Complaints About Service for Pakistanis
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THE Yorkshire Traffic Cornmissicners
• in Leeds last week heard of complaints regarding the operation of a bus service between London Airport and Bradford for Pakistanis arriving in this country. Mohammed Zahoor Miran, of Mirans Luxury Coaches, Fenwick Drive. Bradford, was to have applied for a fullterm licence to continue the service he has been operating on a three-month licence, but in a letter to the hearing Miran. who did not appear, said he had not operated the service since July 6 because immigrants were no longer coming into the country due to the new Immigration Act. His letter intimated that if the irnmigrapts started coming in again he would apply".'or a licence again.
The chairman, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, felt it was " pretty disgraceful " that only that morning a letter had been delivered by hand regarding the service being cancelled and he added, " We shall certainly Want to see him again if he does apply in the future because we have hal many letters from his own people corr plaining of the way he has been operat ing the service." One of the allegation! said the chairman, was that Miran hal been overcharging "like the taxi people.
EASTERN NATIONAL APPEAL
I N a written decision the Minister c Transport has allowed part of a appeal by the Eastern National Omnibc Co., Ltd., against a grant by the. Easter Traffic Commissioners to C. E. Barrie and Son, in respect of a group of excui sions and tours from Clacton-on-Sea t Ipswich via St. Osyth.
The Minister considers that Easter National's existing excursions taking i Clacton provide sufficient accomrnodatio and he therefore directs that the pickin up and setting down facilities at Clacto granted to Barnes be revoked.
nevertheless confirms the Commissioner grant to Barnes in respect of St. Osyth.