Leeds Corporation Bill (continued). Part III of the Bill (Extension of City) further considered. The Committee deliberated. Question, That the Preamble, so far as relates to Part III of the Bill (Extension of City) is proved, subject to the exclusion of Gildersome from the Bill, put and agreed to. Parties called in and informed of the decision of the Committee. Mr. John Henry Brearley sworn and examined. Mr. Arthur Collins recalled and further examined. Clause 106 (Corporation may advertise City). Sir Lynden Macassey, K.C., was heard in support of the Clause, and called evidence. Mr. Thomas Fletcher Braime sworn and examined. Sir Charles Henry Wilson recalled and further examined. Room cleared. The Committee deliberated. Question, That Clause 106 stand part of the Bill, put and negatived. Parties called in and informed of the decision of the Committee. [Adjourned till Tuesday next at 11 o'clock. Leeds Corporation Bill (continued). Clauses 44 (Adjustment as to properties) and 57 (Hunslet District). Mr. Jeeves, K.C., was heard in support of the Clauses. Mr. J. A. Greene was heard in support of the Petition of the Hunslet Rural District Council against Clauses 44 and 57. Further consideration of Clauses 44 and 57 postponed. Clause 104 (Amendment of section 92 of Act of 1905). Mr. Jeeves, K.C., was heard in support of the Clause, and called evidence. Mr. William Chamberlain sworn and examined. Leeds Corporation Bill (continued). Further evidence was heard in support of Clause 104 (Amendment of Section 92 of Act of 1905). Mr. William Chamberlain recalled and further examined. Mr. F. J. Wrottesley, K.C., was heard in support of the Petition of the Harrogate and District Road Car Company and others against Clause 104, and called evidence. Mr. Charles Joshua Fernside Atkinson, Mr. Robert Stanley Mandale, Mr. William Hodger Berwick, and Mr. Samuel Ledgard sworn and examined. Mr. W. J. Jeeves, K.C., was heard in reply on behalf of the Promoters. [Adjourned till Tuesday next at 11 o'clock. Clause 104 (Amendment of Section 92 of Act of 1905) further considered. Mr. W. J. Jeeves, K.C., was further heard in reply on behalf of the Promoters. Room cleared. The Committee deliberated. Question, That Clause 104 stand part of the Bill, put and negatived. Question, That the Leeds Corporation may substitute buses for trolleybuses, on trolley-bus routes actually being operated by them at the passing of this Act, put, and agreed to. Parties called in and informed of the decision of the Committee. Mr. Harold Beveridge was heard in support of the Clause, and called evidence. Sir Charles Henry Wilson recalled and further examined. Further consideration of Clause 103 postponed. Other Clauses considered, amended, and agreed to. Dr. John Johnson Jervis recalled and further examined. Clause 103 (Regulations as to sky signs) further considered. Sir Charles Henry Wilson recalled and further examined. Question, That Clause 103 stand part of the Bill, put, and agreed to. Other Clauses considered, amended, and agreed to. Mr. William Thomas Lancashire sworn and examined. [Adjourned till To-morrow at 11 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, 30th MARCH, 1927. Members Present: Sir THOMAS ROBINSON in the Chair. Major Colfox. Mr. Lowth. Sir Robert Newman. Mr. Robert Richardson. Leeds Corporation Bill (continued). New Clause 104 (Power to run omnibuses on trolley vehicle routes), brought up and read a first and second time. Sir Lynden Macassey, K.C., was heard in support of the Clause, and called evidence. Mr. William Chamberlain recalled and further examined. Mr. Ralph Bury was heard in support of the Petition of the Harrogate and District Road Car Company and others against the Clause, and called evidence. Mr. William Hodgson Berwick recalled and further examined. Sir Lynden Macassey, K.C., was heard in reply on behalf of the Promoters. Question, That the Clause, in so far as it empowers the Corporation to run buses from White Cross to Baildon Bridge when they abandon the trolley-buses on the routes from White Cross to Otley and to Burley, be read a third time and added to the Bill, put, and agreed to. Parties called in and informed of the decision of the Committee. Mr. Arthur Collins and Mr. William Thomas Lancashire recalled and further examined. New Clauses brought up, amended, and agreed to. Preamble read a second time and amended. Question, That the Preamble as amended is proved, put, and agreed to. Consideration of the Report adjourned till To-morrow. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill. Counsel: Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C., Mr. W. J. Jeeves, K.C., Mr. Harold Beveridge, and Mr. C. B. Fenwick. Agents: Messrs. Dyson, Bell and Co. The following Petitions against the Bill were read: (1) United Automobile Services: Counsel: Mr. W. E. Tyldesley Jones, K.C., and Mr. F. J. Agents: Messrs. Rees and Freres. (2) London and Provincial Omnibus Owners' Association : Counsel: Mr. W. E. Tyldesley Jones, K.C., and Mr. F. J. Agents: Messrs. Rees and Freres. (3) Blaydon and District Omnibus Proprietors' Association and others: Counsel: Mr. Arthur Moon. Agents: Messrs. Hilleary's. (4) Gosforth Urban District Council: Counsel: Mr. Ralph Bury. Agents: Messrs. Sharpe, Pritchard and Co. (5) Tynemouth Corporation: Counsel: Reserved. Agents: Messrs. Torr, Durnford and Co. (6) London and North-Eastern Railway Company: Counsel: Rt. Hon. H. P. Macmillan, K.C., Mr. W. E. Tyldesley Jones, K.C., Mr. Rowand Harker, K.C. Agents: Messrs. Sherwood and Co. 65158 A 5 (7) Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company: Counsel: Reserved. Agents: Messrs. Torr, Durnford and Co. (8) Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Company: (9) Northern General Transport Company: Agents: Messrs. Rees and Freres. (10) Wallsend Corporation: Counsel: Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald. Agents: Messrs. Torr, Durnford and Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill (continued). Preamble read the first time. A Report from the Ministry of Transport was read. Mr. Jeeves, K.C., called evidence in support of the Preamble of the Bill. Mr. Arthur Maule Oliver sworn and examined. Further consideration of the Preamble postponed. Mr. Jeeves, K.C., was heard in support of the Clauses of the Bill. [Adjourned till Tuesday next at 11 o'clock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill (continued). Clauses considered, amended, and agreed to. Clause 3 (Power to run omnibuses on routes outside the City). Mr. Thomas Potts Easton sworn and examined. [Adjourned till To-morrow at 11 o'clock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill (continued). Further evidence was heard in support of Clause 3. Mr. Arthur Robinson Fearnley, Mrs. Mary Catherine Hugh Middleton, O.B.E., Mr. Robert Purvis, Mr. Thomas McCarthy, and Mr. William Turnbull sworn and examined. [Adjourned till Tuesday next at 11 o'clock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill (continued). Further evidence was heard in support of Clause 3. Mr. Alfred Ernest Hill, Mr. John Mason, Mr. Charles Newman, Mr. Edward Joseph Pigg, Mr. John Ridley Robb, and Mr. Charles Forester Knight sworn and examined. [Adjourned till To-morrow at 11 o'clock. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill (continued). Further evidence was heard in support of Clause 3. Mr. John Peel, Mr. Harry Cecil Broadhurst, Mr. Frederick James Crawley, and Mr. Richard Mayne sworn and examined. [Adjourned till Tuesday, 26th April, at 11 o'clock. 65158 A 6 |