'TRANSPORT THEFTS ARE ATTACKS ON CIVILIZATION
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SENTENCING three men to two L./months' imprisonment for the theft of tyres from the L.M.S. Railway Co., the Bradford Stipendiary Magistrate, Dr, F. J. 0. Coddington, remarked last week that one of the disturbing factors in this war was the way in which honesty was breaking, down, particularly in regard to thefts from railways and other forms of transport. Men were not entitled to rely upon a previously excellent character to save them from severe punishment, when they had committed a dangerous attack upon the organization of civilization. NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS GIVEN, BUT REGISTRATIONS WITHHELD REPLYING to Mr. B. Riley, who wished to relate the numbers of road accidents, and vehicles licensed, Mr. Noel-Baker, in the House of Commons last week, said that it had not been the practice, since the war began' to publish the numbers of
• -% vehicles which were licensed. The number of persons killed in road accidents in October, 1941, was 857, and 17,650 were injured. The figures for October,. 1942, were 697 killed and 13,218 injured.
CONVERSION OF LONDON TRANSPORT STOCK
I T is announced by the London Passenger Transport Board that out of £12,583,000 London Transport 4i per cent. " stock, the holders of about £9,600,000 of stock, or 76 per cent. of the total, have elected to exchange into the new London Transport 3 per cent, guaranteed stock 1967/72; on the terms of the recent offer.
The Tbalance of the authorized issue of £12,905,641 London Transport 3 per cent, guaranteed stock will be issued for cash, in accordance with the arrangements already made, and the unconverted London Transport 41 per cent. " T.F.A." stock will be repaid in cash on January 1, 1943.