Bus Operators in Serious Plight
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CED with increased costs from the • ecent pay award of more than ,000 a year, Maidstone and District or Services, Ltd., and their subry companies, have applied for tission to raise fares. It was' iunced on Wednesday that the ication was due to be heard at istone on March 15 and 16, and at ings on the following day.
Mess the oil-fuel tax is reduced in Budget, a further application for er fares would be inevitable, H. Watton, chairman of BirmingTransport Department, said on ;day. Recent increases in expendiwill cost the transport department It £250,000 a year. Of this, 125,000 :sprits recent increases in the price !net, and £18,000 the recent pay rd to platform staff.
• adford Transport Department, • }1 was recently granted permission ncrease fares, faces an expected it of about £49,000 on the next icial year. The transport committee told on Monday that the 3d. an • pay award to craftsmen would cost 20, and the increase in the price iil fuel, £3,500. Consideration of mods of increasing revenue were rred until a later meeting.
• eston Transport Department pros to add id. to all ordinary single er news of applications for creased fares appears on page 66.] t. GRESHAM COOKE LEAVES S.M.M.T.
STATEMENT is expected today announcing officially the resigna,of Mr. R. Gresham Cooke from position of director of the. Society /lotor. Manufacturers and Traders. !fore his election as M.P. for :kenham, he said that he would quish the post if he entered lament.
r. Stanley Clark, secretary of the ety, has been nominated as Mr. ice's successor. The appointment considered yesterday at a meeting le council of the S.M.M.T.