Opposition to New Coach Station ?
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Ir is likely that Finsbury and Islington Borough Councils will oppose the use of a site in Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, as a coach station. The site is being prepared by Park Developments, Ltd., for use in the New Year when the Judd Street station is to close. Finsbury was to discuss the matter yesterday.
CONGESTION KILLING EFFICIENCY QTREET congestion in Manchester L) reduced the efficiency and profitability of transport, observed Mr. C. J. Parker at an Institute of Traffic Administration dinner in the city on Tuesday. The Institute wish to assist the city council in solving that problem, and Mr. Parker believed that they might be able to suggest short-term means for alleviating the difficulties.
Aid. J. E. Fitzsimons said that the investigation suggested by the I.o.T.A. would assist industry and the public. .
Mr. E. H. Burn, national chairman, welcomed Lord Merivale, I.o.T.A. president, on his first visit to the city.
Lord Merivale is making a tour of several provincial centres. On Wednesday morning he and Mr. Burn were received by the Lord Mayor of Manchester. Later they attended a gathering of the Preston centre. A meeting with the Glasgow centre was arranged for last night and tonight (Friday) they will be present at a Liverpool function.
DIRECTORS DREW TOO MUCH
REFUSING an application by I N. Hebridean Transport, Ltd., Stornoway, for permission to increase workmen's fares on five services, the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. Robertson, said that the amounts paid to the directors were excessive.
Counsel for the applicants said that nine directors, who each received 120 a month plus 15 expenses, were really operators who, at the suggestion of the Authority, had formed the company to prevent cut-throat competition. • "ALL IN THE SAME BOAT"
" WE in industry are all in the same boat — shareholders, management and workers—and a very grave responsibility rests on any one of us who starts boring holes in the boat at a time when the storm of foreign competition is _rising. We must all, and at all times, cultivate a sense of responsibility—to the nation and to each other."
Sir William Rootes, chairman of Rootes Motors, Ltd., said this on Tuesday. He stated that "dark clouds" had arisen on the industrial horizon.
OBITUARY WE regret to record the death of MR. YV WILL ROSSON, service manager of Fodens, Ltd.'