A PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS LICENSING DIFFICULTIES
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The M.H.C.S.A. Again Leads the Way to Organized Effort by Calling Operators Together IN our issue for last week we referred to the intention of the Motor Hirers' and Coach Services Association to hold a general meeting of members to consider various emergency measures that
might be taken for the protection of the interests of public-service vehicle operators, particularly in view of the problems of licensing with which they are faced and the doubtful outlook for 1932.
It has now been decided to .take the opportunity afforded by the statutory meeting which has to be held following the recent incorporation of the association. This statutory meeting is to take place in the Great Hal!, Cannon Street Hotel, London, E.C.4, at 6.30 p.m., on Monday, September 28th, and it is to be followed by a meeting open not only to all members but also to all operators of public-service vehicles, and, in fact, all interested in road passenger transport.
The proceedings at 6.30 p.m will be opened by a short address by Mr. H. T. Rickards, president of the Association. At 6.45 p.m. a resolution is to be moved that the committee of management be reduced in number ; this committee at present comprises 24 members. At 7.15 p.m. voting will take place for the
offices of president and vice-president, also for the committee of management. At 7.40 p.m. consideration will be given to the advisability of changing the title of the association. It is thought that this title is confusing to the uninitiated, and that a title incorporating the words " public-service vehicle" would be more suitable.
The preliminary proceedings are timed to conclude by 8 p.m., and that is when the meeting will be resolved into an open one. Those present will be addressed upon the requirements of organization amongst operators, particu
larly in the light of experience gained during the past six months. It is to be hoped that Mr. M. Logette, who was chairman of the management committee but had to give up his position for reasons of health, will be well enough not only to attend but to speak on this oecasion.
The present idea is that there will be but few speakers, and their addresses will be brief, dealing only with the practical difficulties and practical means for facing them. It is intended to give any operator present who feels that the administration of the
Road Traffic Act, 1930, has caused him to receive definitely unfair treatment an opportunity for stating his case, 'so that the evening may conclude with a categorization of the chief licensing difficulties and the possibilities of combating them.
Tip to the time of going to press, the M.H.C.S.A. has received no reply to its letter addressed to the Minister of Transport suggesting that he should hold a conference of all chairmen of Traffic Commissioners. This letter was referred to on page 148 of our issue for last week.