Jack Report Pressure
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From our Political Correspondent
I OCAL authority associations, Women's 11—.1 Institutes and M.P.s from rural constituencies are combining to put pressure on the Minister of Transport to publish the Jack Report on rural' transport well before Budget day, which is expected to be April 11.
The M.P.s, in particular, are anxious to get the report in their hands before the Budget comes along because they want to formulate amendments to the Finance Bill which they believe the report will recommend to help in the provision of transport in areas where branch railway lines are being, or have been, closed. The Chancellor may, of course, forestall them by making the changes that they want in his Budget proposals.
Whether the Jack Committee recommend it or not, M.P.s will be pressing once again for some easement in fuel tax for companies operating uneconomic services to fulfil a social need.
NEW BEN OFFICERS
AT the annual general meeting of the London and Home Counties Centre of BEN, Mr. J. V. Collins was elected chairman with Mr. R. G. Emmett as vice-president for the year 1961. Other elections were Miss G. M. Horner, secretary, Mr. A. G. Petrie, treasurer, and Mr. F. 0. W. Smith, hon. auditor.