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N.E. Scheme Attack in Sunderland

22nd April 1949, Page 5
22nd April 1949
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Page 5, 22nd April 1949 — N.E. Scheme Attack in Sunderland
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Keywords : Cattle, Calf, Thistlethwaite

A T a meeting last week of Sundert land's Socialist-controlled Town Council the general manager and engineer of the transport undertaking was authorized to furnish such technical and departmental information as the working party of the Road Transport Executive might require in the preparation of the scheme for the co-ordination of mud passenger transport services in the north-east.

Aid. W. S. Martin (Progressive) asked whether in view of the fact that the Council seemed to be the only one which was falling in line with the scheme it was proposed to go to any great expense in providing the information. " If all the other towns in the area are endeavouring to keep out of the scheme, has the Transport Committee given any reconsideration to the matter and will they fall into line with other towns in an endeavour to keep our own transport ?" he asked.

"if we are to. be the only large public operating concern in the area to go forward with the scheme, it looks to me as though we are going to give away our transport along with other assets," he added.

Ald. Martin's question went unanswered and the Mayor (Aid. Eden Johnston) commented: "I think it is true to say that other authorities are falling in with the scheme."

FALSE STATEMENTS: TWO MEN GO TO PRISON

FOR combining to make false state' ments for the purpose of obtaining a B licence, two Sheffield men were sentenced at Sheffield Quarter Sessions to one month's imprisonment. They also received a concurrent sentence of one month for a similar offence with the object of obtaining the variation of a carrier's licence. The defendants were Andrew Thistlethwaite, of Wordsworth Avenue, and John Bacon, of Bamforth Street.

It was stated that Thistlethwaite had a lorry, but had been unable to secure a B licence for it. Bacon, who had been in business before the war, was able to do so, so the two men " got together" and made statements on an application form. CATTLE TRANSPORT

THE Minister of Agriculture, Mr. T.

Williams, in the House of Commons, last week, promised to look into the possibility of arranging that horned and dehorned or hornless cattle were not transported from farm to slaughterhouse in the same vehicle.

it would not be practicable, he added, to make feeding" of young calves in transit a statutory obligation, but he would consult with the Minister of Food as to whether it would be possible to place some limitation on the distance calves were sent from collecting centres to slaughterhouses.


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