Costly Customs
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CUSTOMS and Excise duties amount%.-•• ing to £87,202,885 were received from the 709,825,527 gallons of heavy oil for use as road fuel which were retained for home consumption during the financial year ended last March.
Announcing this in the Commons last week, Mr. Anthony Barber, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, said that the total duties received from heavy and light oils came to £408,771.802.
He told Sir Waiter Bromley-Davenport (Cons., Knutsford) that the amount of light oils kept for home use as motor and aviation spirit was 2.539.032,811 gallons, on which duties were £315,278.361.
HOVERCRAFT ON BELFAST ROUTE?
rAA PRIVATE Liverpool air charter company, Stairways, has applied to the Air Transport Licensing Board for permission to introduce the first network of hovercraft services to carry passengers and goods between I.iverpool. Belfast. Dublin and Glasgow.
Stairways is seeking special licences for these routes and plans to run a hovercraft service from Liverpool to Belfast. from Liverpool, Holyhead and Dublin. and from Liverpool, Glasgow, S:ranraer and Belfast.
The firm is placing orders for 14 hovercraft capable of carrying 150 passengers and goods at an initial cost of £500.000.
RECORD INCOME AT CARDIFF
CARDIFF CORPORATION buses and trolleybuses netted a record income of 11,489,660 in the financial year ended March 31. 1961. This was stated at a meeting of the Cardiff Transport Committee last week, by Mr. J. F. Siddall, general manager of the Cardiff undertaking. Mr. Siddall said that income was £63,023 above the previous year and was mainly due to fares increases made during the year.
But he added that serious consideration must be given towards meeting increased costs of new wage awards amounting to £47,570 a year.