Part of Orders of the Day — Dog Racecourse Betting (Temporary Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 March 1947.
Lieut-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam
, Newcastle upon Tyne North
12:00,
21 March 1947
I beg to move, in page 2, line 42, to leave out "one in the afternoon," and to insert "twelve noon."
When he moved the Second Reading of this Bill, the Home Secretary told us that he had intended originally to fix the hour at two o'clock, but had then been in conversation with the greyhound racing authorities and that they had compromised with the hour of one o'clock.
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