Lords Sitting of 24 February 1888

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading—Pharmacy Acts Amendment (13).
Select Committee—Truro Cathedral Fabric and Services* (3), nominated.

THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST, AND THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, WOOLWICH—RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF VISITORS.—QUESTION.
THE EARL OF STRAFFORDasked the Under Secretary of State for War, Whether the recommendations made by the Board of Visitors in 1887 at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, have been or are in course of being carried out? The points to which he drew special attention were the desirability of making provision for the cataloguing of the library at Sandhurst, the insufficient accommodation at Woolwich, where there were 232 students, or 32 above the normal number, and the urgent need of establishing at that Academy some sort of hospital for infectious diseases.
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Lord HARRIS),in reply, said, that the question of the cataloguing of the library at Sandhurst had come before a Departmental Committee, and after reading their Report he must say he was not of the same opinion as the Board of Visitors. He
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thought that there was an ample staff at Sandhurst for carrying out the cataloguing there without calling in extraneous aid. As to providing hospital accommodation at Woolwich in case of infectious disease, he understood there was no room available for that purpose. With respect to the suggested alterations and additions to Woolwich Academy, including hot water apparatus, it was estimated that they would cost £24,000; and the Secretary of State, looking at the requirements of other Public Services at the present time, did not consider the alterations of a character sufficiently urgent to justify so large an expenditure.

PHARMACY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
(The Earl of Milltown.)
PHARMACY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.

  (NO. 13.) SECOND READING.
  Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
  THE EARL OF MILLTOWN, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that one or two alterations had been made in its provisions since it was introduced last Session. Public hospitals and dispensaries had been put in the clause as places where the qualification of three years' apprenticeship might be obtained. The discretionary power of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain to dispense with that qualification, provided they were satisfied with the efficiency of the instruction which the candidates had obtained elsewhere, had been done away with. Another alteration was that the Bill should not come into operation until three years after next January, the object being that no wrong should be inflicted upon those who were now going through their apprenticeship course. But power would be given to make bye-laws which would come into operation next January. The Bill had received the unanimous assent of the Pharmaceutical Society, and it was entirely approved by the noble Viscount the Lord President of the Council (Viscount Cranbrook), who was unable to be present that evening.
  Moved,"That the Bill be now read 2a—(The Earl of Milltown.)
  Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly.

  TRURO CATHEDRAL FABRIC AND SERVICES BILL [H.L.]
  Select Committee on: The Lords following were named of the Committee:—

  L. Abp. Canterbury.

  L. Bp. London.

  D. Richmond.

  L. Bp. Truro.

  D. Bedford.

  L. Sudeley.

  E. Mount Edgcumbe. (L. Steward.)

  L. Northbourne.

  L. Lingen.

  E. Stanhope.

  L. Grimthorpe.

  E. Kimberley.

  L. Magheramorne.

  V. Halifax.

  L. Basing.

  The Committee to meet on Monday next, at half-past Three o'clock, and to appoint their own Chairman.
  House adjourned at a quarter before Five o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Eleven o'clock.