Lords Sitting of 4 November 1933

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLOR informed the House that he had received from the Senior Registrar in Bankruptcy a certificate that John Nicholas Horace, Baron Lisle, in the Peerage of Ireland, was adjudicated a bankrupt on the 5th April, 1933.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:

City of London (Various Powers),

Great Western Railway,

London Midland and Scottish Railway,

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal,

Durham Corporation.

Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:
Ministry of Health Provisional Order (Torquay).
Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect of the Petition for a Bill by the Maidens and Coombe Urban District Council.
And also that the Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect of the Petition for Additional Provision in the following Bill:
Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

CANCER HOSPITAL (FREE) BILL. [H.L.]
Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received and ordered to lie on the Table.
AMERSHAM, BEACONSFIELD AND DISTRICT WATER BILL. [H.L.]
Reported, with Amendments.
RUGBY CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
Reported, with Amendments.
SUNDERLAND GAS ORDER, 1933.
Report from the Special Orders Committee, That they have examined the Special Order as required by the Standing Orders of the House, that a Petition against the Order has been presented by the Sunderland Corporation, that they have heard the parties thereon and that, having considered the points referred to in subsection (6) of Standing Order 212, they are of opinion that there should be a further inquiry by a Select Committee; that they have received a report from the Board of Trade upon the Order, that in connection with such report they have considered the question of vires; while some doubt has been entertained as to the power of the Board of Trade by Special Order under the Gas Undertakings Acts, 1920 and 1929, to alter the existing maximum price of gas supplied by the Company, the Committee sees no objection upon this ground to the Order being approved by Resolution of the House: Read, and agreed to: The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS ACT, 1932 (BOROUGH OF TWICKENHAM ORDER).
Order made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department extending Section 1 of the Act to the Borough of Twickenham:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) for affirmative Resolution and ordered to lie on the Table.

LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY BILL.
Brought from the Commons; read la; and referred to the Examiners.
FOREIGN JUDGMENTS (RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT) BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons, agreed to, with an Amendment.