Opposition to State Buses Grows
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MATIONALIZATION of Lowestoft's transport undertaking would mean the loss of £50,000 and the equivalent of a 6d. rate, said Canon B. P. W. Stather Hunt at a recent meeting of the local ratepayers' association. A resolution urging the council to resist nationalization was passed unanimously.
Mr. H. Morgan, chairman of the National Union of Ratepayers' Associations, spoke of the tendency for councils to become sub-administrative offices of Government departments. The public had to decide whether essential services were to be controlled remotely, or whether effort was to be made to preserve the powers they had. Nationalization of passenger road transport was remote control at its worst, he said.
Monmouth and District Chamber of Commerce has decided to support the local branch of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association. A branch of 0.P.P.A. has been formed iii Carmarthen.