1917 SESSION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14446, 5 November 1917, Page 7

1917 SESSION.

/ SCHEDULE OE BUSINESS. • Tlie schedule of the business of the House of Representatives and of Bills passed and lapsed during the session, ! laid on the table of the House by the (Speaker (Sir F. W. Lang), shows that 21 select committees had been appointed j — 20 on public matters and one on prijvate Bills. In' all 81 public Bills had i been introduced, of which 45 received the Royal Ass*m *■- and 36 were dropped 'or otherwise disposed of. One private ! Bill received 'tlie Royal Asserit. The ' petitions presented) number no fewer than 493, 379 .being from Europeans and 114 from Maoris. Nine divisions were taken m the 'whole House and 33 m Committed. The House sat on 80 days m all, the number of • hours of sitting before midnight totalling 492 hours 59 minutes, • and- -the mimber -pi hburs after 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 thp entries, m the jour- • nals 813— a total of 1405 land a daily ! average of 19:. The papers laid on the I table of the House totalled 401, ahd of these 135 were ordered to be printed. The reports' froni select committees numbered 326, no fewer than 104 of these being from the Native- Affairs Comnittee " .„„„„ , LIST OF ACTS PASSED. 1 Tho : following "is! the list of the Acts ; passed by Parliament during the session :-J-*' ■'■■'• Publio Acts. r Apprbpriatioh. Discharg&d . Soldiers' . . Settlement Amendment. Expiring Laws Continuance. ! Finance. .. , : j Hutt. Road Amendment. i Imprest- Siippiy. • " ' ■ . j Imprest Supply (No. 2). Imprest Supply (No. 3). Imprest Supiily (No. 4). Land Laws Amendment. ' Military Service Amendment. '! New Zealand Inscribed Stock. Native: Land Amendment and Nativo Land Claims Adjustment. Parliamentary Representation (Expeditionary Forces) Adjustment. Public Trust Office Amendment. Registration of Aliens. Regulation of Trade and Commerce. Reserves' arid 'Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies 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. j War Legislation. I War Pensions Amendment. War Purposes LoanWar Purposes Loan (No. 2). ' Local Acts. Christchurch Milk Supply and Mar- ' kets Amendment. j Day's Bay Sanitation and Water Supply. .-•-■.-,•• I Dunedin Waterworks Extension. Foxton Harbor .Boards Act 1908 Amendment. I Hawke's Bay Rivers Amendment. I Manawatu County Loan and Empowering. ''■: '.-■■■ „ * . *• Napier Harbor Board Empowering. Nelson Harbor Board Empowering. Tauranga Harbor Amendment and .Foreshore Vesting. ) Waimakariri Harbor District Empowering Amendment. \Vanganui Harbor Board Vesting. Wellington City Empowering. Wellington City Tradirig' Departments Reserves and Renewal Funds. Western Taieri Land Drainage. Whakatane Harbor Amendment. Whangarei Harbor Board Vesting. Private Act — Wanganui Church\ Acre Act Amendment Act, 1917. j