Nationalization in Cuba Fails
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THE Cuban Government has not yet imposed the fares increases which are neededeto make the two Havana bus companies solvent. There is widespread dissatisfaction with the service provided by the two concerns—Autobuses Modernos and Omnibus Aliados —and nationalization of Autobuses Modernos has failed to make the undertaking pay its way.
Three civic associations have withdrawn from the administrative council of Autobuses Modernos, which they were invited to join when the company was nationalized. • They say that the behaviour of the workers and the leniency shown towards them make it impossible for the associations to accept any further responsibility.
• The number of Leyland buses supplied to Autobuses Modernos has been slightly reduced from the original 620.
CONTRACTORS REPLACE COMMITTEE SERVICES
AGR1CULTURA2 contractors were being encourit•V to take over the coral-act activities of the county agricultural committees, said Lord Carrington, Joint Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculuture, last Friday. Contractors could, he pointed out, provide services more economically and efficiently than the Ministry, and could often do work more cheaply than farmers could themselves.
Lord Carrington was speaking at the second annual dinner of the British Agricultural Contractors' Association. He added that the Association and the Ministry had each been studying contract costs and the results bore a remarkable similarity.
Mr. Anthony Hurd, M.P.. declared that the farming industry needed further impetus. He stressed the saving to farmers -which agricultural contractors could offer.
Sir Richard Haddon referred to the "phenomenal progress " of the Association, which in two years had acquired 1,300 members. The Association had. he said, been built up and flourished on youthful ideas. He hoped that a national scale of charges would be
prepared. . . • B.R.S. DRIVERS SAFE
SIX1 EEN drivers of British Road Services were presented, last week, with awards for safe driving for periods between 25 and 30 years. Out of. 36,530 B.R.S. drivers, 15,000 qualified in 1950 for awards for up to 1t . years' safe drivink.
DISTRIBUTION Cosis A PAPER on distribution costs is to beread by Mr. C. Courtney Cramp to the London branch of the Industrial Transport Association on January 15 at 6.30 p.m. at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street. London, W.C.2. •