Moves to Counteract Municipal Losses
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ADEFICIT of £70,000 at the end of the current financial year is forecast by Edinburgh Transport Department, despite an expected increase in fares—estimated at £148,000 in a Lill year.--for which the department is to seek permission.
The deficit at May, 1956, is likely to be in the region of £100,000 unless there is a -distinct improvement in the number of passengers carried.
A reduction in distance for the 3d. fare was the main alteratiOn to the existing fares sehedule approved by the town council laSt week. A recommendation that sctrolars' fares should be increased was rejected by one vote. Walsall Transport Department have applied for permission to add fd. to the 1d. and 2d. ordinary fares, and Id, to workers' returns, with a minimum return rate of 4d.
Halifax Transport Department are • likely soon to apply for higher fares. Aid. E. 0. Bower, chairman of the transport committee, told the January meeting of the town council that it was " more than likely that I shall have something to say about an increase in fares" at next month's meeting.
HIGHER GUY OUTPUT?
CONGRATULAT1NG the workers of Guy Motors, Ltd., last week, on the part they had played in building up the reputation of the company during the past 40 years, Mr. Sydney Guy, chairman, said that while on his forthcoming visit to South Africa he looked forward to receiving cables telling him of rising output.
Employees presented him with a walnut bureau to mark the year in which he celebrated his 70th birthday and the company their 40th anniversary.
" COME TO MABLETHORPE "
SIX people who form the Mablethorpe Holidays Association are on a 10-week tour of south Yorkshire and the north Midlands to publicize the resort. They raised £1,000 to buy and equip an old 28-seat bus and visited. Doncaster last week-end. Many inquiries were made and local clubs promised to send coach parties this year. The object of the tour is to reassure potential visitors who may be discouraged from visiting MabIethorpe by the danger of floods.
ONLY A BRIDGE WOULD DO
QNLY a bridge would solve the problem of congestion at level crossings in Lincoln, Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, M.P. for the city, stated last week after a tour of the crossings. He said that road traffic had become worse since his previous tour three years ago.
The railways had done much to ease fhe situation, but Mr. de Freitas intended to raise the matter again in Parliament.
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