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)15T of 22 applications to fill jobs as bus drivers for Chiltern Queens Ltd., 21 of applicants stated that it would be neces:y for them to be provided with living accomxlation.
This is the position which faces the canny as it approaches a near-desperate situon over the shortage of drivers.
At present there are some eight drivers on staff, but the company would be happier to : a dozen men available. Now it has made a -ther application to the Henley authority be allowed to build four houses in Woodte, the company's headquarters village. There are two caravans. on the site of the )rks, but these are already under notice to it from Henley Rural District Council.
Mr. E. C. E. Barrett, a director of the bus mpany, said: "We know that already our st application and appeal to be allowed to build the site was turned down on access grounds. "But this matter of making sure there is always adequate supply of drivers is an essential :tor in the running of the present services. "We hope that our latest application can be owed in some fashion. It would make a materdifference to our getting staff."