Ribble Want 121% on Workers' Fares
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FOLLOWING an increase of £120,000 I a year in the cost of wages, Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., have applied for permission to advance the price of workers' fares and contract tickets. The proposals are expected to produce an extra £55,000 a year.
Cornmenting on the application, Mr. H. Bottomley, -general manager of Ribble, said: "Basically, the effect of the application will be to increase workpeople's fares and the rates for contract tickets by 121 per cent. In some cases, where there are local variations from the standard rates for workpeople's tickets, 'the application provides for them to be brought into line with the standard."
Mr. Bottomley added that there were indications of further demands for higher wages. "If these are made, it is inevitable that in the absence of substantial relief from the heavy and discriminatory tax on fuel, we shall be compelled to pass on the cost to our patrons."
NO UNREASONABLE USE OF HIGHWAY CLAIMED
nEFENDING Albert Henry Foster, .1-1 Ashburton, Hull Road, Hornsea, before Hull magistrates last week, Mr. R. E. Paterson stated that his client had not been using the highway unreasonably when he parked his van in Queen Street, Hull.
Earlier proceedings were reportedin the October 29 issue of The Commercial Motor. The case had been adjourned to enable the police to make further inquiries.
Inspector G. W. Maltby said that there were 12 authorized stands and the police tried to give carriers every facility. Foster had been reasonable and the only reason that the case had been brought was that the vehicle had been left for about 45 minutes.
Mr. Paterson said that there was a scarcity of parking space and the position had been aggravated by an increase in clearing-house business. Foster's warehouse was in the centre of much activity and often he could not gain access to it.
The stipendiary magistrate said that in his view a case of obstruction had been established. Foster was fined 10s.
LONDON TRANSPORT INQUIRY
THE committee of inquiry into London Transport hope to submit their report to the Minister of Transport towards the end of the year. The Ministry has congratulated the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee on their evidence.
HIGHWAY CODE APPROVED TEN MILLION copies of the High1 way Code will be distributed -initially, the Minister of Transport, Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, said in the House of Commons, on Monday, when the revised Code was approved.