§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ LORD KINNAIRD,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, 1921 said, it was one to enable Local Authorities in Scotland to acquire and lay out land for Public Parks and Pleasure Grounds. These places of recreation were much needed for the population of our large overcrowded towns, and in England the privilege was granted which, by the present Bill, it was sought to extend to Scotland. Every enacting clause of the Bill was already law in England; and the Bill as it stood was approved by the Lord Advocate as well as by the Home Secretary, having been, with slight Amendments, carried with their help in the House of Commons. Parliament had always been disposed to view with favour attempts to bring the laws of England and Scotland into harmony, and this Bill was a step in that direction.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a" —(The Lord Kinnaird.)
§ THE EARL OF REDESDALEpointed out that a formal alteration in respect to procedure under the Bill was desirable in the Bill as it came up from the other House.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.
§ House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, to Thursday next, half past Ten o'clock.