§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD MUIR MACKENZIEMy Lords, it happens that by an undesigned coinci- 122 dence this Bill comes before your Lordships at a very opportune moment. The Bill has for its object the extension of the time in which the Post Office is to make an underground railway from Kensington to Mile End, which is about six and three-quarter miles. The railway was begun in 1913. Operations were suspended during the war. Since that time the Post Office has been hard at work upon it, but it is not yet complete. I say that the moment is opportune because as soon as the railway is completed the red vehicles which were censured this evening by the noble Earl, Lord Crawford, whom I do not see in his place, will be entirely removed from a very large number of the streets of London. In those circumstances I think it will be gratifying to the House to read this Bill a second time. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2a — (Lord Muir Mackenzie.)
§ On Question, Bill read 2a