Joint Municipal Bus Services.
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rT1HE bus services of the West Mon mouthshire Urban District Councils' Omnibus Board were formally inaugurated on October 18th. when the members of the Board, together with a number of the members of constituent councils which are not on the Board and officials of the services, made a preliminary tour by bus of the routes to be maintained before the services were thrown open to the public.
The constituent members of the Board are the Mynyddislwyn and Bedwellty Urban District Councils, and other councils of the area can join the Board under the terms of the Act of 1026.
The services to be run at present, and until sanction for out-area services has been re4ived from the Ministry of Transport, will be between the following places :—Blackwood and Ahertysswg ; Blackwood and Markham and Aberbargoecl ; Blackwood and Oakdale; Blackwood and Cwmfelinfach ; Blackwood and Tstradmynach.
Under the joint Act of the IvlynyddisIwyn and Bedwellty Councils of last year a sum of £30,000 is to be spent—including the cost of the promotion of the Bill —on the services and most of it has already been earmarked for expenditure.
At a celebration ceremony held at Aberbargoed to mark the inauguration of the services, Mr. Alderman Edgar Davies, J.P. (Fleur-de-lis, Mon.), who is chairman of the joint Board, presided, and was supported by the vice-chairman, Mr. Samuel Garland (of the MynycldisIwyn Urban District Council), Messrs. T. G. Griffiths (Blackwood), and W. D. R. Lewis (Bargoed), joint secretaries to the Board ; Mr. J. H. James, the Board's treasurer ; Mr. George Rock (late of Reading), manager of the services ; Mr. D. 3. Adey (manager of the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council's bus services), consulting engineer to the Board; and Messrs. Councillors Evan Thomas (Aberbargoed), Lewis Lewis (Blackwood), T. H. Reed (New Tredegar), C. Thomas (Argoed), W. S. Nash, J.P. (Fleur-de-lis), and Mr. R. Z. Jones (Aberbargoed), deputy clerk to the Bedwellty Urban District Council.
The chairman said that although, in view of the industrial situation, they might be disappointed in the results of the working during the first few years, it was considered that the scheme would eventually prove successful.