October 1915, Page 8

LEGISLATIVE TASKS.

TWEMTY-EIGHT BILLS? ifeßE PASSED. WHEN WILL THE Sj&SSIQN. /END ? (From Our- jfiatllamentary. Reporter*! WELLINGTON, this, day... Parliament hopes to end its work; for the session by the. middle of next week, and. the Prime Minister, m announcing what he expects to get done, suggests that seven . Bills . a day can, easily, be passed. He assured the House,. that H was not his intention to submit 1 ' any contentious legislation ;. consequently, one \ clause m the Land Bill now before the; House would not be pressed. The clause affected the Westland and BiQler'dis: .tricts. The Public Work^ Statement would be introduced oh Friday, , and possibly discussed the same night, and he hoped to see business o^er by Wednesday. ■ ..'. . '" " . •" " The Prime Minister enumerated the following Bills which _tlie GdVernment wishes to pass this session: \ Friendly Societies Amendment, Education Re--.serres Amendment, Alien Enemy) Teachers, Dairy Industry Amendment, Prisons Amendment, Destitute-Persons' Amendment,". Counties' Amendment, .Footwear' Regulation Amendment, Miners' Phthisis, Mining Amendment, (Coalmines Amendment, Local Elections ?Proffortional; Representation)* Amendment, Ne^v Zealand Society of Aoxiountants Amendment, Land Lawsv Amendment. ■ < . ' ' ,FORTHCOft£ING MEASURES ;. . THE j WHARF TROUBLE; .other. Bills, -.not. yet., on tlte order paper, the Prime Minister said the usual "Washing Up, Bill, would be of enormous proportions.' Ther&" wae, to be a Commercial Trusts -Rill, ■dealing, with the cost of living, md, a, small i amendment erf the Arbitration- Act, deal- ] ing with what certain members, had described as victimisation .©ri r the Auck.- --' land and Greyniouth wharTca.,: The Bjljl would enable the cases to bfe urQtGpced.fai appeal to the Ai-bitratioiVl J >"4^ iMaii^t trate's Court." Other Bills ,we^e vis Native "Washing-up' • >-Bill, , West - Cpast Settlement Reserve -"Bill, dealing with races, a> EjapuclpKUsi Bill of twa clauses, Public Service .Supera.nnua.tkm* Amendment, tMunicipaL Corporations Amendment, a one-olauie Defence Bill;^ 'dialing' with, the^^TationaA Reserve, a small Bill dealing with'~juie Post Office, ahDther^dealing" with a difficulty which liad "erb'pped up ; m .'ii&nnection with the Te Orange Iridpstrial School, Christchurch, a Wfarv R*gulA;i lions Bill, and a measure authorising the \ granting of university degrees to men i •who hac\ enlisted, but, who, under; nonflaj circumstances, would have been £ble to present themselves for, examination. "I don't B>y these are aIU Bills,'' raided the Prime Minister, amid -amiles, which developed to a roar of merriment when he promised that at alj .evettts tKe*e were all whiph the Qoyerniperit .would proceed with. - N The only measures excluded from .the favored list, were .the. Greymouth Native Reserve Bill and Juries Amendment Bill, whicfe th£Jßrime Minister described a« unnecesary,, and the Prisoners' Detention Bill and* Local Elections Proportional Representation Bill, which were said to hi«rfr. ft^dqubtful chance of^inclusion m this «esnon's ' programme. . '.....