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R.H.E. has been feeble at the head kind suspiciously independent in some divisions:' Cases submitted by one area of the R.H.A. lying in two divisions of the R.H.E., have suffered widely different treatment. in some instances, hauliers have had to apply for acquiaition.
Of 102 summarized cases submitted to the R.H.E. head office for reconsideration, 11 applicants have received ordinary permits (presumably pending reconsideration), 5 are being acquired (some certainly through coercion), 13 have received no reply, 62 have been refused, and only 11 applications have been granted, Mr. Mitchell declares.
These results had to be obtained direct from the divisional offices of the R.H.E. by the R.H.A. area secretaries, although all had 'been put up to the hsad office of the R.H.E. from the R.H.A. head office.
" Such procedure is both discourteous and demonstrative of the completely passive part played by the R.H.E. head otike," Mr. Mitchell says. "In other words, the lead to the divisional officers of the R.H.E. has been no lead at all. they have been either too strong or too independent to be guided by Marylebone Road . .
" When one hears of a divisional permits officer stating that only by going to him will a haulier get any concession 'and that an approach through the R.H.A. will result in no concession, one is inclined to feel that well-meaning gentlemen at the top of the R.H.E. have no grip on their over-zealous and overambitious junior officials.
"In another division, although ordinary permits were to be granted. pending reconsideration, the hauliers are met with the reply that, since ordinary permits have been issued (and they can be withdrawn at any time), no original permit can he issued. Again, when a request for total or partial acquisitiOn has been lodged (merely to keep open the question of reconsideration), the haulier concerned has had his business acquired .
The R.H.E. is asked to continue to reconsider applications for original permits. "Failure to treat these cases reasonably will leave it open to fully justified criticism, not only of its policy, but of its inability to exercise proper administrative control over the organization with which it is entrusted," Mr. Mitchell declares.