Fixing Rates for Yorkshire Removals
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UTACHINERY for the stabilization of allocal furniture-removal rates in various Yorkshire towns is now being. put into operation under the auspices of the Yorkshire Furniture Removers' Association. With headquarters in Leeds, this organization was formed a little more than a year ago. Agreed rates schedules are already in operation at Wakefield and Hudders
field. The local committees which have drawn up the scales for Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Dewsbury (the Dewsbury area includes Batley and the Spen Valley) have decided that they shall operate as from January 1. In his first annual report, Mr. H. Sagar Jackson, secretary of the Association, expresses regret that success has not attended efforts to establish similar committees in other Yorkshire districts, where, he adds, "furniture removers do not seem to realize the immediate importance of dealing with the problem of rates stabilization, nor the imminent danger -caused by their failure to do so."
Part of the Association's policy is to combat the influence of B-licence operators held to be not established furniture-removal contractors and to be carrying out removals at uneconomic rates. In this connection, Mr. Jackson states that objections lodged and pursued against B-licence applications totalled 117 during the year, and, as a result, an aggregate reduction of 3,172 miles in the radii granted to Blicence operators for furniture removals • was obtained. In 31 of these cases permission to undertake furniture removals was refused by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, and 11 other licences were much restricted, so far as furniture removals are concerned.
Mr. L. R. Turnbull, M.Inst.T (Leeds), has been re-elected chairman. Mr. S. Wainwright (Huddersfield) and Mr. H. Sager Jackson (Leeds) have been re-elected as vice-president and secretary respectively, and Mr, T. G. Richardson (Leeds) has been appointed an additional vice-president. The following have been appointed to the committee:— Messrs. T. Pickersgill (Bradford), C. Cole (Leeds), B. Butcher (Leeds), G. E. Gilbey (Wakefield), L. W. Morton (Leeds), T. Masters (Barnsley), H. Crossley (Leeds), F.. Short (Halifax) and D. Bullock (Featherstone).