BEET REPORT PROTEST.
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A conference of the National Farmers Union was held in London, last Friday, to consider the findings of the Greene Committee on the sugar-beet industry. Recognizing the effect of the report on the road-transport industry, the N.F.U. invited the Commercial Motor Users Association to be represented, and Capt. A. H. Amor, of York, put forward the views of the transport industry on behalf of that Association, Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from April 19-27 inelusive :—Docks: King George V, 12; Royal Albert, 8; Royal Victoria, 5; Surrey Commercial, 5; West India, 2; East India, 1; South-West India, 2; Tilbury, 5; Tilbury Stage, 1; Millwall, 5 ; London, I. WHAnvEs ; Hays, 5; Middleton's, 1; Tilbury Jetty, 2; Regent's Canal, 1.
Y.S.C.O.A. Campaign to Continue.
The continuance of the Yorkshire Stage Carriage Operators Association's campaign against the report of the 3.Cationa1 Joint Conciliation Board was endorsed at the annual meeting of the Association in Leeds last week.
Mr. J. Keeling, who is a.mernber of the Yorkshire Area Conciliation Board, referred to the forthcoming meeting of the Yorkshire Board, called following the National Board's meeting, at which the Yorkshire dispute was considered, and declared that the Y.S.C.O.A. would not tolerate the National Board's report.
A Municipal Conference in Lucerne.
The annual conference of the Union of Swiss Road Experts will be held in Lucerne on May 24-26, 1935. It will be attended by officials dealing with road construction, contracting, civil engineering, and inspectors of local cleansing and transport. Various papers. on these activities will be read and discussed, and machinery and
equipment for modern road construelion, street cleansing arid refuse collection will be exhibited and demonstrated. The chief of the organizing committee is Mr. 0. Enzmann, Chief Engineer of the Canton of Lucerne.
I.A.E. Australian Centre Formed.
An Australian centre of the Institution of Automobile Engineers has recently been formed in Sydney, and arrangements have been made for hold
Mr. A. U. M. Hudson, M.P., recently appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
ing monthly meetings from May to October. The chairman is Mr. T. A.
Borthwick, and the honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr. W. B. Burnet, M.I.A.E. This is the second overseas centre of the Institution, the first—in New Ze,aland—having been established some years ago.
• In Charge of Subsidized Transport.
The official title of the officer controlling subsidized transport is now Chief Inspector of Supplementary Transport, Regent's Park Barracks, Albany Street, London, N.W.1, in lieu of the former title of Chief Inspector of Subsidized Tra nsport.
PERSONAL PARS.
Mr. McCarthy, the manager of Leyland Motors' branch in Australia, recently left on a visit to the company's factory in this country. He is expected to arrive at Leyland early next month.
Mr. C. E. H. Finch, who, some time ago, acted as the representative for Leyland Motors, Ltd., in Greece, .has, after some months spent in the company's South-of-England works, been appointed as the Leyland representative for Palestine.
We publish on this page a portrait of Mr. A. U. M. Hudson, M.P., who has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. He is a Government whip and has been Lord Commissioner of the Treasury since 1931. Mr. Hudson has been a Member of Parliament for Hackney North since 1924.
Mr. A. J. Hancock has been elected president of the Institution of Automobile Engineers for the 1935-36 session, the vice-presidents being Capt. J. S. Irving, Mr. P. C. Kidner, MajorGen. S. .C. Peck and Mr. F. G. Wooliard. Mr. Hancock is managing director of Hartwells, Ltd., the well-known Oxford concern of Morris distributors, but he will be well remembered as works manager, for a number of years, of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., at Luton.
Drivers Who Receive No Wages.
Evidence was given recently at Hanley that numerous drivers• in that area were content to work without wages and to have their cards stamped to enable them to obtain unemployment benefit.
This and other allegations as to wages and working conditions of drivers in the Potteries were made by representatives of employers and employed to Dr. W. Dawson Sadler, the Deputy Licensing Authority.
Dr. Sadler said that both he and the Licensing Authority (Colonel A. S. Redman) proposed to do all in their power to eliminate tho bad employer.
Leniency in Overloading Cases.
Mr. G. B. Cole, chief inspector of the weights and measures department of Manchester Corporation, in his annual report, states that under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, it has so far been the practice to weigh only such vehicles as appear to be over the permitted weight. The total number weighed was 249. of which 71 proved to be so seriously overloaded as to call for legal proceedings.
"Up to the present," states Mr. Cole, "only cautions have been given where the overloading did not exceed one ton, but such leniency cannot be shown indefinitely. There is no doubt that if more time could be given to this work, a greater number of offenders would be detected, but there is evidence that the action already taken has had a deterrent effect."