B.T.C. Rates Up 5 per cent.
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AN increase of 5 per cent. in railway freight, dock and canal charges and road-haulage rates is to be made by -the British Transport Commission on December 1. The Minister of Transport said in the _House of Commons last week that this advance was estimated to produce £143m. in a full year, of which £21in. would go to the Road Haulage Executive. He added that it was very unlikely that the R.H.E. would. this year, make a profit.
The national rates committee of the Road Haulage Association is not meeting specially to consider this develop. ment and it may be assumed that thc Association will not recommend its members to raise their rates in line with the R.H.F.
APPEAL DATE FIXED
AN appeal by the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., 11 other coach operators and the railways against the grant of a licence and backing to Northern Roadways, Ltd., to run a service between Glasiow and Bournemouth will be heard at the Scottish Land Court, Edinburgh, on December 4-5. The hearing had been fixed for September 16, but was postponed.