LORD HOWE APPEALS FOR FAIR PLAY.
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Earl Howe made public reference to the B.R.F.'s views on the road-rail question when he spoke to St. Marylebone Chamber of Commerce on Thursday of last week. Following a dissertation on the complicated and unjustified restrictions imposed on haulers by the 1933 Act, he asked members of the company whether they, as traders, would not consider it most unjust if they were compelled to apply to an authority for permission to enlarge their businesses.
He said the B.R.F. attached the 820 greatest importance to the amplification of the gentleman's agreement, regarding railway abstention from licence objection. He said " We realize that legislation is required to give effect to the agreement, but, so far as road transport is concerned, everything will depend on the way and the spirit in which the gentleman's agreement is honoured, now and in future."
Lord Howe made particular reference to the railway objections in the scandalous North Shields case. Hostile action and the briefing of eminent counsel were likely, he stated, to impair the value of the agreement.