VALUABLE R.H.A. WORK IN CORNWALL
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THE stabilization of wages by the setting up of the Devon and Cornwall Joint Conciliation Board and the fixing of rates were two important steps mentioned by Mr. Humphrey Cooke, area secretary, in a report of the past year's work of the Mid-Cornwall Subarea of the Road Haulage Association, which was presented at the annual general meeting, at St. Austell, last week.
The Rates Board, he said, was now functioning and doing good. work, Another encouraging sign was that the
Association was becoming recognized by the Western Licensing Authority.
In 1934, the membership in Devon and Cornwall was 425, of which there were 63 members in Mid-Cornwall, but there were now 654 members in the two counties, of which 81 were in Mid-Cornwall. Throughout Devon and Celiawall, 43 per cent, of the operators were in the Association, whilst in the Mid. Cornwall area the R.H.A. had 50-percent. membership.
Mr. W. R. G. Hawke was re-elected chairman and Mr. 'R. W. Fennaraore
(Plymouth) secretary of the subarea. Messrs. Hawke, C. Hodgson and either R. G. Facey or J. Williams were elected delegates to the Area Committee, while Messrs. C. Sellick and Wilson were chosen as representatives to the Devon and Cornwall Conciliation Board.
The committee was constituted as follows:—Messrs. G. J. Smith, C. Hodgson, J. T. Johns, C. Wilson, T. Rowett, N. E. May, C. Storey, R. W. Kemble, MeFadyean, C. Sellick. J. Williams, Hill and a representative of the Veryan Road Transport Co. c45