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LEGAL-AID SCHEME FOR MIDLAND ASSOCIATION.
On Monday, the Midlands Area Coach and Transport Association, meeting in Leicester, decided to affiliate with the British Road Federation, to authorize the committee to consider affiliation with Leicester and County Chamber of Commerce, to approve a legal-aid scheme for memhers, with a panel of four solicitors, and to authorize the committee to adraft rules for the Association.
It was stated that a three months' trial of a legal-aid scheme had met with considerable success. Mr. H. Cleaver said that he had been trying for four years to get rules drafted.
S.T.R. at Wolverhampton.
S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, will lecture on costs and charges at Wolverhampton on May 6. The address will be given at the Molineux Hotel, at 7.48 p.m., under the auspices of A.R.O.
A.R.O. Exeter Committee Elected.
A new committee has been elected for A.R.O. Exeter sub-area and comprises the following:—Messrs. C. Burridge, P. Cullen, F. G. Ileale, G. Wellington, J. Cann, W. J. Tancock, M. N. Manson, W. Davey and I. G. Di fley Mr. N. J. Bennet, secretary of the Devon and Cornwall area, is to act as secretary of the sub-area for the time being.
A.R.O. Position Elucidated. •
Owing to the confused issue in the East Midland Area arising out of the breakdown of the association merger, Mr. H. W. Sewill, national director of A.R.O., reviewed the position in detail, and outlined the present state of A.R.O. to members at meetings at Derby and Northampton last week. He also explained the full policy of the Association. New committees were set up at both centres, as follow :--
Derby;—Messrs. J. H, Allan, D. Detham, G. M. Knilton, .5. R. Proctor and F, Crosby.
Northampten:—MeF.tre. Robinson. Mums. Garner, Challis, Valentine, Goody, Milner and
ne.
New A.R.O. West Midland Office.
Arrangements are complete for the opening of an A.R.O. office, from which the West Midland Area business will be conducted, at 17, Dudley Street, Wolverhampton, where Mr. G. F. Goodwin (area secretary) will be in charge. Mr. W. E. Aston, who was chairman of the area in R.H.A. days, has been elected chairrnan of the Birmingham sub-area, also of the area finance committee. The present area chairman is Mr. J. W. Beresford.
Representation of members in the traffic courts has been placed in the hands of a legal panel consisting of Mr. J. Foley Egginton (Birmingham), Mr. Paul W. T. Butters (Stafford) and Mr.
F. Griffiths (Kidsgrove). They will also take police-court cases for members.
Arrangements are in force for the provision of financial facilities, and details of the scheme can be obtained on application to Mr. Goodwin.
844 Minister to Define Braking Efficiency?
What standard of braking efficiency will be required by certifying officers, vehicle examiners and police officers, under the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1937? The C.M.U.A. national council has asked the Minister of Transport to angwer this question in the near future.
The Regulations (summarized in this issue) include provisions covering the, testing and examination of brakes.
Bouquet to Col. Jerrett.
At the annual general meeting of the C.M.U.A., a resolution was passed to place on record the members' warmest appreciation of the services rendered to the Association in particular and the road-transport industry in general, by Col. A. Jerrett, M.Inst.T., during his term as president. .
A.R.O. Urges By-pass for Canterbury.
Reports on the need for a by-pass road for Canterbury have been sub-. mated to the city watch committee by the Canterbury sub-area of A.R.O., the R.A.C. and the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd. Following a study of the reports, the watch committee has instructed the roads and survey committee to prepare a scheme for the construction of a southern by-pass.
Liverpool Wages Talks Continue.
The Conference of Liverpool and District Road Transport Employers (representing eight associations in the locality) is still in negotiation with the Liverpool Carters and Motormen's Union on the question of a new agreement to govern wages and avorking
conditions. Representatives of both sides have held a meeting and discussed certain contentious matters, of which a solution has still to be found.
It was agreed to refer these to a subcommittee of representatives of the employers and the employees. 250 M.P.s WRITE TO MINISTER OF TRANSPORT.
A.R.O. membership of 12,000 was claimed by Mr. R. Sewill, national director, at a meeting at Barking on Monday. The Association had 13 areas and 164 sub-areas, and it was, he said, fully representative of the haulage industry.
Mr. Sewill referred to a recent questionnaire sent out to Members of Parliament, as a result of which the Minister of Transport had received some 250 letters from M.P.s regardihg representation on the Transport Advisory Council. The response to this questionnaire showed that the Association was fully recognized by the legislature.
A feature of the Association's policy was to follow up every letter that appeared in the Press which was hostile to road transport.
Mr. J. F. E. Pye, chairman, Metropolitan Area, said that no fewer than 70 new members had joined the area this year, • Big Drive for S.T.R. Lecture.
A.R.O. is making big efforts to ensure the success of the meeting at Southall, next week, at which S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, will lecture. Hundreds of operators are being circularized, whilst a service of cars will operate to and from the town hall, between 7.30 p.m. -and 8 p.m. on April 20, for the convenience of those arriving by bus or coach.
C.M.U,,A. National Officials in Wales.
Interested operators in North Wales are invited to attend two open meetings that are being organized nex*: week by the C.M.U.A. Liverpool and North Wales Division. The first is at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham, on April 21, al .8 p.m., and the second takes place the following day at the Alexandra Hotel, Rhyl, at 7.30 p.m.
Speakers on both occasions will Je Mr. F. A. Walker, national passenger secretary, and Mr. J. L. Kinder, national organizer. Mr. W. Symonds is to take the chair at Rhyl.
Experience of the operation of schemes for stabilizing rates for local furniture removals in several districts in the West Riding of Yorkshire is stated to be distinctly encouraging. These plans, introduced by local committees set up on the initiative of the Yorkshire Furniture Removers Association, are in operation in Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, Batley, the Spen Valley, and Wakefield.
Stabilized local removal rates operating in the Huddersfield district had already been introduced by agreement between removers in that locality before the Association began to take steps on standardization.
Reports from the various districts indicate that, with few exceptions, the rates are being observed by bona fide removers. Realization that removers are each quoting the same local standard rates is countering the tendency for prospective customers to obtain a number of estimates.