Rates Plan a• Boon to Yorks Removers
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D =FITS which have accrued from
the stabilization of rates for furniture removals in the city of Leeds, under a scheme initiated by the Yorkshire Furniture Removers Association, were referred to by Mr. L. R. Turnbull, president, in a speech to Bradford removers, last week. Mr. T. E. Piekersgill presided.
Mr. Turnbull emphasized that the Leeds removers had made their rates schedule for removals in Leeds as simple as possible, in view of the fact that they were imposing rates not only on the trade, but on the public. Particulars as to the rates, which were on an hourly basis, along with the names of the 29 Leeds removal contractors who had agreed to observe them, were exhibited for public inspection at the offices of all the 29 firms, Since the schedule came into operation, every
one of these 29 removers had benefited , by it to the extent of 10 times his annual subscription to the Association.
The question of fixing rates on a mileage basis from Leeds to other places was receiving serious consideration, he added, but he did not regard rates stabilization for non-local work as of primary importance. In view of the good progress which had been made in the stabilization of local rates for Leeds, it was possible that, before long, rates schedules for journeys, say, five miles beyond the Leeds city boundary would be established.
Mr. IL Sagar Jackson, the association's secretary and solicitor, referred to the opposition which had been put forward to various B-licence applications in Yorkshire, so far as they concerned furniture reel:loving, . and to reductions in the radii granted.