LONDON TRANSPORT'S APPEAL TO HOP-PICKERS
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BECAUSE of the more pressing demands for war workers transport elsewhere, it has not been possible, this year, to provide the usual augmented road-transport services to the hopfields. By travelling on the normal road services, therefore, hop-pickers are causing hardship to regular riders who rely on the vehicles to take them to and from their daily work.
London Transport asks hop-pickers to use the railway services for, any essential travel. They are also asked not to use the restricted road services for pleasure riding and the other social amenities usually associated with hoppicking.
DO NOT RESTRICT YOUR SAVING TO BUS TICKETS 'THE saving of tickets for the pulping I machines need not be confined only to buses. Any form of ticket, such as those giving admission to dog-racing meetings and other places of amusement, which are not collected on entry, should be retained and handed over or placed in the nearest salvage receptacle. It may be mentioned that the Waste Paper Recovery Association points out that 1,000 admission tickets to greyhound meetings, if pulped, can be made into 500 wads for cartridges.
MINISTRY'S LATEST MEMORANDUM ON WELDING.
WELDING is pi:oving invaluable as 111' an aid to increasing production. It is saving material and labour and, in some cases, has multiplied production several times by cutting out bottle
necks in machining capacity. Spot welding, in particular, is widely employed for the manufacture of repetition products-, and a memorandum on the inspection of spot welds, lately issued by the Ministry of Supply, pro'ides summary of the factors which affect the quality of spot welding and gives methods for controlling and inspecting spot-welded work.
Welding memoranda are distributed free to contractors and to Government departments. Copies may be obtained from the Advisory Service on Welding, Ministry of Supply, Berkeley Court, Glentworth Street, London, N.W.I. This Advisory Service is available to give advice on the design and manufacture of welded stores and to assist contractors to obtain the highest rate of output.
MORE WOMEN CONDUCTORS NEEDED IN LONDON ("VER. 9,000 women have now V replaced men as London Transport conductors_ and more are wanted urgently for bus, trolleybus and tram setvices in all districts. Women should be over 31 years old and physics ally fit. .Pay begins at £4 3s. 8d, a week and rises to N 19s., which is the male conductor's maximum rate. Among London's women conductors are many who have come from the Dominions and ,Colonies.
WAGES AGREED FOR POST OFFICE WOMEN MECHANICS
AN agreement has been made between the Post Office Engineering Union and the Post Office Department on the wages of women 'road-transport_ mechanics and garage assistants, who are taking the places of men called up for active service. The mechanics upon completion of training for such work as the dismantling, decarbonizing and assembling, of engines, refacing brakes, and rebuilding batteries, will receive from 52s. to 65s. per week, whilst the garage assistants who do cleaning, lubricating and minor repairs, gets 50s. in London and 47s. in the provinces.
Women in both categories are also 'entitled to 7s. 6d. a week war bonus and overtime rates. The agreement operates from May 1.