:Ministry Favours 1934 Act Amendment
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AMEMORANDUM on contractcarriage work issued on Wednesday by the Ministry of Transport analyses various possible solutions of the problem and comes out in favour of a plan to return to what was originally intended in the Road Traffic Act, 1934.
Under this scheme, the conditions contained in Section 25 of that Act would stand by themselves without any reference to "special occasion." The conditions might be amended by some relaxation of the ban on advertisement to allow publication in certain periodicals or on a club or institution notice board which was open to public view. A condition might also be imposed prohibiting the frequent conveyance to the same destination of parties originating from the same establishment, institution or community.
The criterion of" special occasion" would cease to apply and the sole tests would be those set out in Section 25, dealing with the formation of the party.
ODD 1 PER CENT. WOULD COST £60,000 A YEAR
MPHASIZING the need for picking up every would-be passenger, Mr. A. F. Neal, general manager of Manchester Transport Department, told drivers last week that if one out of every 100 were missed, £60,000 a year revenue would be lost.
He was speaking at the annual presentation of awards for safe driving, when 93 drivers qualified for 15 each. an award which is additional to that of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
Birchfields Road garage won the department's inter-garage safe-driving trophy for the second year in succession. This is presented annually to the garage where the drivers show the greatest relative improvement over the previous five years.
HOPES OF BALANCING BOOKS DASHED
HOPES that the £61,000 a year fare increases which they were recently awarded would balance Hull Transport Department's budget have been dashed by the extra 3s. a week they will now have to pay their employees. This latest pay award will cost the department £8,600 a year.
The cost of the rise at Leeds will be £25.000 a year; Nottingham, £18.000: Huddersfield, £8,000; Derby, £7,200; Luton, £2,500; Coventry, £12.000; Plymouth,-£9,000, and Birkenhead £9,000.
In Belfast, where there are some 2,400 drivers and conductors, the increase will cost approximately £27,000 a year.
At a dinner of Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., last week, the chairman, Mr. Raymond Birch, said the recent wage increases might mean a further increase in fares unless the fuel tax were reduced.