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After a public sitting earlier this year the South Wales
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Commissioners refused applications by Daniel Jones for licences allowing them to operate the services to Pendine, and one of the matters which exercised their minds in so doing was the fact • that Western Welsh had said in evidence it was quite clear that if they lost the contract services the company would seriously have to consider the possibility of abandoning some of their more unremunerative services and curtailing others which were not so unremunerative.
Daniel Jones appealed to the Minister who, after causing an inquiry to be held, ordered the Commissioners to grant the application. Allowing the appeal, the Minister in his decision, said he recognized _that the services in Carmarthen were unremunerative and that Western Welsh's stage operations as a whole produced a very small return. But he accepted his inspector's view that the effects on any of the parties of failing to obtain or losing the contract services were not likely to be such as to seriously curtail their other services or to be seriously detrimental to the public interest.
Notice to Abandon
But Western Welsh have now given notice to the Commissioners and to the local authorities concerned, of their proposal to abandon the stage service mentioned earlier. They were to have ceased operating it from the end of last month, and are only continuing it now,
I understand, as a kind of indulgence to the local authorities until some other solution can be found.
In a letter circulated to these local authorities, Western Welsh giving reasons for their drastic action-have suggested to the authorities that they should approach Daniel Jones with a view to taking over the route in question "as a result of the two remunerative contracts that they (Daniel Jones) have now obtained from the War Office at the expense of Western Welsh ".
However unfortunate this whole matter is-and I am thinking particularly of any unfortunate member of the public who may be deprived of his only means of travelling between point A and B along the route-I cannot help feeling that the local authorities could perhaps have intervened in this matter at an earlier stage.
However, it might provide a lesson for the future. Perhaps it would be advisable for operators, faced with the possible loss of a contract service under similar circumstances as these, to indicate which would be the first and subsequent unremunerative services that they would abandon or curtail, and to advise local authorities of this possibility before the public sitting at which they would be appearing as objectors. Traffic Commissioners are obliged to hear any representations put to them by local authorities on behalf of the public, and it may be that this kind of evidence cOuld tip the scales in favour of the objectors.
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