Traffic Signs in London.
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Now regulations regarding traffic notices have just been issued by the Minister of Transport, these being designed to restrict to a" minimum the number and type of traffic signs erected in the London traffic area. 'Under these regulations the Minister may, if satisfied upon a police report.that any traffic notice is undesirable, serve a written • notice upon the person responsible for, its erection, or the owner or occupier of the land upon which it is erected, requiring the sign to be removed within a specified time.
Buses Compete with Taxicabs.
The Netherlands East Indies State Railway authorities recently inaugurated a motorbus service between Tandjong Prick Railway Station, Batavia, and the outer and inner harbour piers. The service has been instituted to compete against local taxicab companies and to give better service to and from the landing piers. Four Berliet buses with locally built bodies are in operation, each being designed to carry six first-class and twenty second-class passengers.
Co-ordinating London's Passenger Services.
The Automobile Association tells us that it is carefully studying the proposed extension of the present London traffic combine to include under one management all the passenger services of the Metropolis, including the railway, omnibus and tramways system.
Across Australia by Bean Lorry.
Mr. Francis Dirties, who holds the distinction of having crossed the Australian continent twice in a Bean light lorry, has arrived in London, where he has been discussing with Sir Robert Hadfield, whose company now controls the manufacture of Dean vehicles, the possibility of undertaking further record-making journeys. The test journey in the Bean 25-cwt. lorry was made from Melbourne to Darwin and back, and we understand that 8,000 miles were covered without any trouble being experienced.
Water for Steam Wagons.
The parliamentary coranditte of the Lanes County Council reports that a petition was presented against the
Manchester Corporation Dill in the first House, negotiations with the corporation not being completed. The cortioration, however, made certain amendments before the Bill came before the committee, in regard to the power to fix and maintain in or under any street within its water limits tanks or other receptacles for water for use on mechanically propelled vehicles, the effect being that the consent of the road authority must be obtained in every case where the power is to be exercised outside the city. Certain of the petitions were then withdrawn.
Still Fewer Horses.
The agricultural returns just issued by the Ministry of Agriculture indicate a further reduction in the number of horses on the farms of this country on June 4th last. The number was 1,077,200, as against 1,128,800 last year, A decrease of 51,600, or 4.6 per
cent. The greater reduction of breeding is with light horses, the rate of decline in the breeding of heavy horses having been arrested to some extent, there being only 100 foals less than last ),.ear. In the North of England and Cornwall and Devon there is an increase in this class of foe!. The total number of horses used for agricultural purposes is reduced in practically every county, the number being 746,200 as against 760,600 last year, or a decrease of 14,400. This is due very largely to the greater use of the motor in various forms of agriculture.