Hartlepool Dispute for High Court
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WEST HARTLEPOOL is to refer to VV the High Court its dispute with Hartlepool Corporation over the latter's plan to run its own bus service between the two towns. Hartlepool Corporation have obtained four double-deck buses which are to be operated by United Automobile Services, Ltd., Darlington, acting as the council's agents.
West Hartlepool Corporation announced some time ago that they would contest any attempt by Hartlepool Corporation to bring in an" outside operator." West Hartlepool will also question the decision of the Northern Licensing Authority in granting a licence to Hartlepool to operate a bus service when the corporation were not already bus operators.
Mr. E. J. Waggott, town clerk of West Hartlepool, alleged in a statement that: " It is quite clear that Hartlepool Council's interest in the route is mainly financial, and tat the service to be rendered to the public is secondary in their minds to the money that can be secured for the general body of their ratepayers."
Hartlepool Corporation intend to start their service on August 1 in time for the town's carnival week. .
The House of Commons, last week, approved the Hartlepool Corporation Act, 1925, Modification Order, 1953, which removes the prohibition under which Hartlepool Corporation could not operate buses on part of Cleveland Road, Hartlepool. This enables the corporation to run their own buses.
ECHO OF 1926 DEPRESSION
UAMILY links between miners in the I East Midlands and the north-east coalfields were stressed before the East Midland Licensing Authority, at Nottingham, last Friday, when Hall Bros., Ltd., South Shields, were granted a hacking for an extended service between the two areas. They applied to pick up and set down passengers at Worksop, Mansfield, Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester and Hinckley. The Railway Executive objected.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardiaw, for the applicants, said that during the 1926 depression many miners had gone from the north-east to the Midlands, Family links had been firmly established and a daily service between the two areas
was necessary. An official of the Durham Miners' Association supported the application.
The railways have appealed against the grant of the primary licence in the Northern Area.
LORDS' AMENDMENT APPROVED
ON Monday, the House of Commons approved the amendment to the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill made by the House of Lords, which enables education authorities to carry fare-paying scholars on buses provided primarily for the free transport of schoolchildren. As reported in The Commercial Motor on July 3, road service licences will not be necessary, but the written consent of the Licensing Authority must be obtained.
3s. MORE FOR " C " DRIVERS?
TRADE UNIONS are asking that the 1 increase of 3s. a week for haulage workers, which is provided for by R.H. (45) and is yet to be confirmed by the Minister of Labour, should be extended to transport workers of the Co-opera
tive Wholesale Society and of the distri• butive coal trade.
Male transport workers in the retail food trades will receive an increase of 6s a week if the recommendation of the Wages Council is accepted.
Higher wages and improved conditions for transport workers in the cement industry came into force on June 22.