MR. EGERTON ALLEN (Pembroke District)I ask to be allowed to say that I wish to correct a statement which appears in The Times report of a speech I made, on Monday evening, on an Amendment in Committee on the Welsh Church Bill. [Cries of "Order."]
§ *MR. SPEAKERI understand the hon. Member does not mean to correct a report, but to correct something he has said.
MR. EGERTON ALLENI wish to make a correction I have been asked to make. It refers to something which I am reported to have said. I am reported to have said that a landowner, and everyone who knew the circumstances knew that I referred to Lord Cawdor, did not allow Nonconformist places of worship to be built on his estate. I do not think I actually used those words. I think I said the building of chapels was discouraged.
§ MR. G. C. T. BARTLEYSir, I rise to Order. I wish to ask you whether the hon. Member is allowed to correct a statement, or whether he should not first of all state that the statement that he made in this House was incorrect. Is it our business to correct the Press reports of speeches in this House?
§ *MR. SPEAKERThe hon. Member communicated with me before he rose. I understand that he desires to correct a statement that has gone forth imputing conduct to a Member of the other House which is denied, and to make a statement with reference to that.
MR. EGERTON ALLENI learn on the highest authority that I was wrong in saying that Lord Cawdor would not allow chapels on his estate. As a matter of fact, there is a chapel on his estate in the Castlemartin Rural Deanery, and he has given a site for one outside that district, but in South Pembrokeshire. Further, he has never been asked to give a site in the Castlemartin Rural Deanery nor refused such a request.