Employment Order Modified
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AN Order which has been laid before Parliament by the Minister of Labour and National Service and was published last week, makes it no longer necessary for an employer to include in an advertisement for workers a statement that applications must be made to an employment exchange or scheduled employment agency. The Order comes into effect on August 11._
At present, the proviso to Article 3 of the Notification of Vacancies Order, 1952, permits employers to advertise for workers only if the advertisement contains a requirement that anyone answering it must apply to an employment exchange or to a scheduled employment agency. This arrangement has resulted in some difficulties for advertisers and newspapers.
By amending the present provision, -the new Order enables employers to seek by advertisement to engage any person replying to an advertisement, if the advertisement contains, or is prefaced by, a statement to the effect that the engagement must be made through a local office or scheduled agency. The Order is called the Notification of Vacancies (Amendment) Order, 1952, and is obtainable from The Stationery Office, price 2d.
CHASSIS ENGINEERING IN SIMPLIFIED FORM
THE second edition of "Automobile Chassis Design," by R. Dean-Averns, is profusely illustrated and contains new material on springing, independent front suspension, measurement of stress and anti-corrosive treatment.
The author has had extensive experience in heavy-vehicle design, but whilst emphasis of the book is on the problems of this type of transport, the work as a whole is also applicable to the lighter class of chassis and much information is given on light-car practice. Published by Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., Stamford Street, London, S.E.L this second edition costs £1 10s.
DIMINISHING RETURNS
THE stage has been reached in Edinburgh's transport department when the economic law of diminishing returns is exerting its influence. Fares increases are not yielding proportionate additional income.
Mr. 3. G. Banks, the city treasurer, made these observations at a council meeting. in the past fiscal year, the trams lost £34,400 and the motorbuses £66,000.
EUROPE'S BIGGEST REFINERY
THoutput of the Shell refinery at E%rnis, Rotterdam, will be at the rate of 9m. tons a year by the beginning of 1954, when a new distillation plant is completed. The installation will then be the largest in Europe, including the United Kingdom.
Work has already started on the new--, unit, which will cost £2m. New construction at Pernis has already cost over £20m.