§ Sir K. WOODI beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House in order to call attention to a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely, "the failure of the Government to take adequate steps to maintain the public traffic services which are now gravely interfered with by the lightning strike on the London Electric Railways."
§ Mr. SPEAKERI find myself unable to put the hon. Member's Motion to the House. The Government do not manage these railways. Besides that, the form of the Motion is quite indefinite, and the Standing Order requires that it shall be definite as well as of urgent public importance.
§ Sir K. WOODMay I point out that I am not asking the Government to maintain the services on the railways, but the public services generally, just in the same way as other Governments have done in similar circumstances
§ Mr. SPEAKERThat is even more indefinite.