§ On the Motion for the Adjournment of the House—
§ SIR F. BANBURY,referring to the debate on the Motion with respect to the failure of the Shop Hours Act, stated that on reference to Hansard he found that he voted, not in favour of the Second Reading of the Shop Hours Bill, but against the Amendment of the right hon. Baronet the Member for the Forest of Dean, and that there was no division at all on the Second Reading. That, he submitted, conclusively proved that the hon. Member for Clitheroe was in error in saying that he voted for the Second Reading of the Bill. He asked the hon. Member to withdraw the statement which he had made.
§ MR. SHACKLETONsaid that on looking into the matter he found there was no Second Reading division; therefore the Member for the City of London could not have voted for the Second Reading. From the divisions and debate, however, it appeared that the right hon. Gentleman did support the Government.
§ VISCOUNT TURNOURreferred to the form in which the hon. Member for the Clitheroe Division had met the hon. Baronet's explanation. It affected the relations between hon. Members of the House. When the hon. Baronet was condemning the Shop Hours Bill the hon. Member asked why he voted for it, his sole object being to ridicule his hon. friend. The hon. Member ought to have withdrawn unreservedly the statement he had made instead of following it up in the manner he had done.
§ Adjourned at a quarter after Eleven o'clock.