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National Ports Council to be Set Up

8th March 1963, Page 13
8th March 1963
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ANATIONAL Ports Council is to be set up to work out and put into operation an overall plan for the .conntry's docks.

Announcing this in the Commons this week, Vice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett, " Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said that Lord Rochdale— who headed the Committee that produced the report on the docks—would be the first chairman of an advisory panel which would form the nucleus of the future council.

The Government accepted that there was a need to concentrate development and for a higher level of investment and • for better access to ports, said the Admiral. He pointed out that implementation of the national plan would be achieved through control by the Govern' ment of capital investment • Among the council's functions, he went on, would be the preparation of plans for the grouping of ports wherever it appeared that this would make for greater efficiency.

If port development was to go forward as part of a national plan it seemed right that a port should be treated for the purpose of financing its approved investment broadly on the same basis as a local or other public authority:

Noise Limits Soon

DEGULATIONS are now being prepared, laying down noise levels which it will be unlawful for motor vehicles to exceed.

This was stated in the Commons by Mr, John Hay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, when he was asked what new action he would take to protect the public against the noise and danger caused by heavy goods vehicles, including the danger from diesel fumes.

He did not accept the implication that heavy goods vehicles as a class were dangerous. Their accident record was better than that of any other class of vehicle, he said.

Mr. Francis Noel-Baker (Lab. Swindon) who raised the matter, complained that the application of measures against the emission of dangerous fumes was very ineffective and that increasingly large numbers of heavy goods whicles were emitting fumes dangerous to visibility and health, Mr. Hay recalled the nation-wide smoke checks carried out last year and said the Ministry was trying to bring the problem to the attention of the operators of heavy commercial vehicles

Rural Transport N4R. JOHN HAY was accused in the INA Commons this week of more delaying tactics over rural transport.

After he had answered questions about teams engaged on analysing rural transport problems, Mr. Hay was told by Mr. Ernest Popplewell (Lab., Newcastle West) that he had had the Jack Report, while the report on traffic in the next 20 years had been published that day. The facts were pretty well known, said Mr. Popplewell, and he asked whether Mr. Hay was not just making another excuse for taking absolutely no action at all.

Denying this, Mr. Hay said the information being gathered by the teams was needed to see what was the right policy to adopt for rural transport as a whole.


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