Mr. MackieBill to require local authorities to consider and make recommendations on applications for betting office licences within their area; and to establish a minimum interval between successive applications for licences for betting offices on the same or an adjacent site; and for purposes connected therewith, presented by Mr. Bernard Weatherill; supported by Mr. Philip Goodhart, Sir Richard Nugent, Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish, Mr. Hornby, Mr. David Mitchell, Mr. Rees-Davis, Mr. Jopling, and Mr. David Walder; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Friday, 12th March, and to be printed. [Bill 26.]