Opposition to Passenger Insurance Bill
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From our Parliamentary Correspondent
THE House of Commons was last week presented with a petition calling for the rejection of the Motor Vehicles (Passenger Insurance) Bill—and it looks as if the House will comply with that request.
The measure was to have been discussed last Friday, but the Commons was "counted out " before it was reached, and only one more day—June 23—remains for Private Members' Bills to be discussed. It will then come well down the list, and in view of the growing opposition which the Bill is arousing, is unlikely to receive M.P.s' approval.
Although the Government has helped Mr. John Cronin (Labour, Loughborough) to draft his Bill, Conservatives are far from happy about it. Their views Were well expressed in the petition which Mr. Wade brought to the House on Friday. This said that the Bill .would directly interfere with the individual freedom of the subject, and owners of vehicles affected would have to insure persons unnamed for an unlimited amount of compensation.
_ The cost of such insurance would be an onerous burden. particularly on owners of two-wheeled vehicles, and would cause hardship to those who could not afford expensive means of transport.
WINDING-UP
A N order for the comoulsory windingup of Humberdale Transport. Ltd., haulage contractors. of Lime Street. Hull, was made by Mr. Justice Plowman in the High Court on Monday on the petition of Chas. Oswald and Sons, judgment creditors.