POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 60, 6 November 1914, Page 2

POLITICAL.

business of the session.

2,Psa Pbiu Association. J Wellington, November 5

The following are the principal items in the schedule of business transacted by the House of Representatives during the fourth session of the eighteenth Parliament: —

Public Bills which received the Royal assent, 101; reserved for His Majesty’s pleasure, 0; dropped or otherwise disposed of, 47. Private Bills which received the Royal assent, 2. Petitions presented, 331. Divisions on 62 days of mooting, 78. Hours of sitting, 508 hours 45 minutes, daily average being 6 hours 31 minutes (lowest since 1876). Questions asked of Ministers, 355, ACTS PASSED. The following is tiio list of Acts passed;—Aid to Public Works and uand Settlement, Animals Protection, Appropriation, Banking Amendment, Banking Amendment (No. 2), Civil Service Officers Guarantee Repeal, Coal Mines Amendment, Customs Amendment, Defence Amendment, education, Education Reserves Amendment, Expeditionary forces Voting, Expeditionary Forces A otiug (No. 2), Eire Brigades Amendments, fisheries Amendment, Friendly Societies Amendment, Fruit Preserving Industry Amendment, Gaming Amendment, Harbors Amendment, Hauraki Plains Amendment, Imprest Supply, imprest Supply (No. 2), Imprest Supply (No. 3), Imprest Supply (No. 4), Imprest Supply (No. 5), Imprisonment foi Debt Limitation Amendment, Inspection of Machinery Amendment, lion and Steel Industries, Kauri Gum Industry Amendment, Laud Laws Amendment, Land Tax and Income Tax Legislative Council, Legislature Amendment, Legislature Amendment (No. 2), Licensing Amendment, Local Railways, Local Elections (proportional representation), Medical Practitioners, Mental Defectives Amendment, Mining Amendment, Mortgages Extension, Mortgages Extension Amendment (No. 2), Municipal Corporations Amendment, National Provident Fund Amendment, National Provident Fund Amendment (No. 2), Native Land Amendment, Native Laud Claims Adjustment, New Zealand Loans Amendment, New Zealand University Amendment, Orchard and Garden Diseases Amendment, Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Amendment, Pensions Amendment, Port Westshore Road and Railway, Public Bodies Leases Amendment, Public Reserve and Domains Amendment, Public Revenue Amendment, Public Works Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Railways Improvement Authorisation, Raugltaiki Land Drainage Amendment, Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Remounts Encouragement, Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering, River Hoards Amendment, Road Bonds Amendment, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Empowering, State Advances Amendment, Taieri Land Drainage Amendment, Taumarauul Hospital District, Trading with the Enemy, Trustee Amendment, Victoria College Amendment, Wages Protection nd Contractor Liens Amendment, War Contributions Validation, War Contributions Validation (No. 2), War Regulations, War Risk Insurance, West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment, Workers’ Dwellings Amendment. Local Acts Auckland City and Auckland Harbor Board Empowering, (Christchurch District Drainage Amendment, Christchurch Milk Supply and 'Markets, Dunedin City Council Empowering, Dunedin District Drainage and Seiverage Acts Amendment, Dunedin City (Waipori Falls), Lands Vesting, Eltham Drainage Board, Hutt Park Amendment, Napier Harbor Hoard Empowering and Loan, Oneliunga Borough Council Enabling, Ricu art on Bush, Southland Land Drainage, Takapuna Borough, Foreshore Vesting, Tuakitoto and Kaitangata Lakes Amendment, Waitara Harbor Board Empowering, Wellington City Milk Supply Amendment, Whangarei Borough Laud Vesting, Whangarei Harbor Board Empowering. Private Acts: —Presbyterian Church Property Act, 1885, Amendment; Methodist Charitable and Educational Trusts Act Amendment.

Bills dropped, or otherwise disposed of: —Cook Island, Cook Islands (shipping), Crimes Amendment, Customs Amendment, Defamation, Election of Ministers and Party Government lieform, Electoral Reform and Compulsory Voting, Factories Act Amendment, Fire Inquests, Fire Inquests (No. 2), Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment (No. 2), Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Enabling, Industrial Unions and Trade Unions Registration, Land Agents’ Amendment, Legislative Council Reform, Legislature Amendment, Legislature Amendment (right , to vote), Lights on Vehicles, Local Grants and subsidies, Magistrate’s Courts, Master and Apprentice Amendment, Masseurs Registration, Mortgage and Chattel Security, Foreclosure Prevention and Debtors Protection, Motor, National Provident Fund Act Amendment, Native Land Amendment Now Protection, Popular Initiative and Referendum, Proportional Representation and Effective Voting. Public Health Amendment, Public Service Amend, inent, Railway Improved Lands, Religious Instruction in Schools, Referendum, Right to Work, Shipping Documents during War, Shops and Offices Amendment, Unregistered Nurses’ Registration. Local Bills dropped : —Awakiuo County Council Empowering, Christchurch Tramways District, Dargaville Borough Municipal Site Vesting, Fo-

kouui County, Presbyterian Social Service Association Vesting, liaukapuka County, Wairau Harbor Board Foreshore Grant Wairoa Harbor Board Amendment.

Mr Hornsby, the Liberal can it,late for Wajrarapa, at his meeting on Saturday night hi Mastertou (states a message to the Auckland Star) gave an illustration of methods ol the Government by placing before the aucnencc a little secret history concerning the Feathers tuii-Martinboroiigh railway line. Mr Hornsby.said that with regard to the h eatherston-Martinbor-ough line the whole business was most discreditable to the Government. People were simply being humbugged. The “turning of the first sod” was a well rehearsed farce, “There was,” said the speaker, “an assemblage of many motor cars, and a great numbei of people, and speeches were made, and a ceremony performed. Would it ho credited that the section on which the sod was solemnly turned had not been bought, that it belonged to a widow, that she was compelled still to pay the rates on the property, and that she had not even been asked to state what she hoped to get for the land. No arrangement was made as to valuation.” The candidate urged the leading men of Martinborough to sec to it that injustice to a poor woman was not permitted to continue. Not a single yard of the land through which the railway was to run had yet been valued, let alone purchased. l(uithermore, there was no mention of the proposed line of railway in the list of lines to be constructed during the ensuing twelve months.

Mr W. H. Turnbull, a well-known Wellington city auctioneer, iias been selected to contest the Wellington North seat against the Hon .A. L. ilerdmau iu the Liberal interest.