Commissioners Serve Too Short a Time
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I T was a bad thing that representatives of local authorities should be elected to serve on the panels of Traffic Commissioners for only a limited period, said Mr. Jack Evans at a meeting of the Leeds and District Graduate and Student Society of the Yorkshire Section of the Institute of Transport, last week. Mr. Evans, an expert on licensing matters, said that at the end of their threeyear period such representatives had
served their " apprenticeship." He thought that the period should be doubled.
Comparing the passenger and goods appeal systems, he said that he preferred the goods as it seemed to have been modelled on the procedure of the Court of Appeal.
WORKERS MUST HAVE BUSES IT was no use changing working hours if buses were not available to serve employees. If notice of new working arrangements were given, bus operators would he able to revise their services. These points have been made by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon. chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, to the Northern Regional Board for Industry.
The board have since advised industrial concerns to inform bus operators of proposed changes in working hours.
REDEPLOYMENT DELAY?
THE introduction of shift-work for cotton workers in Lancashire, which is part of the industry's redeployment plan. may be delayed unless bus schedules are adjusted. In some districts where mills have started shifts, objections have been raised by employees who
cannot catch buses after 10.30 p.m. •