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In Parliament
By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent
WHEN UNLADEN WEIGHT INCLUDES CONTAINER.
THE clause in the Finance Bill carry
ing out the Budget proposal to amend the Finance Act, 1920, regarding unladen weight of goods vehicles with containers is in the following terms :— " For the purpose of paragraph 5 Of the Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1920, the unladen weight of a goods vehicle shall be taken to include the weight of any receptacle, placed on or in the vehicle for the purpose of the carriage of goods or burden of any description, if any goods or burden are loaded into, carried in, and unloaded from the receptacle, without the receptacle being removed from the vehicle. This section shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1938."
SECOND READING OF ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.
HE Road Traffic Bill, which deals I mainly with the joint payment of fares by taxicab passengers, has been
read a second time in the House of Lords without discussion, the Committee stage being put down for June 10.
INVISIBLE-RAY TRAFFIC CONTROL EXPERIMENT.
AN inquiry was addressed to the Minister of Transport by Colonel Goodman concerning the operation of the invisible ray apparatus for controlling traffic at the junction of Queen's Drive and Muirhead Avenue, Liverpool. He asked whether the degree of success obtained would justify the adoption of the system elsewhere. Mr. HoseBelisha replied that as it had been in operation for only three weeks, he would prefer to await a more extended period of trial, before reaching a conclusion as to its effectiveness.
UNDERGROUND GARAGES FOR NEW LONDON BUILDINGS.
AITER a reference to the repeated insistence of the L.C.C. and the City of London Corporation upon the
provision of underground garages for new buildings, being erected in central London, Mr. Crowther asked the Minister of Health whether he had issued any recommendations in regard to the matter.
Sir Kingsley Wood said he had no information in regard to the action of the L.C.C. and the City Corporation, but he would communicate with them on the matter. Whilst it was not for him toissue recommendations, he concurred in the advice which had from time to time been given by the Minister of Transport.
WAGES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.
THE report of the committee on the regulation of wages and conditions of service in the road-transport industries is at present, states the Minister of Labour, under consideration.
• STATUS OF TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS.
THE Chairmen of Traffic Commis.' sioners, etc. (Tenure of Office) Bill was passed through Committee in the House of Commons on Tuesday without amendment and ordered for third reading.