• Rises in SBG • • • • fares delayed •
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• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners • • have refused to approve all of the fares • • increases applied for by the Scottish Bus • • Group. They have also postponed the • • operative date for the increases until • • February 5. • • The SBG had asked for the increases • • to come into force on January 5, and an • • official of the group said that the overall • • result of the Commissioners' decision • • would be to cut £162,000 from the • • expected additional revenue of • £566,000. • • Mr. W. M. Little, chairman of the • • Group, told the Commissioners when • • the application was heard early last • • December that if the applications failed • • the Group would have to look again at • • unremunerative services-27 per cent • • of the total mileage. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •