Finance for Units in Scotland
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INFORMATION about the financing of purchases of British Road Services units by Scottish finance corporations was given to a meeting of hauliers at Inverness on Monday by Sir David Robertson, M.P.
He said that despite difficulties, 78 per cent, of lambs sold at Lairg last week were sent to the south by road and only 22 per cent, by rail. This showed that farmers were rising against "the penal treatment of British Railways' monopoly."
. He commended the formation of the North of Scotland Freight Charges Committee, an organization instituted to contest the freight charges levied in the region.
Sir John Brooke, in the chair, said that the committee represented various commercial Anterests and their object was to investigate me,ans for making transport more economic. They had found that it cost 2s. per head less to carry sheep to the Borders by road than by rail.