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In Parliament
By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent
NO FRESH LEGISLATION INDICATED.
THE King's Speech and the opening proceedings of the first session of the new Parliament gave no indication that fresh legislation affecting road transport interests is contemplated. The Government will turn its attention to other branches of transport and will propose Bills embodying the financial plans for railway development and pro, viding for the development of civil air communications in this country and throughout the Empire.
It may, therefore, be anticipated that if any road transport legislation he presented later in the session it will be of a minor character. • 24,803 DRIVING-TEST FAILURES.
REPLYING to a question as to whether instructions had been given to examiners of driving ability, regarding the number of candidates to be passed and failed every week, filo
Minister of Transport denied having given such instructions. Candidates were passed purely on their merits. Up to Nov. 30, 166,855 persons had been examined, of whom 24,803 failed to satisfy the examiners.
ONLY ONE CROSSING-PEDESTRIAN PROSECUTION.
THE Under-Secretary at the Home Office, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, answering a question as to the number of prosecutions in the Metropolitan area for the improper use of pedestrian crossing-places, stated that the only offence of this description for which a pedestrian could be prosecuted was that of remaining longer on a crossing than
was necessary. He understood that proceedings for this offence had been taken in only one case. NO AMENDMENT OF HOURS AND WAGES REGULATIONS.
THE suggestion was made that holders of C licences should be brought into the same legal position as holders of A and B licences with regard to the payment of wages and the observance of standard conditions, but the Minister contented himself with pointing out that Parliament, so recently as 1933, reached a decision on this matter.
MR. BALDWIN ON ROAD SAFETY.
THE Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, on being asked by Mr. Napkin whether he would advise the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the causes of accidents on roads and to recommend ways and means of preventing such accidents, replied in the negative. He said that, so recently as 1929, the Royal Commission on Transport took comprehensive evidence on this subject, and devoted a section of its first report to suggestions, most of which were now embodied in exisiing law.
Since then, various committees had examined particular aspects of road safety, and the past year had been one of great activity in the institution of measures directed to reduce accidents.