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ALBERT HALL RALLY AND VEHICLE PARADE TO-DAY, at 7.30 p.m., there is to be 1 a rally at the Albert Hall, Kensington, sponsored by the British Housewives League. The speakers willhe Miss Dorothy Crisp (chairman) and Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, M.P. To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., there will be a demonstration and march to Hyde Park from Trafalgar Square, and at 3 p.m. a parade of some 100 commercial vehicles from Regent's Park to Hyde Park. The latter is being organized by the Road Haulage Association in connection with the fight against the nationalization of transport. LORDS START COMMITTEE STAGE NEXT WEEK KTEXT Monday the House of Lords
11 will resume consideration of the Transport Bill. The Committee stage will be opened with several proposed amendments by the Government.
One will refer to the powers of the British Transport Commission to manufacture vehicles. The amendment will tie the Commission down to the construction of vehicles only for its own. purposes, although a contract for sale entered into before the Commission acquired an undertaking (presumably referring to the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.) could be completed.
Another Government amendment will alter the basis of compensation for trailers (as distinct from semi-trailers). An annual deduction of one-seventh of the cost, instead of one-fifth, will be made.
LILA. STILL GROWING
f AST year, membership of the Devon 1--.0 and Cornwall Area of the Road Haulage Association increased from 491 to 629, said Mr. W. F. P. Bishop, area secretary, in his annual report. Some 10,000 signatures had been obtained, in the area, to petitions against the nationalization of transport.
Mr. J. R. F. Bradford is area chairman.