WHAT IS EXPECTED IN SOUTH WALES
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Some of the More Important Matters That Will Soon be Coming Before the Traffic Commissioners THE report by daily newspapers that the South Wales Traffic Commissioners. intended to hold their sittings in private and had already held such a sitting at ,Neath, is unfounded in both particulars.
At the initial sitting, May 4th and 5th, at Pontypridd County Court, 26 applications for licences will be gone into and five opposed cases heard. One of the oppose,l. applications is thatoof Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., for the Pontypridd-Caerphilly route. Cardiff Corporation is the objector.
The Commissioners will sit at Neath and Swansea late in May and hearings are being arranged at Cardiff and Newport, probably in May.
An interesting case soon to be heard is that in which it is possible that, South Wales owners may test the issue as to what is or what is not the "private hire" which is proscribed to municipal bus traffic in the Traffie Ad. Aberdare Council has made application, in addi
tion to seeking sanction for a number of defined extra-boundary routes, for licence to run tours. The opposing contention, now being discussed, is that tours with undefined routes and times, are not a public-service provision.
Clvdach Council has decided to send a deputation to the forthcoming Swansea sitting in support of the application of licences for Eclipse Saloon Services, which is to be opposed by Swansea Corporation. Newport Town Council has decided to oppose any and every application made to the Commissioners by Reliance Bus Services for licences for routes centred on Newport.