HC Deb 25 May 1908 vol 189 cc704-5

Petitions against, praying to be heard: From Richmond; Watermen, Lightermen, and Watchmen of the River Thames; and Lightermen, Dues-payers, and Traders upon the Thames; referred to the Select Committee on the Bill.

Petitions against, praying to be heard by counsel: From Atlantic Transport Company Limited; Association of Master Lightermen and Bargeowners of the Port of London; Berkshire County Council; British Indian Steam Navigation Company Limited; Commercial Gas Company; Commissioners of Sewers for the Limits extending from London Wall to Gravesend Bridge; Commissioners of the Dartford and Crayford Navigation; Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal; Company of Proprietors of the Lower Navigation of the River Medway; Conservators of the River Thames; Corporation of London; Corporation of Queenborough; County Council of Middlesex; East London Railway Company and the East London Railway Joint Committee; Ellerman Lines Limited; Essex County Council; Executive Officers of the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews; Gas Light and Coke Company; George Richard Burness; Governors of Bridewell Hospital; Great Eastern Railway Company, Great Northern Railway Company, Great Western Railway Company, London and North Western Railway Company, London and Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, Midland Railway Company, North London Railway Company, and the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies' Managing Committee; Hertfordshire County Council; Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; James Hilditch Gough; Joseph Rank Limited and William Vernon and Sons; Kent County Council; Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association and the Liverpool Shipowners' Association; London and India Docks Company; London Chamber of Commerce; London County Council; London Direct Short Sea Traders' Association; London Tilbury and Southend Railway Company; London Waterside Manufacturers' Association; Master, Wardens and Commonalty of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames; Metropolitan Water Board; Millwall Dock Company; Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited; Owners and Lessees of Wharves and Premises, Manufacturers, Traders, and Freighters on the Dartford and Crayford Navigation; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Limited; Representatives of the Urban District Councils of Teddington, Hampton Wick, Hampton, Sunbury, Staines, Ham, Surbiton, Esher, and the Dittons, East and West Molesey, Weybridge, Chertssy, Egham, Marlow and Caversham; Society of Foreman Lightermen of the River Thames; Southend on Sea Corporation; South Metropolitan Gas Company; South Suburban Gas Company; Surrey Commercial Dock Company; Thames Preservation League; Thames Riparian Owners' Association; Timber Trade Federation of the United Kingdom (London Section); Wharfingers Association of the Port of London; William Cory and Son Limited; and William Mitchell, George Barham, John Chapman, Thomas Portch, and William H. Pring; referred to the Select Committee on the Bill.

Petition from the Commissioners of Sewers for Havering, Rainham, and other levels, against alterations, praying to be heard by counsel; referred to the Select Committee on the Bill.