SEVERN TOLLS PETITION REJECTED
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Traders Road Transport Assoc:a
tion and the Road Haulage Association are consider:ng briefing Members of Parliament to press their points of view on the Severn Tolls Bill, tenoning the rejection of the Associations' joint pet lion against certain features in the Bill. The petition objected to the lack of a time limit for toll collection or its relationship to expenditure, and the lack of any provision for interested associations to make representations at a public inquiry or to the Ministry of Transport It was rejected at a sitting of a Parliamentary Select Committee.
It was conceded by Crown Counsel that the Associations had a right of appeal at any public inquiry but he successfully ma:ntained that they had no toms Atandi because they were not "persons in the immediate district" (of the Severn Bridge).
The TRTA and RHA feel that the matter raises important questions of principle on the introduction and administration of tolls, and are not content to let it rest there.
SYMBOL OF ENTERPRISE
" you could not have a better symbol
of private enterprise than the road haulage industry and its organization. You express the case for private enterprise just because you do it." The Shadow Minister of Transport, Mr. Enoch Powell, told this to the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses at the annual lunch in London on Tuesday.
Other speakers were Lord Erroll, Mr. Peter Walker, MP, and Mr. R. W. Tree.
At the annual meeting, Mr. Walker was re-elected president. Vice-presidents are: Mr. Steve Eastmead, Mr. J. W. Ellis, Mr. T. W. Jackson and Mr. J. A. Kirby.