20 MAY 1938, Page 6

The demand for the report, by the way, is astonishing.

The first edition of 2,50o was sold out on the morning of publication (as I have reason to know, since I tried in vain to buy a copy, and only secured one in the end through the personal kindness of the Minister). It is natural that local authorities and the great motoring organisations should be keenly interested in the traffic proposals, but that hardly explains the public rush for a report that costs 7s. 6d. and, when all is said, only represents proposals no single one of which can be regarded in advance as certain of adoption. * * * *