The chief opposition to the Bill was raised in the
interests of the Dock and Harbour Boards. MY. T. P. O'Connor spoke on Monday for the Mersey Dock Board and Sir Edward Carson on Tuesday for the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, forgetting their old politioaldifferences in the defence of the undertakings of which their constituencies are justly proud. Mr. Joymeon-Ilioks objected on behalf of the road authorities and road-users to " autocratic " control, but Sir Eric Geddes's announcement that the roads would be supervised by a separate Department under General Maybury, the military road-maker who did wonders in France, had evidently conciliated the opposition. There was little criticism of the main proposal for unified control of the railways. Mr. Boner Law, concluding the debate on Tuesday, warned the House that the Bill involved a complete change of economic policy, but the House gave it a second reading without a division. We discuss the measure elsewhere.
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