OFFER TO SACRIFICE BUSINESS • FOR RAIL POSTS.
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" If you will give my sons work on the railway, I am prepared to give up the lorries." That was the offer made by a South Shields woman haulier to the L.N.E. Railway Company's representative, at Newcastle, last Friday, when the railway company objected to the renewal of her licence. Her husband is a railwayman, and she informed the Northern Licensing Authority (Sir John Maxwell) that the names of her two sons had been " down for employment with the railway company since they left school."
Should Ministry Foot ,Road Debts?
Fife County Road Board has decided to support the Association of County Councils in Scotland in its attitude towards the Government's Trunk Roads Bill. It is strongly urged by the Association that liability for loan charges attaching to trunk roads should be assumed by the Ministry of Transport.
Representations are to be made to have the Great North Road within the county listed as a trunk road.
Fifty Per Cent. Traffic Growth in Five Years.
Continuous growth in the volume of road traffic is shown by the 15th annual road census, conducted by the Automobile Association early in September. The census was taken over a period of seven days of 11 hours each, and it shows that there was an increase of 49,2 per cent. in the total of traffic since 1931. The figures for each year are as follow :— The 1936 total is made up of 63 per cent, private cars and 18.7 per cent. commercial vehicles.
Railways Belittle Road Service.
Further hearing of the application of the White Line Transport Co., Falkirk, for the renewal and variation of its A licences took place in Edinburgh on December 2 and 3 before Mr. A. Henderson, Southern Scotland Licensing Authority.
Mr. W. Weir, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., submitted that railway facilities in Falkirk were ample. He criticized the evidence of Mr. C. W. Gibbs, secretary to the applicant company, that the road-transport rates had been reduced as a result of railway competition. The railway rates had been reduced only in November, 1935, as a result of roadtransport cuts.
Mr. James Taylor, for the applicant, said that the rail case was that their traffic was not so high as it might be, and, therefore, their competitor should be put off the road. Such argument was contrary to the Act and to the spirit of justice.
Decision was reserved.
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