§ Order for Committee read.
§ Bill considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ Clause 1 (Amendment of s. 3 of 43 and 44 Vict. c. 35).
§
Amendment proposed,
In page 2, line 4, to leave out after the word "Provided" to the words "eighteen hundred and eighty" in line 6.—(Mr. Courtney.)
§ Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause."
§ MR. DILLWYNsaid, he must object to the Amendment. Sub-section 3 was inserted to prevent the destruction of birds which were not noxious, and did not increase too fast, but rather the con- 450 trary. Such birds ought to be protected, and for that purpose this section was necessary.
§ MR. THOMASSONurged the undesirability of encouraging the killing of these birds in foreign countries by allowing them to be sold in this country.
§ MR. COURTNEYsaid, he thought the hon. Member for Swansea (Mr. Dillwyn) had rather misunderstood the object of the clause, and contended that the effect of the sub-section was to extend protection to the importer.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clauses 2 and 3 agreed to.
§ Bill reported; as amended, to be considered To-morrow.