Part of Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 August 1947.
Mr Hartley Shawcross
, St Helens
12:00,
1 August 1947
I understood that the hon. Member for West Aberdeen (Mr. Thornton-Kemsley) was referring to cattle, and it did strike me as a little amusing to think of the cattle labouring under a burden of apprehension as to what would happen to them.
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