REPORT

FROM

STANDING COMMITTEE C

ON THE

Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Bill [Lords]

WITH THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

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STANDING COMMITTEE C.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [LORDS].-Read a second time, and committed to a Standing Committee on the 19th April, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Committee on the 20th April.

The Committee was constituted as follows:-
:-

Major SIR RICHARD BARNETT, appointed Chairman 10th May.

*Lawson, Mr.

Lee, Mr.

Leigh, Sir John

Loder, Captain

Lougher, Mr.

*Lynn, Sir Robert

*Makins, Brigadier-General

Malone, Mr.

*Morrison, Mr. Hugh

*Morrison, Mr. Robert

Naylor, Mr.

Nelson, Sir Frank

Oman, Sir Charles

Pilcher, Mr.

Power, Sir John
Preston, Mr.
*Price, Major
Shepperson, Mr.
*Skelton, Mr.
Stamford, Mr.

Stuart, Lord Colum Crichton-
Sugden, Sir Wilfrid

Sykes, Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick
Tomlinson, Mr.

Ward, Lieut.-Colonel Lambert
Watts, Dr.

Wayland, Sir William

Williams, Mr. C. P.

Williams, Mr. John

Yerburgh, Major

* Added in respect of the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Bill [Lords.]

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REPORT.

STANDING COMMITTEE C, to whom the AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [Lords] was referred;-Have gone through the Bill and made Amendments thereunto.

22nd May, 1928.

STANDING COMMITTEE C.

Tuesday, 15th May, 1928.

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Major Sir RICHARD BARNETT in the Chair.

Lieut.-Commander Astbury
Mr. Braithwaite
Captain Briscoe
Mr. Broad

Brigadier-General Brooke
Major George Davies

Sir Thomas Davies

Mr. Dean

Mr. Guinness

Mr. Hollins

Mr. Johnston
Sir George Jones
Mr. Lamb

Mr. Lee

Brigadier-General Makins
Mr. Malone

Sir Frank Nelson
Sir John Power
Major Price

Mr. Shepperson
Mr. Skelton

Sir Wilfrid Sugden
Mr. Tomlinson
Mr. John Williams
Major Yerburgh

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) BILL [LORDS].

Clause 1.

Amendment proposed, in page 1, line 14, at the end, to insert the words :

"Provided that a draft of such regulations shall be published and shall not come into force until the expiration of six months thereafter "-(Mr. Johnston).

Question, "That those words be there inserted,"-put, and negatived.

Clause agreed to.

Clause 2, agreed to.

Clause 3.

Amendment made, in page 3, lines 7 and 8, by leaving out the words "thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight," and by inserting the words "twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine "-(Mr. Guinness),-instead thereof.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 4.

Amendment made, in page 3, line 37, by leaving out all the words from the word "are to the word "and" in line 39, and by inserting the words "registered premises" -(Mr. Guinness),-instead thereof.

Another Amendment proposed, in page 4, line 1, to leave out paragraph (b), in order to insert the words :

"(b) it shall not be lawful to cause eggs, which

have been kept in cold storage or chemical