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The carnival-dance arranged by the Leicester Sub-area of the C.M.U.A. at Leicester last week, attracted some 350 people. . This function, which was in aidof the Leicester Royal Infirmary, was the first of its kind, but so successful was it that, in all probability, it will become an annual affair.
A.R.O. POTTERIES DINNER..
The West Midland, Pofteries Subarea. of the A.R.O., will hold its fifth annual dinner on Saturday, March 5. The venue is the Grand Hotel, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, and the starting time 6.30. p.m. Tickets cost es. each and are obtainable from the sub-area office, Phoenix Chambers, Broad Street, Hanky.
NATIONAL ROADS POLICY NEEDED.
The need for roads built for motor traffic only, was stressed by Mr. T. Worsley, secretary of the Scottish Federation of Road Transport Contractors, when he addressed a meeting at Aberdeen Rotary Club. last week. The most outstanding reason for better highways, Mr. Worsley said, was public safety. If any scourge or disease had attacked the community with such disastrous results as road accidents had brought about, the whole resources of medical and surgical science would have been applied to eliminate it.
It was ridiculous to assume that the types of road they had known for the past 80 -years were suitable to meet the requirements of motor vehicles. "There is need for a national poliey for the construction of roads, and roads devoted expressly to motor traffic," he declared.
NEW C.M.U.A. OFFICERS IN LEEDS.
At a meeting of the divisional committee of the North-Eastern Division of
the C.M.U.A., held in Leeds last week, Councillor Charles Holdsworth, of I. W. Holdsworth, Ltd., Halifax, was elected chairman in succession to Mr. James France.
Mr. J. L. Mathers, of Samuel Ledgards, of Armley, was elected as senior vice-chairman, and Mr. R. E. Cough, of Smith, Parkinson and Cole, Ltd., Bradford, as junior vice-chairman.
In returning -thanks for his election as chairman, Councillor Holdsworth said there seemed to be a prospect of the regulation of wages and conditions, and the stabilization of rates, being -.settled during the year. Even in Yorkshire, he said, where an employers' agreement on wages and conditions had been formulated, many operators were not observing it.
"I have always said," added Councillor Holdsworth, "that the most important things which we. as an industry, must determine, are, first of all what we pay out, 'and then what we draw in. All other things are attendant upon those two very ireportant factors."