Cheap Fares May Cause Waste .
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IN an appeal decision •announced on .1Wednesday, the:Minister of Trans port has Set forth the principle that concessionary fares for :certain_ categories of person could result in wasteful competition and be " inimical to the maintenance of adequate, suitable and efficient services."
He has dismissed' the appeal by Nottingham Corporation against the East Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to permit them to charge concession fares to old-age pensioners on a stage 'service between 'Nottingham
and. Aspley: •• • = The Minister states that inexercising the Powers given :6y SectiOn 7.1(4) (a) of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, a Licensing Authority 'ought to' haVe regard to Section 72 (3) (d), which. states: "the needs of the•area'as a whole in-relation to traffic (including the prOvision of adequate, suitable and efficient services, the elimination of unnecessary services and the provision of unremunerative services), and the co-ordination of all forms of passenger transport, including transport by rail."
He is also unable to accept the appellants' contention that Section 72 (4) (a) limits the power of the Licensing Authority to preventing the imposition of excessively high fares.
49 MORE SOLD IN WEST THIRTY-FIVE more lorries (245 tons
6 cwt.) have been bought from British Road , Services by Messrs. R. Febry, I. A. Ball-and F. A. A. Baylis, West End Garage, Chipping Sodbury. So far, 18 have been assigned.
Another substantial purchase is that