HAULIERS' MUTUAL FEDERATION; FIRST PUBLIC MEETING O NJanuary 27, at 11
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a.m., a public meeting of the newly formed Hauliers' Mutual Federation, which is open to all professional hauliers. is to be held in Waterloo Hall, Waterloo Street, Leicester. Mr. F. Lucas, chairman of the Federation, will be present and will be supported by Mr, J. Arnold Kirby and other members of the Provisional Council. The need for the new Association, its purpose, and its objects will be explained by Mr. H. Scott Hall.
PROPOSALS CONCERNING CONDUCTORS
CE1TAIN • discussions have been going on between the M. of WI. and the two Joint Industrial Councils concerned, regarding three proposals which have been made to the Ministry with reference to bus conductors.
The first was that the age should .be reduced to 17, but it is unlikely that this will receive approval. The second is , that 'Commissioners should be given discretion to dispense with the use of a conductor in certain cases. The third is that the driver should be permitted, on the one licence, to a&, when necessary, as a conductor. It is possible that the latter two proposals may receive favourable consideration.
TYRE MANUFACTURERS' SALVAGE APPEAL
THE Tyre Manufacturers' Conference is making an appeal -that the Millions of tubes of rubber solution employed for repairing motor and cycle tyres should, when empty,be salvaged, by dropping them into a bin at the nearest chemist, as is done, or should be done, with tubes for tOothpaste. All profits on the sale of this salvaged material, will go to the Red Cross D n d Si. John Fund.
GOVERNMENT SCHEME MUST NOT CREATE MONOPOLIES _ STATING that the Road Transport • Section of the Leeds Incorporated Chamber of Commerce is investigating the Government Scheme for the control. of long-distance haulage, the Chamber's annual report states that whilst the need for some direct Government intervention is recognized, " the general view of the ection is that the utmost use should, be made of the collective experience of the industry and, more . important, that the present arrangements should not lead,to the establishment of monopolies and the elimination of individual contractors, or to undue restriction on C-licence holders.''
FORTHCOMING A,R.O. MEETINGS fEETINGS of Associated Road 1V1 Operators have been planned for the following dates :—Jinuary 25, at , Liverpool; January 26, at Manchester; February 18, in the Devon 'and Corn; wall area. At each, of these meetings . .Mr. R. W. Sewill, director of A.R.O:, will speak. The meeting at Manchestei will be under the joint auspices of the East Lanes Area of A.R.O., and the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners Association.