THE SESSION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 3

THE SESSION.

112 BILLS PASSED. DETAILS OP WORK ACCOM- • PUSHED. WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. During the session just closed there •were 112 Bills passed, including the following public Acts: — New Zealand and South African Customs Treaty Reciprocation. Aid to Public Works -and Land Settlement Reserve Fund Securities. Trustees Act Amendment. Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment. Rotorua Town. Tohunga Suppression. Foreign Tribunals Evidence. Police Offences Act “Amendment. Tariff. Methylated Spirit. Land and Income Assessment. Coal Mines Act Amendment. Otaki and Porirua Empowering. Land Tax and Income Tax. Sale of Food and Drugs. Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Act Amendment. Marine Insurance. Post Office Savings Bank Funds Investment. Hutt Railway and Road Improvement. Scaffolding Inspection Act Amendment. , . Indictable Offences Summary Jurisdiction Act Amendment, Police Offences. Agricultural Implements Manufacture, Importation and Sale. Government Advances to Settlers. .Flour and other Products Monopoly Prevention. Coal Mines Act Amendment (No. 21). ' • -

Seta Fisheries; Butter Export. Defence Act Amendment. Railways. Improvements Authorisation. • ™ „

Statutes Repeal. ; Hospitals and Charitable Institutions. • , . Local Bodies. Loans Act Amendment. . Post Offices, Act Amendment. Fisheries Conservation Act Amendment. 1 . ' Post and Telegraph Classification. Education Act Amendment. - Beer Duty Act Amendment. Parliamentary and Executive TitJos. Canterbury' College Endowment.

‘lnfant Life Protection. _ Land ‘Laws Act Amendment. Public Trust-Office Amendment. Ngatimaru Landless Natives. ■Darning and Lotteries Act Amend- ! -ment. r] :'■ _‘ ■ Purangi Landless Natives. Factories Act Amendment. ■Christchurch District Drainage Act (Amendment. • .. .•• , . Shops and Offices Act Amendment. iFiro Brigades Reserves and other Lands Disposal ■ and Public Bodies Empowering. . w . v ;,. Native Land Settlement.. Counties Act Amendment. Maori I Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Act Amendment. Public Service Superannuation. Government Railways Department Classification. . , Railways Authorisation. Water Supply Act Amendment. Bills of Exchange Act Amendment. Stock Act Amendment/ National Endowment. Packet Licenses. Public Health Act Amendment. Co-operative Dairy Companies.

Appropriation. • - In addition to the above there are four Imprest Supply Acts. There is also the Chirese Immigrants Amendment Act, which has been reserved for the Royal assent. Forty-nine Bills were dropped or otherwise disposed of. The ■ petitions received were oil from Europeans, and 69 from Maoris. There were 56 divisions ot the House, and 275 .in Committee. The questions asked of Ministers ■numbered 864. Trim House sat on 92 days, the average daily sitting, being of 8 hours ■26 minutes duration. . The to-al duration of sittings during the session -was 780 hours 35 minutes, of which •662 hours 25 mihutes was before midnight, and 108 hours 10 minutes afSter,