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NEW branches of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association have been formed in the past week at Morpeth, West Hartlepool and Leamington.
Speaking at West Hartlepool, where the new branch has a membership of more than 1,000, the organizer of the South Shields branch declared that the establishment of such branches revealed that the public was not going to endure State control and higher fares.
At Burton-on-Trtnt, the Mayor spoke to the town council on nationalization and said that he hoped the corporation would be allowed to run its own transport for the benefit of the ratepayers.
The chairman of Bournemouth Transport Committee, Aid. A. Langton, was more outspoken in a recent speech, in which he expressed his opposition to any move to embrace his undertaking in a State system. Bournemouth had a transport system worth almost
£1,000,000. Aid. Langton declared that he intended to join with the committee being set up in the southern area to fight the confiscation of transport services which were already publicly owned.
ANNIS CASE THE LONGEST EVER
HEARING of the application of Annis and Co.. Ltd., for A licences will be resumed before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority on April 12. This may be the final day.
This case, which has already taken nine days, is said to be the longest in traffic-court history. Twenty-eight witnesses have been heard and 77 documents handed in.
NEXT WEEK'S APPEAL
A T the next sitting of the Appeal
Tribunal, which takes place on March 28-29, at Halifax House, Strand, London, W.C.2, the Railway Executive, the Road Haulage Executive, A. Biggs (Luton). Ltd., Stanbridges (Luton), Ltd., and J. Stiff are respondents, and Messrs. Duffy Bros. are appellants against a decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.