Leeds Not to Seek Pensioners'. Concession : Fares in the Balance
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THE application for higher bus and tramfares by Leeds Corporation will not, as intended, seek a concession for old-age pensioners whereby they could travel at children's rates between 10 a.m.-4 p.m.' This is because of the Court of Appeal's ruling that Birmingham's free travel for pensioners is
Aid. I. Rafferty, chairman of the transport committee, has stated that he was sure it would be the Labour. Party's intention to seek authority to allow concession fares for pensioners.
The committee originally proposed a scheme to add £490,000 to annual revenue, but modified it to realize £68,000 less. The revision, said Ald. Rafferty, would enable the undertaking to maintain a fares structure which would give uniformity of charges throughout the city, and allow the maximum fare from any central point to the city boundary to be not more than 6d.
Newcastle upon Tyne Transport Committee recommend that all adult fares, including workmen's tickets, should be increased by Id. This would yield an extra 1350.000 a year. Fares in the city last rose in 1951. During the next five years, £750,000 will be needed for new buses.
Stockton-on-Tees Corporation are not likely to raise fares, although the recent 8s. a week wage award will cost £12,000 a year.
Possible means for economizing at Halifax include the operation of oneman buses on regular services, supplemented by normal double-deckers at lush hours, or even the use of one-man double-deckers, Mr. R. Mackenzie, general manager of the transport undertaking, has suggested.
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a revision of fares is inevitable," says Mr. E. G. A. Singleton, general manager of Burton Transport Department: The recent wage rise would cost the department approximately £5,500 a year.
At Eastbourne, where the rise will cost the corporation "not less than £7,000 a year," a warning was given by the chairman of the transport committee that fares might have to be increased again.
OBITUARY WI regret to record the deaths of Yv• MR. CHRISTOPHER SMITH and MR. HARRY D. GOTTS.
Mr. Smith was a former transport manager of Spillers, Ltd., from whom he retired in 1449 after 40 years' service. He had been transport adviser to the National Association of British and Irish Millers, and a vice-president of the Mansion House Association on Transport. Mr. Smith served on the associates' committee of the British Road Federation and the main committee of the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport.
I-le was also a member of the transport policy committee of the Federation of British Industries. He was first chairman of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association and a national vicechairman.
Mr. Gotts, who was in his 64th year, was chairman and managing director of Maxima Lubricants, Ltd.
PROFIT AND LOSS
Job Whetvay and Son, Ltd., after charging £19,657 to -taxation, made a net profit of £12.519 in the year ended September 30, last. A dividend of 30 per cent, is being paid.