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the meetings of these licensing ;ph-committees in three traffic areas, but the procedure has been, invariably, that of a friendly discussion towards reaching an amicable agreement amongst all concerned.
feel that the thought which produced this unofficial form of arbitration was inspired by the urgent desire of the railway companies and the Road Haulage Association to demonstrate to the Government and the man in the street their joint ability to manage their own affairs. Unfortunately, they have devised something which, like the small boy with a sharp and dangerous “tia knife, they should be persuaded to drop or be forcibly deprived of.
The composition of these licensing sub-committees appears to be of railway representatives and of hauliers who have knowledge of or actually operate in the same district as the applicant. The second factor gives to the proceedings, in my opinion, a sinister angle and I suggest that those applicants who find themselves unable to resist an invitation to attend these meetings should inquire the identity of everyone present before discussing their own affairs. This will be but. an elementary precaution and they are entitled to such information. . .