BUS FARES AND THE THC
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AT MP suggested in the Commons this week that THC bus companies should not be allowed to object to the renewal of licences of private bus firms just because they were charging low fares. Mr. John Peyton (Tory, Yeovil) wanted the Transport Minister to give a direction to the THC stopping objections when the fares of private undertakings were less than those authorized and less than those which the nationalized companies were themselves charging. But Mr. John Morris, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, rejected this idea. He said it would not be desirable to fetter the discretion of any bus operator to make representations to the Commissioners that the fares charged by another operator were harmful to his own ability to provide services in the public interest. The Commissioners decided such cases on their merits.