HC Deb 11 March 1904 vol 131 c847
SIR GEORGE BARTLEY (Islington, N.)

said that he had given notice on the Paper of an Instruction to the Committee on this Bill which he did not wish to move, but he might be permitted to give his reasons for placing that Instruction on the Paper and withdrawing it. His Instruction was intended to secure some change in the receiving houses of the railway companies in London. Every-body knew that these had become a great nuisance in London. For instance, in Regent Circus they blocked the thorough-fare. The object of his Instruction was that the railway companies should do what was done by many private companies, viz., provide covered ways for the transfer of the goods so as to avoid the existing nuisance to the public. That seemed to him obviously right and proper. He, however, was given to understand that that part of the clause of the Bill applicable to this point was to be struck out in another place and therefore it would not be necessary to move his Instruction.

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