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make the scandal of the groundnuts scheme pale into insignificance in the not-far-distant future," said Mr. H. T Campbell Wardlaw, a well-known Newcastle-on-Tyne solicitor, at the annual dinner of the West Cumberland Sub-area of the Road
Haulage Association. He made this remark "advisedly, and with a certain amount of knowledge."
He continued! "Wherever we look we see • muddle and confusion. The industry is being taken away from people who were brought up to it frOm childhood. They are being sacked summarily by the Road Haulage Executive because ' of the spirit of independence they are displaying and the industry will shortly be run by people who have no idea of a lorry My remarks are not hot air; they are actual fact. People built up great businesses and made dividends, but now appalling losses are being shown and passed on to the taxpayer.
"The 9d. on petrol is the clearest sign of failure that any Government could have given to the nation—an indication that the nationalization of transport cannot succeed—and they have had to resort to this method of taxation to drive traffic on to the railways to bolster up nationalization now on the road to complete failure."