§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES (EARL DE LA WARR)My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to enable effect to be given to a Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 24th day of September, 1931; to prohibit the taking or treating of whales within the coastal waters of the United Kingdom; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. I move that it be read a first time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 1ª.— (Earl De La Warr.)
§ On Question, Bill read 1ª, and to be printed.