EXCLUSIVE BUS-OPERATING RIGHTS.
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1-VrEMBERS of the parliamentary _IN_Lcommittee of the Oxford Corporation recently had an interview with representatives of the City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., with respect to clauses in the Oxford Extension Rill 1928, whereby it is provided that " any reference in the Oxford and District Tramways Act, 1914, to the City of Oxford shall be deemed to mean the
existing city, and nothing in that At shall prohibit the corporation from granting licences to any persons for omnibuses to ply for hire in the added areas." it also had the advantage, with the help of representatives of the watch committee, of discussing other matters affecting the bus services with the company's representatives, with the result that it has been recommended that the
exclusive right of the company to licences for motorbuses to ply for hire within the city be extended to the added areas subject to the following conditions :—
(1) Stopping places of the company's buses within the city to be subject to the approval of the watch committee.
(2) All country bases of the company to begin and end their journeys in Castle Street,. or at some other agreed depot, so soon as possible, neither its country buses nor any other country buses being allowed. to stop in the vicinity of Carfax.
(8) The parcels office to be removed from High Street to Castle Street or other agreed depot so somfi as possible, after which the central office in High Street to be Used only as an inquiry office.
. (4) The corporation to have power to lieehse buses plying for hire in external districts to ply for hire within the city on condition that a bus, when coming into Oxford, may set down passengers but not pick them up within thb city, and that a 'ma, when leaving Oxford, may pick up passengers but may not set them down within the city.
.(5) The fares to be further revised at' the end of 12 months on the basis of 1d. per mile throughout the city, and up to three miles at id. per half-mile beyond the first mile and, as from April 1st, 1929, the fares authorized by the Oxford Motor Services Act, 1921, shell be repealed and the fares authorized by the Oxford and District -Tramways Act, 1914, shall be revised.
(6) The company's annual contribution to be increased from 800 to £1,200,