§ Order for Consideration, as amended, read.
299§ SIR F. MILNER (Notts, Bassetlaw)It is not my intention to raise opposition to the further stages of the Bill; but the Aire and Calder Navigation do desire me to place on record their strong regret that after the past services of the Navigation to the public, and the manner in which they have developed and improved their navigation at great cost, the Joint Committee should have come to decisions involving the Navigation in an annual loss in revenue of some £15,500, and the Navigation regard it as almost certain that they will be compelled in the near future to seek some relief from Parliament from the consequences which they regard as certain to ensue. I am the more induced to say this, because the Aire and Calder Navigation regard the legislation as being quite as injurious to the traders as to the Navigation, as the result of the Committee's decision must inevitably he to cripple the resources of the Navigation, and thereby reduce its efficiency and further development and its controlling power over railways. During the last few years the Navigation have spent tens of thousands of pounds in improving the rivers for the benefit of the public. I, therefore, desire to record my most solemn protest against the decision of the Joint Committee.
§ SIR A. ROLLIT (Islington, S.)I oppose the Bill, and move that it be postponed till to-morrow.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Consideration, as amended, deferred till To-morrow.