Mr. Curtis to be Government Representative in Wales
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TO carry out the Government's policy that a senior Civil Servant should represent the Ministry of Transport generally in Wales, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, has appo:nted Mr. A. G. Curtis, 0.B.E.,
as Transport Commissioner for Wales and Monmouthshire. The appointment becomes effective on October 1.
Mr. Curtis is at present chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the East Midland Area. Those posts will be taken over by Mr. C. R. Hodgson, 0.B.E., who is at present chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the South Wales Area.
Apart from his special office, Mr. Curtis will undertake all the responsibilities and duties of a Regional Transport Commissioner. As well as representing the Ministry in Wales and Monmouthshire, he will report to the Ministry on Welsh public opinion on their activities and on transport questions. •
Apart from the TransPort Commissioner, South Wales will have a chairman of Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority, who is to be Mr. 1. Owen, M.B.E. He will also act as -Deputy
Transport Commissioner. .
Mr. Curtis has served in the Ministry for more than 28 years, mainly in Nottingham and Newcastleupon Tyne. For 10 years, however, he was at the Ministry's London headquarters. For the past five years he has presided in the East Midland Area.
Mr. Owen, who is a Welsh-speaking Welshman from North Wales, has spent the greater part of 34 years in the administration of the Road Traffic Acts. At first he was in the office of the North Western Traffic Commissioners at Manchester, but during the war he was in the North Wales office of the Deputy Regional Transport Commissioner for Wales. at Caernarvon. Since 1950 he has been clerk to the South Wales Commissioners at Cardiff.