School Services : Who Should Pay ?
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THE question whether the responsibility for conveying children to school in outlying districts of North Wales rested with the local bus company or with the education authority was raised in a case heard before the Northwestern Licensing Authority recently.
Crosville Motor Services. Ltd., had applied for the renewal of licences to operate on certain routes. Conway Valley local authorities opposed these applications and asked for new services for school children. The authorities produced evidence of hardship because of the lack of facilities, but Crosville claimed that an additional .daily service would involve the company in a loss.
A headmaster of a local school stated that whilst he thought the responsibility for providing transport for children should rest with local authorities, the Crosville concern should be prepared to take the rough with the smooth as it held a monopoly .of transport in the district.
Mr. W. Blackhurst said that the company would re-examine the position to ascertain whether the proposed services would be profitable and would be pleased if the way could be paved Mr them to be inaugurated.
Decision was reserved until the company had reviewed the position.
THIS MONTH'S I.R.T.E. MEETINGS DECEMBER branch meetings of the Institute of Road 1ransport Engineers are as follows:— December 5, lecture on petrol injection forroad vehicles, by C. K. Martlew, A.M.I.Mech.E., Institute of Shipbuilders and Engineers, Glasgow, 7.30 p.m.
December 14, lecture on lubricants and fuels for oil engines, by R. J. Ginn, Engineers' Club, Manchester, 7 p.m. Lecture on tyre maintenance, by R. C. Robinson, Crown Inn, Broad Street, Rirrningham, 7 p.m.
December 15, open meeting, Metropole Hotel, Leeds, 7 p:m. Lecture on standardization, by H. Clutterbuck, Royal Society of Arts, London. W.C., 6.30 p.m.
• December 30, lecture on welding. by O. Cobb, Vane Arms Hotel, Stocktonon-Tees, 7 p.m.
RAILWAY EXECUTIVE IN TWO APPEALS VOUR appeals will be heard by the Appeal Tribunal at Halifax House, Strand, London, W.C.2 next week.
In the first case, to take place on December 6, the Railway Executive and live transport companies are respondents in an appeal by Ely Transport, Ltd., against a decision of the South Wales Licensing Authority,
The Railway. Executive, together with Hay's Wharf Cartage Co., Ltd., and four other companies, is also a respondent in an appeal by Messrs. W. H. Sheard against a decision of the North-western Deputy Licensing Authority. This ca,se will he heard on December 8.
• HOLLAND-GERMANY BY BUS IN co-operation with the German State Railways, G.A.D,O., a subsidiary company of the Netherlands Railways, has opened the first international bus service to be introduced since the war. It runs between Groningen and Bremen, linking two important districts in the northern parts of Holland and Germany. It enables people in Groningen to travel to Bremen and back in a day.
In the first month about 500 passengers were carried. Use of this service is being restricted by the present regulations covering travel to Germany.
MECHANICAL HANDLING CONVENTION PLANS TICKETS for the Second Mechanical I Handling Convention, to be held at Olympia from June 6-17, 1950, will be available free. Eight hundred seats will be reserved in the National Hall.
The provisional programme of subjects for discussion includes the following:—June 7, production and mechanical handling. June 12, questions and answers on handling of materials. June 13, industrial relations and mechanical handling. June 15, industrial trucking.