ALLEGED PRIVATE TRADING BY A MUNICIPALITY.
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High Court proceedings that will be watched wiz.h interest by the coach and bus trade generally are to be instituted by the Merthyr Tydfil has and coach proprietors, with a view to obtaining an injunction restraining the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council from an alleged abuse of its statutory powers of bus running, i.e., the entering into alleged illegal trading competition with the private owners. Some time ago the proprietors in the area, upon obtaining notification that the council had permitted one of its buses to be hired out to a private party to convey it to Swansea to witness the Swansea-New Zealand Rugby football match, banded together and instructed Messrs. F. S. Simons, Smyth and Daniel, solicitors, to inform the council that the owners contend this to be an abuse of the statutory powers of the council and an encroachment on private trading right. The council was informed that a repeti
tion of the hiring out of municipal buses would lead to an application for an injunction to restrain from such a proceeding. During the recent election the council again permitted the hiring out of buses to private parties, and an injunction has been applied for. In the meanwhile the endeavour of the council's Watch Committee to secure a monopoly for the council bus enterprise, by refusal of licences to private proprietors continues.