HC Deb 05 July 1920 vol 131 c1031

Third Report from the Select Committee brought up, and read; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 138.]

Sir FREDERICK BANBURY reported from the Select Committee on National Expenditure, That Mr. E. Cairns, whose attendance is necessary for the purpose of the inquiry, had been served with a summons to attend the Committee on 30th June, and had failed to attend; he had therefore been instructed by the Committee to report the circumstances to the House, in order that the House may take such steps as seem to the House to be proper and necessary.

Ordered, That the said Mr. Cairns do attend the Committee on Wednesday, 14th July, at Half-past Eleven of the Clock.