'Support your buses' Scottish towns urged
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• Scottish burghs were last week urged to join in schemes of support for rural bus services. Mr George Younger, UnderSecretary of State at the Scottish Office, who made the point during a Commons debate, said that the burghs had much to gain from these buses being supported.
Country people came into the burghs to do their shopping, and it was definitely in the interests of the burghs to join together, if they thought fit, with the surrounding area,
to see that these bus services were• supported.
Mr Younger emphasized that this was not a question of expecting the local authorities and ratepayers to bear the whole cost. The vast majority of the cost came from Government money. Local authorities not only got the standard 50 per cent grant for services they wished to help, but also the remaining 50 per cent was eligible for rate support grant.