§ THE CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS informed the House that the Committee on Group No. 5 of Railway Bills not being appointed to meet until Thursday, 14th April, the parties opposing the London County Council (Tramways and Improvements) Bill had appeared before him and proved that the evidence of William Nisbet Blair, Borough Engineer and Surveyor of St. Pancras, Town Hall, St. 3 Pancras Road, Horace Bantick, Superintendent D Division Metropolitan Police, and John Monk, Sub-Divisional Inspector D Division Metropolitan Police, was essential to their case, and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House.
§ Ordered, That William Nisbet Blair, Horace Bantick, and John Monk do attend the Committee on Group No. 5 of Railway Bills on Thursday, 14th April, at Twelve of the clock.