Holiday Period Ruling by Next Season
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AFTER the present holiday season, a further proposal concerning the period during which annual holidays may be taken by road haulage workers is to be issued to give ample time to ensure that a decision of the Road Haulage Wages Council on the matter will be put into effect before the 1957 season.
.12,11.(57) has now been issued, proposing that all overtime work on Saturdays be paid for at time-and-ahalf. Regions of the Transport and General Workers' Union are considering the up-grading of various grade 2 areas.
In the building industry, employers have raised the subsistence allowance of haulage workers by Is. 6d., making the new rate 14s. It is to come into effect on September 3. A draft constitution concerning transport workers in the ready-mixed concrete industry has been considered with some of the employers concerned, and it is hoped to form a national joint industrial council.
Dairy transport workers employed by the Co-operative Wholesale Society are to be paid an extra 1 Is. a week, and a similar rise will be enjoyed by persons employed at the country creameries of the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., and United Dairies, Ltd.
GLASS FIBRE REPAIR KIT THE latest addition to the wide range 1 of goods handled by Douglas Holt (Est. 1919), Ltd., New Addington, Surrey, is a glass-fibre repair kit. It contains a tin of Cataloy powder and a tin of Cataloy liquid, together with a supply of two kinds of glass-fibre material.
Cataloy can be used on its own as a filler, but where damaged bodywork is concerned the repair is made with the addition of the glass-fibre. No skill is reunited. The kit sells for 18s. 8d.
£340,000 Garage for Liverpool ?
THE Minister of Transport's permission is to be sought by Liverpool Corporation to build a bus garage on the East Lancashire Road, at a cost of approximately 040,000. The proposed garage would hold 200 vehicles serving the Kirkby estate and surrounding districts.
The corporation are also acquiring property near the city .centre with the object of having buses stationed there for use during peak hours, thus saving mileage.
The construction of a £170,000 garage at Speke is now well under way. This is to provide facilitie, for buses running south of the city.
B.T.C. LOSE APPEAL
AN appeal by the British Transport Commission, against the grant of an additional picking-up and settingdown point at Butlin's Camp, Firey, on an express service run by the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., has been refused, with costs, by the Minister of Transport. The service runs between Barnsley and Scarborough.