§ Bill to make further provision, as respects England and Wales, with respect to grants to local or police authorities, with respect to the rating of industrial and freight-transport hereditaments and of transport, electricity and gas authorities, with respect to the making of changes in the area, name, status and functions of local authorities, and with respect to local government finance; to amend the law in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland as to the making by trustees of loans to local and other authorities; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, presented by Mr. Henry Brooke; supported by the Prime Minister, Mr. R. A. Butler, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, and Mr. Derek Walker-Smith; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Thursday and to be printed. [Bill 15.]