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BECAUSE applications put forward by four Welsh bus companies to increase the prices of season and weekly tickets were not set out properly in the Notices and Proceedings. , the South Wales Traffic Commissioners last week reserved their decision until the whole of the application g are resubmitted.
Nearing the end of the four-day inquiry at Pontypridd, Mr. Alun Talfan Davies, Q.C., who was objecting to two of the applications on behalf of the Swansea Corporation, pointed out that ambiguities arose because the applications which appearedin the notices and proceedings did not clearly stipulate the full proposed changes in respect of season tickets for scholars and students. After a short adjournment, the Commissioners Said they would finish the inquiry but would reserve their decision until the whole of the application had been resubmitted in the notices and proceedings.
The four companies, the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., the Western Welsh Omnibus Co, Ltd., and J. James and Sons, Ltd., of Ammanford, Swansea, were applying for weekly ticket rates to be increased by five per cent., monthly season-ticket rates to be increased by 74 per cent and three-monthly seasonticket rates to be increased to three times the proposed monthly rate less 5 per cent.
• In evidence it was stated that all four companies had suffered a recession in trade. Mr. Ivor Lyndon Gray told the Commissioners that over a six-year period between 1954 and 1960 the Rhondda Company had experienced a recession of six 'million passengers. The Rhondda company was seeking an increase of £22,000.