M.P. Seeks Warning for Dangerous Loads
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FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
POLICE and fire authorities should be warned in advance when dangerous loads are to be carried by road, believes Mr. Stephen Swingler, Labour M.P. for Newcastle under Lyme. He is to ask the Minister of Transport in the Commons next Wednesday to take steps to ensure that this is done on all such proposed journeys, as is the case with wide loads.
On the same day, Mr. Desmond Donnelly (Lab., Pembroke) will ask for an inter-departmental inquiry into the advantages and costs of changing our rule of the road from left to right.
A barrage of queries on the Jack Report faces Mr. Marples on April 11— this time from the Conservative backbenches. Mr. Percy Browne (Torrington), Mr. Nicholas, Ridley (Cirencester and Tewkesbury) and Commander Sir John Maitland (Horncastle) all want to know what he has done and what further action he proposes about this important document.
As I have reported, the indications are that the Minister would prefer to say nothing much for the time being.
Also on April 11, Mr. Ellis Smith, Labour M.P. for South Stoke, will be voicing concern about road travelling facilities in the Manchester and Liverpool areas, and inter-city road and bus services in the North-West generally.
On April 4, Mr. James Boyden (Lab., Bishop Auckland) will be asking the Minister to direct the B.T.C. to publish their railway closure plans for the next three years, in view of the present piecemeal system "and the consequent difficulties created in planning industrial development."
For the Welsh men and women in Parliament, Mr. Donald Box (Con., North Cardiff) hopes to hold the stage next Friday (March 30) with a debate on his own resolution calling attention to the road and rail needs of the Principality.