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THURSDAY evening's conference 1 banquet at the Winter Garden was all that a banquet should be. Margate Corporation gave of its best_
Mr. R. s. Hudson proposed the health of the Federation and three associations. He said that it was a tribute to the efficiency of road transport that so few people outside the Government ever took any interest in it! Efficient internal transport was the secret of productivity and industry would soon be facing a buyers' market.
One would have thought that the practical thing for the Government to do was to experiment by nationalizing one industry and then waiting to sec the result. The victory was not yet won, nor the battle lost, although the greatest difficulty was that operators did not yet know the case against them.
Mr. Duffield, replying, said that the Government had not answered the memorandum, because it did not know how to do so. Of all the industries threatened, road transport was the first to fight back Interesting and sometimes humorous speeches were also made by Viscount Long of Wraxall, Lord Sandhurst, 0.B.E., Ald. Cornford, Sir F. Handley Page, C.B.E., Col. Jerrett and Mr. Speight.
Lord Sandhurst said that everyone must remember the part that the women were playing. They, too, would be the first to feel the effects of nationalization, particularly on their housekeeping, but also because there would be only one employer for their husbands., if their husbands got the " sack," they would not be able to try another firm!
On the matter of highways, he said that the roads should be made to fit the traffic.