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• Cheshire residents are paying 10p per head a year in rural bus service subsidies. Mr A. R. Chisholm, the county treasurer. has told the council's Parliamentary and general purposes committee which met in Chester.
Members rejected, by an overwhelming majority, a notice of motion which demanded that subsidies for public transport should end at the present run of commitments. Mr Chisholm said that all applications for subsidies were carefully investigated. It was true to say that the county had not been inundated with applications from small private operators. One councillor told the committee that he felt bolstering up a monopoly industry with public money was wrong and the present £60,000 for the year subsidy in Cheshire was bound to increase.