M.O.F. Rates for Fish Haulage
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THE Scottish Carriers and Haulage Contractors Association is actively defending its members against an extraordinary attitude on the part of the Ministry of Food. It appears that a haulier in Ayr, on rendering his account for the carriage of fish, had that account returned by the Ministry of Food with a request that it should be amended in accordance with a schedule of rates lower than those charged by the haulier. The Ministry stated that these rates had been agreed upon by a fish hauliers
association in Newhaven. _ The Scottish Association immediately pointed out to the Ministry of Food that its organizatioa Was a • national one, that the rates for the car riage Of all classes of goods, including fish, between Glasgow and Ayr, had already been fixed; that these rates had been passed by the Road and Rail Regional Rates Committee and submitted to the Central Conference of that Committee. No other schedule of rates was recognized by members of the Association and no other rates had been presented by the Regional Rates Committee.
The Association is at a loss to know why the Ministry of Food should contact some lesser-known haulage association and agree rates without making any reference whateier to the national Association which is operating in Scotland.