T HE North Western Licensing Authority reserved decision on some matters
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which arose out of a case last week in which W. Knowles and Sons (Garages), Ltd., Bolton, sought to modify their excursion and tour licences.
The company applied for two additional picking-up points, to operate 15 more tours, to increase threefold the number of vehicles that they might operate and to adjust fares. They wished to reduce the evening BoltonBlack pool fare from 6s. 6d. to 4s. 9d., the charge permitted during the illuminations period only, and to increase the period return fare from 7s. 3d. to I0s.
The Autherity sanctioned the operation f 14 extra tours. A request to run to London was withdrawn. He granted one of the picking-up points, but refused the other. The application to reduce the evening fare was rejected, and decision was reserved on the request to raise the period return fare and to operate additional coaches.
Mr. H. Backhouse, for the company, said that 3,717 signatures had been collected last season from disappointed customers unable to travel on Knowles coaches. The cheaper evening fare to Blackpool was wanted for young people.
Mr. A. Walker, for Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., said that it was undesirable .to create a multiplicity of picking-up points. There was no need, he stated, to increase the number of licences threefold.
• Mr. H. Booth, for the Railway Executive, submitted that there was no justification for reducing the evening fare; it would not he proper to cut one fare and raise another, adding that rail excursions might be placed in jeopardy. On only 70 out of 153 days had the applicants used the permitted number of vehicles, and on 83 days there was no evidence that they were carrying the maximum number of passengers.