PARLIAMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 67, 12 November 1912, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

WORK OP THE SESSION

The following are the details of-the Inn iae.-s of tno House of iiepreseutalives and of the Bills passed and lapsed during the, session:— elect Uonunittocs on public matters. 2d; on private Bills, i; total 'll. Public Bills received the Royal assent. m : reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure, j., or otnenviso disposed of, 6i; total i-ltS, Private Bills received the Royal assent, 1. r< Liaous presented from Europeans, 311; from Maoris, 84: total 395. Divisions in the whole House, 22; in Committee, CO; total, 82. (Sitting -days of meeting, 69; hours of sitting before midnight, 472 hr 5 min; hours of sitting after midnight, MUlirs 45min; total, 552 hrs 50 mm; daily average, Shrs. Votes and proceedings: Questions asked of Ministers, 1132; entries in journals, 21 TO; total, 3302; daily average, 48.

Orders for papers, 97. Papers laid upon the table by cominana, 57; by leave, 6i ; by Act, 189; in return to orders, 73; by the Speaker, 1 ; total 377'; papers ordered to bo printed, 2.15; papers not ordered to be printed, 15(1; total, 371. Reports from Select Committees: Public Petitions A to L Committee, /'/ ; Public Petitions M to Z Committee, 81Native Affairs Committee, 02; Banes Committee, 52; Agricultural, Pastoral, Stock, and Commerce Committee, 7 : t!Oldfield* and' Mines Committee, .15; Labour Bills Committee, 5; Local Bills Committee, 36; Railways Committee. 26; Education committee, 16; Public Accounts Committee, 7; other committees, 27; total, in. ACTS PASSED.

Note.—Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act reserved for the assent of Bis Majesty. I'u die Acts.—Aged and Infirm Persons Protection, Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Amendment, Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Appropriation, Auckland Education lie •serves, Auckland University College Amendment, Barmaids Regis'■ration, Cemeteries, Country Telephone Lines, Births and Deaths Registration. Amendment, Defence 1 Amendment, Deputy Governor’s Powers, Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amendment, East Coast Native Trust Lands Amendment, Education Amendment, Ellesmere Lands Drainage Amendment, Fisheries Amendment, Gold Duty Amendment, Government Life Lir a ranee Amendment, Government Railways Amendment,. Land Agents, Land and Income Assessment Amendment, Land Laws Amendment, Land Tax and Income Tax, Local Authority Su pc ran n nation A mendmen t, Local Bodies Loans Amendment, Marriage Amendment, Military Pensions, Monopoly Prevention .Amendment, Native Laud Amendment, New Zealand University Amendment, New Zealand

•waw Guaranteed Advances Amendment, Pharmacy Amendment, Plumbers’ Registration, Prisons Amendment, Public Reserves and ’Domains Amendment, Public Revenues Amendment. Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment, Public Service; Public Trust Office Amendment, t Reserves and Other -- Lands Mfsp..sal and Public Bodies Empowering, Railways Authorisation, Harbours Amendment, • Hauraki. Plains Amendment, Imprest Supply, Imprest Si puiy No. 2, imprest Supply No. 3, 1 ■ ’ ' ’st ■ c ’unulv No. 4. linnresb Supply No. 5, Justices of the Peace Am-

v. ..... jin, ivaiai»oi tteserve, f*avmgs Bank Amendment, Shearers and Agricultural Labourers’ Accommodation Amendment, State Fire Insurance Amendment,* Thomas George l&Cartby, Town Boards Amendment, Valuation of Land Amendment, Waihou and Ohinemmi Rivers Improvement, Wanganui River Trust Amendment, Westport Harbour Amendment, Widows’ -Pensions Amendment. Local Acts.— Akaroa and Wainni Raul District, Akaroa County and W;dr?wa County Alteration of Boundaries Amendment, Auckland Mari.r Board empowering, Auckland Harbour Board, / Christchurch Tramways District Amendment, Dilworth Trustees Act Amendment, Durtediu .District Drainage and Sewdrage Acts Amendment, Hawke’s Bay Rivers Amendment, Mckan Harbour Board Empowering, Napier Harbour Board Amendment and Endowment Improvement, Now Plymouth Kuatoki Stream Diversion and Exchange, Oamaru King George’s Park Reserve Vesting, Opunake Harbour Amendment, Ross Borough Council Vesting and Empowering Amendment, Taieri Land Drainage, Tanranga Harbour, Waimaii County Differential Rate Empowering, Wellington City Empowering mul Amendment, Wellington Harbour Board Empowering, Wellington and Karen’ Sanitation and Water Supply, Westland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Vesting and Empowering, Waakataue Harbour. BILLS DROPPED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF.

-'Public Bills Dropped. —Abolition of Tied Houses, Acquirement of Unearned Increments Prevention, Banking as a State Monopoly, Betterment, Bureau of Justice, Civil Service Amendment, Coal Mines Act (190$) Ameudm. art, Coal Mines Amendment, Cook Islands Government Amendment, Coenerativc Workers on Public Works, Counties Amendment, Defence Act .1 .aciiftment, Dominion Saturday Half Holiday, Dunedin Garrison Hall Trustees Empowering, Elective Executive, Electoral Reform, Fisheries Amendment 1 , Gaming Amendment, Government! Life Insurance, Graduated. Income Tax Amendment) Hotel and Other Employees Six Days a Week, Industrial 'Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment, Insurance as a State Monopoly, Legislative Amendment, i m-epsing Amend moot, Licensing Amendment No. 2. Legislative Conn-

cil, Lights on Vehicles, Limitation of Pi dress; for Pent, Local Government, Marriage Act Amendment, Marriages Validation, .Mental Defect, yes Amendment, Mining Act (15508) Amendment, Mnnieipal Cmpentions Amendment, National Provident Fund Amendment, Valionalis it-Pm of the Iron Industry, New Zealand Institute cf Architects, New Zealand Mean Time, Pollution of Water, Publication of the Press nmb r License., P'nre Whiter Supply to Pbixmills. Sharing of Profits of State

Mminpolii r. Shoos and Offices Amendment, State Fire Insurance- Amendment. State Not;-, issue and Workers Mousing;, Sairidav Labour, Universal Saturday Half Holiday, Unregistered Nurses .Registration. Wamranm p ridgv Amendment. Watcr-oirried Goods and Passenger Traffic. Workers Minimum Wage, Workers Right to Wages and Work.

Local Pills.—Auckland Ilmversity College Act G 882) Amendment, Fox'■ui Harbour Board Loan, Lvttolton Harbour Board Laud. Orakei Model Suburb empowering, Sumner Borough Foreshore .Vesting and Empowering, Waikato River Boil'd. Wanga'T.i Harbour Pi ' rict and Emmwering. Waitemata County Council Empowering,: Wanganui Harbour District and Fm- >' verin-v No. 2, Wairoa Harbctn Board Endowment.