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the chairman of the select Committe on the Merchant shipping Consolidation Brill as to the delay in the precedings
the Select Committee, and when the Acting Attorney General, Ms. Rupell,
Explained
that the further delay cons owing to Mr. Phillippos illues
2.
The same Report will put
you in possession of
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the reasons no
the "Stearn Ship Survey and Repulation
Adinance", which
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was read a second
time on the 29th of April 1978, has
not yet
been passed, though in the
Minutes of Council at that time,
is recorded
my
wish that the
Select Committee would deal as
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quickly
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3.
possible with it The objection taken by Mr.
Keswick and the other Unofficial
Members to the Bill
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the ground
that it applies to British Steam Ships only, is one I did not feel mmpelf competent to deal with _ I observe that the same
Fiction
has been raised in Singapore,
I venture to ask for
as to whether I
for your
to
press
and
instructions
the Bill as
it stand, without yielding on this point
to the unofficial members.
4. I have the honor to enclose
Copy of
the Bill in the form in
which it was read a second time.