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In Parliament
ROAD-GRANT PROPOSALS: SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS.
AEMBERS of the Parliamentary ai Road Group and others have submitted numerous amendments to the Finance Bill. In the main these are designed to ensure that a substantial proportion of the money paid in taxation shall be secured for constructing or improving roads, and that road users shall be consulted more often. Sir Reginald Clarry, Colonel Sandeman Allen, and others have an amendment proposing that the Minister of Transport should consult representative organizations of highway authorities, road users, and transport workers before he determines the sums that may be required for grants for road-improvement schemes.
Another amendment suggests that the Minister should present to Parliament, in each year, an estimate of the moneys to be paid into the Road Fund, and should submit therewith a statement of the details of the proposed expenditure out of the Fund.
Miss Lloyd George and other Liberals will propose that he shall call a survey to be made, and reviewed annually, of the roads classified for the maintenance grants, and of proposals for the construction of new roads and road improvements, and that he shall, in making such survey, call into consultation
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TENDERS OF INTEREST TO HAULIERS.
MENDERS are invited by the following (latest dates given in parentheses):— Rowley Regis B.C. for (1) granite, etc., (2) taxmacadam, etc., (3) tar, etc., (4) bricks, etc.. (7) cement, sand, lime, (13) coal, coke, etc. Apply, stating item i
s for which it s desired to tender, to Mr. Clifford Buckley. Council House, Old Hill, Staffs. (June 15.)
Trowbridge for approximately 680 tons of 1-in. clean limestone clippings, and 75 tons of 2-in, toclean broken limestone. Apply to surveyor, Town Hail, Trowbridge. (June 17.) Epson, and Ewell U.D.C. for tarred granite or tarred black rock macadam, tarred limestone footpath bottoming and topping, Thames ballast, uncrushed screened shingle, rapid hardening cement, large coke and steam coal for road roller. Apply to Mr. Norman Auty, Town Hall, Epsom. (June 15.) Chat-Sham (Kent County Mental Hospital) fox coal and coke for 12 months. Apply to clerk and steward, Kent County Mental Hospital, Claitham Down. near Canterbury. (June 17.)
Inverness C.C. for coal. Apply to Mr. .T. Mackenzie, 4, Cameron Square, Fort William. (June 19.1
North Riding E.C. for coal and coke. Apply to secretary, 'Education Offices, County Hall. Northallerton. (June 20.) Southborough IT.D.C. for 250 tons of Nottingham hard steam coal delivered to Upper Hay...mien, near Tonbridge, and 40 tone of house coal delivered to Southborough. during 12 months. Apply to Mr. W. N. Wood, Council Offices, SouLlbormigh. (June 16.) Wiltshire E.C. for coal and coke to schools for one year. Apply to Mr. K. Struckmeyer, county education offices, Stallard Street, Trowbridge. .(June 15.) Workington r.C. for 10,500 tons of gas coal (screened coal or washed nuts) for delivery over 12 months.. Apply., to gas engineer, Gasworke, 'Workington. (June 2.5.) representatives of bodies of highway authorities and of users of road vehicles.
LICENCE REFUNDS DURING VEHICLE REPAIRS.
ANOTHER new clause to the Finance Bill, proposed by members of the Road Group, lays down that, for the purpose of facilitating the repairs of any mechanically propelled vehicle, the holder of the excise licence may deposit it with the licensing authority for not less than a month. On the understanding that the vehicle shall not be used in that period, the authority shall credit the holder with one-twelfth part of the annual rate of duty payable in respect of the vehicle for every complete month of the remainder of the period during which the licence is in force and remains deposited.
LEVEL CROSSINGS, DRIVING TESTS AND EXCESSIVE SPEED.
AMONG the numerous questions tc be addressed to the Minister of Transport in the House of Commons are: How many level crossings have been abolished in the past 12 months, how much have they cost, what are the numbers of men and women who have been examined for the driving test and how many have failed?
In view of the number of complaints received that, on certain unrestricted Toads on the outskirts of .cities, drivers are travelling too fast, a North London member wants to know if the 7vlinister can state which roads in the viciiii)tr North London are the subject of ,aikal complaints.