40 New Members a Month for Yorks A.R.O.
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DURING the past five months new L./members enrolled in the Yorkshire Area of A.R.Q. have averaged 40 per month, stated Mr. R. W. Sewill, national director, at a luncheon in Leeds on Wednesday. At this function, Mr. Sewill and Major the Hon. Eric Long, political adviser of A.R.O., met the members of the newly constituted Yorkshire Passenger Sectional Board. Mr. Sewill added that the Area had the highest proportion of active members of any area of A.R.O., and already in four months this year the Yorkshire organization had collected subscriptions equivalent to approximately 50 per cent. of the total subscription income of the area in 1936. Yorkshire headed the list of subscriptions and membership renewals.
Mr. Swill and Major Long also addressed a Yorkshire mass meeting of operators and users of road trans port, which was held under the auspices of A.R.O. in Leeds on Wednesday evening, when protests were made against the restrictive effect of roadtransport legislation and administration, Mr. Sewill emphasized that before one could talk of co-ordination between road and other forms of transport, there must be stability in the road-transport industry. There could be no stability, however, so long as present anomalies and injustices, which abounded under the 1933 Act, were allowed to continue.
Major Long, referring to the interference to which operators were subject by reason of the Act, said that cases continually coming to the notice of A.R.O. showed that the Act was having a prejudicial effect not only upon the businesses of hauliers, but also upon the trade of the country as a whole.