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From Our Political Corms.
CONSERVA'r1VE back-bet to limit the railways' pow vide alternative passenger s road are contained in new a La the Transport Bill, now i mittee stage in the Commons. group, headed by Mr. Geoff] and Wing Commander Grant. contesting the issue of discon lines.
. While they agree that th should have powers to prc passenger transport as a sub " temporarily interrupted " ra they oppose the intention that should also apply to services been discontinued. Their a: seek to delete from this part all reference to discontinued $.
Meanwhile, the Opposition in their efforts to create a lift the Road Board—have swit attack to another fundamental guiding principle of railway e( Two amendments in the oar G.-R. Strauss, Mr. R. Mellis E. Popplewell seek to insert statutory duties of the Rails that ' it shall provide s.N-vi. (mate for the needs of the pi culture, commerce and industt
This is what Mr. Marples ha avoided doing in drafting the believes that commercial con must come first, and Dr. Beer not be hamstrung, initially a vague obligations conflicting v A further amendment, laid Members Strauss, Mellish, and Marsh, seeks to provide th Board with powers not only passenger transport by road vices have been discontinued, transport as well.