§ Nelson Corporation Water Bill [Lords],
§ As amended, considered; to be read the third time.
§ Scarisbrick Estate Bill [Lords],
§ As amended, to be considered Tomorrow.
§ Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Staffordshire Electric Power Bill [Lords],
§ As amended, considered; to be read the third time.
§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ The CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS (Mr. Whitley)The promoters of these two gas Bills have agreed to the Instruction which stands in my name, and I trust the House will see fit now to allow the remainder of the Bills to go forward to the Committee.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill accordingly read a second time, and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
§ Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee to which the Bill may be referred to strike out the provisions whereby it is proposed to increase any statutory maximum price or to modify existing statutory provisions as to the relation of price to dividend.—[Mr. Whitley.]
§ Portsea Island Gas Light Bill (by Order),
§ Read a second time, and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.
§ Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee to which the Bill may be referred to strike out the provisions whereby it is proposed to increase any 1778 statutory maximum price or to modify existing statutory provisions as to the relation of price to dividend.—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]
§ Local Government Provisional Order (No. 7) Bill,
§ Local Government Provisional Order (No. 8) Bill,
§ Read a second time, and committed.