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Resolution reported:
"That it is expedient—(a) to extend by twelve months the period in respect of which subsidies are payable under Part I of the British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935, as amended by the British Shipping (Continuance of Subsidy) Act, 1936; and (b) to make provision for the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such sums, not exceeding in the aggregate two million pounds, as may be necessary to defray the cost of subsidies payable as aforesaid in respect of tramp voyages and parts of tramp voyages carried out in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of any expenses incurred in respect of that year by or on behalf of the Board of Trade under the said Part I."
Resolution agreed to.
Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolution by Mr. Runciman, Lieut.-Colonel Colville and Dr. Burgin.
Brtish Shipping (Continuance Of Subsidy) Bill
"to extend by twelve months the period in respect of which subsidies are payable under Part I of the British Shipping (Assistance) Act, 1935, as amended by the British Shipping (Continuance of Subsidy) Act, 1936, and to provide for the payment of such subsidies and of the expenses of the Board of Trade under the said Part I in respect of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven out of moneys provided by Parliament," presented accordingly, and read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Thursday, and to be printed. [Bill No. 72.]