Newcomer Fails in Bid for Tour Licence
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I N a reserved decision, the North Western Licensing Authority, has refused an application by a newcomer, Mr. T. Aspinall, Ashton-in-Makerfield, for an excursion and tour licence from North Ashton.
A bid by ene of the mine objectors, Messrs. E. and T. Eaves, Ashton-inMakertield, far a new picking-up point in North 'Ashton, was successful.
For Mr. Aspinall, there was claimed to he a lack of satisfactory facilities in North Ashton. The district had developed since the war, and had a population of 5.000. There was a large untapped potential market in which no one was interested until he applied.
Criticism by witnesses of local bus services was strongly repudiated by Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., who contended that services were reasonably adequate for a country district.
Messrs. Eaves said they had operated in the district for many years. Any abstraction would make their operations uneconomic.
ACCENT ON LORRIES
iNDIA'S second five-year plan emphasizes the importance of developing the motor industry. Production of goods vehicles has been given prominence. By 1%0-61, 40,000 lorries a year are to be produced, compared with 12,000 cars and 5.000 utilities.