Mr. MacDONALD:

Would the Foreign Secretary state what business the Government propose to take to-morrow and Friday?

The business will be:

Thursday: Estimates for the Dominions Office, Colonial Office, Empire Marketing, and Overseas Settlement will be considered in Committee of Supply.

Friday: Second Reading of the Agricultural Rates Bill; Gas Undertakings Bill (Lords), and, if there is time, other Orders on the Paper.

Ordered, That the Proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Means be exempted, at this day's Sitting, from the provisions of the Standing Order (Sittings of the House)."—[Sir A. Chamberlain.]