"No Waiting : No Laxity
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WHEN a conviction against a VY Chaddesley Corbett farmer who had left his vehicle in a " no-waiting " area at Brornsgrove while he loaded it with goods, was quashed by Worcestershire Quarter Sessions Appeals Committee, last week, the chairman said that it had to be understood that no laxity in the interpretation of the " nowaiting " regulations was to be encouraged.
It was stated that the appellant had been unable to take his car, which was drawing a trailer, into a park because it exceeded the stipulated total length. and had left it for 30 minutes in a " nowaiting " section of Church Street. He went to a chemist's shop to obtain some mineral salts which he had ordered, but some delay was occasioned and he was unable to return to his car as quickly as he had intended.
The chairman observed that there did seem to have been a certain amount of unforeseen delay for which the appellant could not be blamed. It would not be right in the peculiar circumstances to hold that an offence had been committed.
• FREE TRAVEL: HULL TO CONSIDER AUTHORITY'S VIEW
C0 N SID ER ATION of a letter from the Yorkshire Licensing Authority regarding free travel was deferred by Hull Transport Committee at their meeting on Monday.
The Authority, who recently granted increases of fares, commented on concessions made to certain classes of passenger, and indicated that the relevant committees should bear the costs. He felt strongly about the expense of free travel having to he borne wholly by the transport undertaking.
Hull bus drivers and conductors regard time-recording clocks as "automatic spies," Mr. J. B. Berry, local trade group secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, told the meeting. He led a four-man deputation whose views on recording clocks on buses and point clocks on routes had been invited. A report from the general manager of the undertaking is to be obtained.
CHAIRMAN FOR 10th TIME
ON Monday Mr. C. E. Jordan was elected chairman of the West Midland Diirision of the Traders' Road Transport Association for the 10th year in succession. Mr. E. A. Betheley (Tarmac, Ltd.), Mr. J. H. Gutteridge (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.) and Mr. W. A. Standby (Chance Bros., Ltd.) were elected vice-chairmen.
FARES UP BA PER CENT.
TN the House of Commons on Tuesday I it was stated that the fares component of the interim index of retail prices showed a rise of 15.4 per cent. between January, 1952, and January, 1954.