Lords Report of 15 November 1927

OUSE DRAINAGE BILL.
Report from the Joint Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed with the Bill made. The Minutes of Evidence (with the Proceedings of the Committee) laid upon the Table and to be delivered out.
CONSOLIDATION BILLS.
Second Report from the Joint Committee, being the Report on the Statute Law Revision Bill [H.L.] made, and to be printed. The Minutes of Evidence (with the Proceedings of the Joint Committee) laid upon the Table, and to be printed.

WEST MIDLANDS ELECTRICITY DISTRICT (IRONBRIDGE GENE- RATING STATION) ORDER, 1927.
Special Order in respect of the purchase and use by the West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority of land for a generating station at Buildwas, in the County of Salop, and for other purposes:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

SOUTH DURHAM DISTRICTS ELEC- TRICITY ORDER, 1927.
Special Order in respect of parts of the rural districts of Darlington, Hartlepool, Sedgefield and Stockton, in the County of Durham:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

DEWSBURY GAS ORDER, 1927.
Special Order proposed to be made on the application of the Mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the County Borough of Dewsbury:
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act) and referred to the Special Orders Committee.

ALDERSHOT DISTRICT ELECTRICITY (EXTENSION, ETC.) ORDER, 1927.
BRIDGEND ELECTRICITY (EXTENSION) ORDER, 1927.
CHESTER ELECTRICITY (EXTENSION, ETC.) ORDER, 1927.
CRICCIETH ELECTRICITY ORDER, 1927.
GLOUCESTER ELECTRICITY (EXTENSION) ORDER, 1927.
Report from the Special Orders Committee, that no Petition has been presented praying to be heard against the Special Orders, and that there is nothing in these Orders to which they think it necessary to call the attention of the House: Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

MANCHESTER GAS ORDER, 1927.
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 Urban District Councils of Stretford, Audenshaw, Droylsden and Cheadle and Gatley, and that having considered the points referred to in subsection (6) of Standing Order 191, they are of opinion that there is no necessity for a further inquiry by a Select Committee: Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL. [H.L.]
Reported from the Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills with Amendments, and re-committed to a Committee of the Whole House. Bill to be printed as amended.
LAW OF LIBEL AMENDMENT BILL. [H.L.]
A Message ordered to be sent to the Commons to propose that the Joint Committee do meet in Committee Room C on Wednesday, the 23rd of November, at half-past eleven o'clock.