N.A.F.W.R. and R.H.A. Liaise
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riA LIAISON committee is to be set up by the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers and the Road Haulage Association. It will deal with the subject of removals in general and the question of rates for the transport of new furniture in particular.
Nominations by the R.H.A. to the committee are as follows: -Messrs. C. Garnsworthy (Northern Area), R. A. Edwards (Yorkshire [Leeds] and Yorkshire [Hull] Areas), P. Perris (Northwestern [Western] Area), J. W. Chapman (East Midland), M. W. Fisher (West Midland), D. J. Delane (Metropolitan and South-eastern), G. R. Jenkins (South Wales), R. L. Dance (Western), W. J. Morris (Southern), G. S. Levitt (Eastern), A. H. Cooper (Devon and Cornwall) and H. Bell (Scotland).
HAULAGE WORKERS AVERAGE OVER 19 CCORDING to figures just pub
11 by the Ministry of Labour, the average earnings of road haulage workers, excluding employees of British Road Services, in the last pay week of April were £9 Is. 3d. Men of 21 years and over averaged £9 6s. The survey ; covered 19,408 workers, whose average hours of work were 52.9. Their hourly rate of pay was 3s. 5.1d,
A survey of the wages of 174,479 employees in tram and bus undertakings, excluding London Transport, gave a figure of £8 12s. Id., and for men of 21 and over, £8 18s. 4d. Bus and tram operatives averaged 49.1 hours of work in the week, at a rate of 3s. 6.1d. an hour..
These figures are contained in the Ministry of Labour Gazette for September (Stationery Office, Is. 6d.).
TO KEEP TROLLEYBUSES
BRIGHTON COUNCIL have rejected a recommendation of the transport committee that the town's transport undertaking should scrap its trolleybuses, Instead, a special sub-committee has been set up to try to negotiate a new agreement with other operators for an integrated transport system to cover the area.
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