FROM STANDING COMMITTEE A ON THE Rent Restrictions (Notices of Increase) Bill WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 21st March, 1923. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from 28, ABINGDON STREET, LONDON, S.W. 1; 37, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER; 1, ST. ANDREW'S CRESCENT, CARDIFF; or 120, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH. STANDING COMMITTEE A. RENT RESTRICTIONS (NOTICES OF INCREASE) BILL.Read a second time, and committed to a Standing Committee on the 22nd February, and allocated by Mr. Speaker to the Committee on the 26th February. The Committee was constituted as follows: *Added in respect of the Rent Restrictions (Notices of Increase) Bill. REPORT. STANDING COMMITTEE A, to whom the RENT RESTRICTIONS (NOTICES OF INCREASE) BILL was referred; -Have gone through the Bill and made Amendments thereunto. 21st March, 1923. STANDING COMMITTEE A. Thursday, 1st March, 1923. MEMBERS PRESENT: Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON in the Chair. Mr. Attorney-General Sir Rowland Blades Mr. Buckle Mr. Rhys Davies Captain Elliot Mr. Fermor-Hesketh Mr. Fildes Mr. Ford Lieut.-Colonel Fremantle Mr. James Gardiner Mr. Duncan Graham Mr. Harbord Mr. Harrison Sir Ernest Hiley Mr. Hill Col. Sir Arthur Holbrook Mr. William Hutchison Amendment proposed, in page 1, line 6, after the word "rent," to insert the words "on account of an increase in rates "-(Mr. Rhys Davies).- Question put, "That those words be there inserted."-The Committee divided: Mr. Buckle Mr. Duncan Graham Mr. Kirkwood Ayes, 20. Mr. McEntee Sir Alfred Mond Mr. John Robertson Mr. James Stewart Mr. Attorney-General Sir Rowland Blades Major Cope Mr. Fermor-Hesketh Lieut.-Colonel Fremantle Sir George Hamilton Mr. Harrison Sir Ernest Hiley Noes, 42. Col. Sir Arthur Holbrook Sir Joseph Hood Lieut.-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston Mr. William Hutchison Mr. Lamb Mr. Lorden Sir Francis Lowe Sir William Lane Mitchell Sir Robert Newman Sir William Raeburn Lieut.-Col. Lambert Ward Major Wheler Mr. Wise [Adjourned until Tuesday next, at 11 o'clock. |