Belfast Seeks Fares Increases
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BELFAST Transport Committee is to LP ask sanction for revisions of fares and stages, the main points of which arc the abolition of the children's flat-rate 2d. fare, and the shortening of the 3d. fare stage. The proposals, if granted, will bring in an extra /200,000 in a full year. The last revision of fares and stages was in June, 1960.
Since estimates for the present revision were prepared, further increased costsincluding £86,000 in a .full year for a general wage rise granted in April and £17,600 for increases of duty on fuel oils —have had to be met, says the Corporation.
One Short
QHEFF1ELD magistrates last week 6--/ fined Sunter Brothers, Ltd., Northallerton, .£15 for not complying with special regulations for carrying heavy
loads. Herbert Johnson, a driver, of NorthaIlerton, was fined £10.
The magistrates were told that a low loading trailer carried a boiler 60 ft. long and 154 ft. wide which weighed 65 tons. Vehicles carrying loads wider than 9 ft. 6 in. required three attendants including the driver. When Johnson was stopped, the vehicle had only two men in the cab.
LICENCE FOR CARAVAN TOWING
AN application by V. G. Waring and Sons, Windermere, Westmorland, for a B licence to allow one vehicle to tow caravans for 50 miles, and to tow boats and equipment as required, was granted by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, in Carlisle last week.
Mr. V. G. Waring, of College Road, Windermere, said that the firm repaired boats and acted as a marine agent. "If one of our customers goes on holiday we often have to take his boat from Windermere to wherever he is going."