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Weights Changes Rejected
WHEN the House of Lords returned to the Weights and Measures Bill after the Whitsun recess, Lord Stonham moved an amendment to continue the powers which inspectors possessed under local by-laws, to check-weigh vehicles. Under the Bill as it now stood, an inspector would not even be able to intercept vehicles immediately after they had left the public weighbridge to check that they had been weighed correctly. The amendment was a necessary addition to avoid providing yet another loophole. Resisting the change, Lord Derwent, Minister of State, Board of Trade, said that in the Government's view the Bill already contained ample provisions for inspectors to check-weigh vehicles.
The amendment was rejected by 38 votes to 16 and Lord Stonham himself withdrew another amendment which would have removed from the Bill the exemption from the need to give written quantity statements in sales from a road vehicle of solid and wood fuel in quantities of less than 2 cwt. and of liquid fuel not exceeding 5 gal.