ORDER OF REFERENCE. [Friday, 8th April, 1927]:-Architects (Registration) Bill,— Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words upon this day six Question proposed, "That the word ' now Question":-Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Main Question put, and agreed to:-Bill accordingly read a Bill committed to a Select Committee.-(Sir Clement Kinloch- [Thursday, 28th April, 1927]:-Architects (Registration) Bill, -Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, Mr. Gardner, Mr. William Hirst. Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Mr. Lindley, Sir Murdoch Macdonald, Colonel Moore, Sir Frederick Rice, Mr. Tasker, Captain Wallace, and Dr. Watts nominated Members of the Select Committee on the Architects (Registration) Bill. SPECIAL REPORT. The SELECT COMMITTEE to whom the Architects (Registration) Bill was referred have agreed to the following Special Report. 1. Your Committee regret that they are unable to report the Architects (Registration) Bill to the House. 2. Your Committee have met on 14 days and have examined 20 witnesses and have also considered Memoranda put in by various bodies and persons. Amongst the witnesses were representatives from the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural Association, London, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, the County Councils Association, the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, the Institute of Builders, the Faculty of Architects and Surveyors, the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers and Landed Property Agents, the Association of Consulting Engineers and the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress; other individual witnesses were also heard. Your Committee have agreed to report the whole of this evidence to the House. 3. In view of the fact that the Clauses of the Bill had been amended by the Committee in the light of the evidence submitted, and that the final vote of five to four not to report the Bill to the House does not represent the views of the Committee of eleven Members as a whole, your Committee hope that an early opportunity will be given to the House next Session of considering a Bill framed on the lines of this Bill as amended. 62446 A 2 Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH-COOKE was called to the Chair. The Committee deliberated. Major HARRY BARNES, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., examined. [Adjourned till Wednesday, 18th May. Major HARRY BARNES, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., further examined. [Adjourned till Tuesday, 24th May. Mr. NORMAN SCORGIE, M.INST.C.E., Sir Frederick Rice. Dr. Watts. and Mr. EDWARD WILLIS, M.INST.C.E., F.S.I., on behalf of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, examined. Major HARRY BARNES, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., further examined. Mr. W. FORBES CAMPBELL, President of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, and Major G. B. J. ATHOE, General Secretary of the same, examined. [Adjourned till Tuesday, 31st May. Mr. W. FORBES CAMPBELL and Major G. B. J. ATHOE further examined. Mr. F. E. R. BICKNELL examined. Mr. JOHN HATLEY and Mr. JOHN STEVENSON, on behalf of the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers and Landed Property Agents, examined. [Adjourned till Tuesday, 21st June. 62446 Lieut.-Colonel Sir CHARLES L. MORGAN, C.B.E., Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and Mr. W. F. SPEAR, Assistant Secretary of the same, examined. Sir EDMUND TURTON, BART., a Member of the House, Chairman of the Executive Council of the County Councils Association, examined. Mr. P. J. SPENCER, B.A., Secretary of the Institute of Builders, examined. Mr. W. G. PERCY, Fellow of the Faculty of Architects and Surveyors, Mr. H. B. WHITFIELD, General Secretary of the same, and Mr. A. E. SOCKETT, examined. Sir CHARLES ALLOM examined. Mr. W. ERNEST LORD examined. [Adjourned till to-morrow. |