L.M.S. OBJECTS TO STANDARD FARES
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A PPLICATIONS to permit road 1-1,fares of 65. to be charged from Cinderford and district to Birmingham and Weston-super-Mare, were made to the Western Traffic Commissioners, at Cheltenham, last week.
Mr. A: Sharman, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., objected. The railway company was not, he said, objecting to the operation of individual tours, but this was an application for the standardization of fares. The railway fares for day excursions were 65. 6d. to Vireston and 8s. to Birmingham. He suggested that the fares should be not .less than 6s. 6d. and 7s. 6cl. respectively.
The chairman (Mr. A. F. Nicholson) said that there were considerable differences in the excursion fares in the district, and it was felt to be desirable That these should be uniform. A meeting of operators had reached agreement on these fares. Unless a definite evil is shown to be created by allowing reductions of fares, we feel that the public should have the advantage of the lowest possible fares," he said, The proposed fares were allowed.
BIG FIGHT AGAINST HIGHER FARES.
As a consequence of the mass conference of 102 delegates convened by Portsmouth Trades Council, measures are to be taken against the proposal to raise the municipal bus fares. The conference represented 60,000 ratepayers, and resolved that an official protest be lodged with the city council.
FREE PASSES FOR COUNCILLORS: RESOLUTION STANDS.
A LTHOUGH three South Shields tAtown councillors were each ordered to pay £2 2s. costs at the local police court, recently, for voting on the question of issuing free transport passes to councillors, the resolution passed by the council on the matter still stands.
Mr. H. Muscroft, transport manager to South Shields Corporation, explained, on Monday, that the three councilors (Ali. J. R. Curbison, and Councillors R. Bradley and W. P. McAnany) were ordered to pay costs because they voted on a matter in which they had a pecuniary interest. The resolution, however, that the council should issue free passes to allow members to travel on corporation vehicles was perfectly valid and would he put into operation.
CAB AS EXPRESS CARRIAGE: HARDSHIP ADMITTED.
ON Tuesday, a King's Bench Divisional Court decided that, when two or more people hire a taxicab and agree to share the fare, they may be prosecuted for a criminal offence. Lord Hewart, and Justices du Parcq and Goddard had before them a case which, it was admitted, revealed a hardship arising from the strict interpretation of the Road Traffic Act, 1930.
On an appeal by the Eastern Traffic
Commissioners, the court decided that Miss Maudie Cross, of Ashmere Grove, Ipswich, had caused a taxicab to be used as an express carriage, without a licence, when it was hired to take her and some friends to a dance and they agreed to share the fare.
Lord Hewart said the case might seem a hard one, but that was no reason why the law should not be enforced. If grotesque results followed, that might be a reason for an amendment of the law. The appeal asking that the Ipswich magistrates should find that the offence was proved would be allowed.
MACCLESFIELD TO RUN BUSES?
AFTER a lengthy discussion at last week's meeting, Macclesfield Town Council decided upon the appointment of a special committee to consider the desirability of promoting a Bill in Parliament to obtain powers to operate motorbuses.
He wanted to remedy the mistake by their forefathers that allowed the North-Western Road Car Co., Ltd., to come to Macclesfield, said Councillor F. Fowler.