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11th November 1932, Page 101
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The new luxury tax of 10 per cent. imposed on motor vehicles imported into Yugoslavia is not applicable to lorries.

Further powers are to be sought by Manchester Corporation for tramways abandonment and with regard to operating trolley-buses.

Farnham Urban District Council has agreed upon a revised route for the proposed by-pass, which is 2-ir miles long and is estimated to cost £82,500.

A recent traffic census in Barking showed an increase in the general traffic in the district of 10.37 per cent., as compared with the figure of a year ago.

Lancaster Corporation has requested the chief constable to put into operaam. so soon as possible, a scheme for unilateral parking in Penny Street, for relieving congestion of traffic. Douglas (I.O.M.) Corporation js to provide facilities for the Isle of Man Road Services, Ltd., to park its buses in Lord Street, at a rental of /150 per year.

The Government of Hong Kong has imposed, under the Ottawa agreements, a special 20 per cent. ad valorem licence duty on newly registered foreign motor vehicles; ' Pembroke County Council is to frame by-laws to prevent the multiplication of petrol pumps on main roads, to control their design and to prohibit them in certain areas.

In the next Parliamentary session, Middlesbrough Corporation will promote a new Bill, one of the clauses of which will provide for power to substitute trolley-buses for trains. The London and North Eastern Railway Co. has placed a contract with the Buda Co. (England), of Wembley, for 37 rail motor trolleys.

Tottenham's Crossley ambulance, which was purchased in 1920, has covered 138,172 miles. A sub-committee is to report upon the ambulance service generally.

Portsmouth Corporation's transport committee has approved plans for the construction of the proposed central depot adjoining the Eastern Road. The work is estimated to cost £46,700.

Wool is being used for road-making by the council of Moree, New South Wales, Australia. When treated in a special way, it is said to set as hard as concrete, and an experimental section of roadway is being laid.