§ Mr. C. S. TaylorI beg to ask leave to present a Petition on behalf of a large number of persons in the South-Eastern Traffic Area against the nationalisation of the road transport industry. The Petition has been signed by 31,104 persons. The Prayer of the Petition is as follows:
We, your Petitioners, humbly pray your Honourable House to reject any proposals which may hereafter be submitted to Parliament for approval, or for legislation, with the object of replacing private enterprise, in the provision of road transport, by a nationalised or Government-controlled system of transport, and your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.To lie upon the Table.
§ Colonel J. R. H. HutchisonI beg to ask leave to present a Petition on behalf of a large number of persons in the Scotland Traffic Area against the nationalisation of the road transport industry. The Petition has been signed by 65,223 persons. The Prayer of the Petition is in the form with which this House is already familiar.
To lie upon the Table.