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Business of
[ 21 & 22 JULY 1931 ]
HOUSE OF LORDS.
[From Minutes of July 21.]
METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD
BILL.
SOUTHAMPTON
CORPORATION
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the House.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Wednesday, 22nd July, 1931.
The House met at a quarter before four of the Clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
BILL.
Returned from the Commons, with the Amendments, agreed to.
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, STALY- BRIDGE AND DUKINFIELD (DISTRICT) WATERWORKS BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with Amendments; the said Amend- ments considered and agreed to.
NORTH KILLINGHOLME (ADMIR-
ALTY PIER) BILL. Reported, without amendment, and re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
H.L.
No. 84
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
VISCOUNT HAILSHAM: My Lords, I do not know if it is convenient to the noble and learned Lord the Leader of the House to tell us what procedure he thinks it convenient to recommend, hav- ing regard to the fact that there are a number of Amendments down to the Agri- cultural Marketing Bill on the Com- mittee stage, which your Lordships will remember takes place to-morrow after- noon, and of the possibility that it may be very inconvenient for a great number of your Lordships to be here for any long period to-morrow afternoon in view of His Majesty's command to be else- where.
THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (LORD PARMOOR): My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount for asking me this question. We have carefully con- sidered the matter to which he has referred and I hope he will think the arrangement which I propose is satis- factory. I propose to ask the House to meet to-morrow at 3 p.m. and to adjourn at about 4 or 4.30; at any rate in ample time for your Lordships to obey the invitation extended to all of us. If the proceedings in Committee on the Agri- cultural Marketing Bill are not finished
I do not think they will be-I propose that we should resume them at 11 a.m. on Friday. There is no judicial business at the present time and so the House will be free.
VISCOUNT HAILSHAM: I cannot go so far as to say that I think the proposed arrangement is convenient. but I recognise that there, is great difficulty because of the desire of the Government to get the Bill through all its stages, and the Amendments which are likely to be made in Committee considered by the Commons and returned here in time for the adjournment at the end of next week,
THE MARQUESS OF READING: My Lords, I am prepared to fall in with the
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