THE MARCH OF THE MOTOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 17 January 1913, Page 4

THE MARCH OF THE MOTOR.

I How very successful motor buses have proved in Britain is indicated by a report just published in the English papers, giving the number of these vehicles licensed for service in Greater Loudon on Deceinocr 31st of the jeais ]905-11, inclusive, and on June 30th, 1912, The figures are as follows: |

In addition, most of tlio provincial towns in England have,services ol motor ’buses, which are threatening to run the trams oil’ the streets. \\ Idle the number of ’buses has increased + o this extent, only two towns in Great Britain have installed railless trams. These latter, therefore, are somewhat in their experimental stages. THE MEAT INDUSTRY. Dealing with the threatened cessation of work on the part of the slaughtermen at the hig meat works of the Dominion, the ‘Farmers’ Union Advocate’ points out the unfortunate position in which the farmer is placed in this matter. There is no doubt that ultimately he will have to pay for any concession given; he has to hear the greater portion of the cost of a strike, and yet he cannot interfere or have a say in conceding or refusing the demands made. The ‘Advocate’ hopes that the compan.es in the oming discussion will bear in mind that the farmer is getting tired of this state of things, and is anxious support them in resisting these demands D adds that if the companies will intimate to the unions their intention of standing firm the farmers will see to it that their stock are killed, dressed, and frozen, until such time as the - men are brought to a reasonable state ol mind. If a fight has to come, it is better, it concludes, to come in a favourable season like the present than in one when feed is scarce.

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