Bus Station Upkeep is Too Costly
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IN the past 18 months, the West Riding I Automobile Co., Ltd., have paid out £1,084 on repairs to their bus station at Wakefield, together with £12,700 on wages for staff there. Pointing this out to the local valuation panel, last week, Mr. J. E. Kilburn, for the company; declared: "We should be very pleased to be without this bus station."
He was presenting an appeal against the station's assessment of £2,400 rateable value, which proved partially successful—it was reduced. to £2,160.
Claiming that the.assessment was excessive and unfair, he said there had been a deterioration in the passenger transport industry, and the position now was nothing like what it was when the station was opened. At that time the rateable value was put at £1,200. The company were not allowed to trade from the station, although Wakefield Corporation considered it something of a showpiece.
Mr. H. F. Orris, valuation officer, said he based his figures on the effective capital value of the station, which he fixed at £48,000, and not on the cost of building it.
Granting the £240 reduction, Ald. J. Rafferty, presiding, said they felt that the company had made out a case.
NEW DAIMLER BUSES ENTIRELY new designs of Daimler I—. bus must be developed for the future and work on them is now proceeding, says Mr. John V. Sangster, chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., in his annual statement.