"Stop Improving Workers' Services"
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CHAIRMAN of the South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. I Iodgson, said at Cardiff last week that the time had come to call a halt to the constant applications by workers for improved services and to have regard for the existing facilities. He refused permission to Caerphilly Transport Department to run a bus service from Senghenydd to Llanbradach
Mr. Hodgson said that British -Railways had been running a service to the colliery for many years, but they had been forced to stop working into the colliery itself. The miners had a 10-mM. walk from the pit to the railway station, and that was admittedly an inconvenience.
The authority considered, however, that the difference between the two services was virtually negligible, and since the short-term licence had been in operation, railway traffic had dropped greatly.
There was a threat that the entire rail' service might be withdrawn, and it was the Authority's duty to take a broad view in the public interest. "We consider that the comparative small degree of discomfort to the 'miners does not outweigh what we have to do," Mr. Hodgson said.
COMMER PRICE CHANGES
REVISED prices have been issued for Commer. 5-ton and 7-ton forwardcontrol petrol and oil-engined models. These took effect on Monday.
The total prices, including purchase tax, range from: 5-ton petrol-engined chassis, £1,076 1 ls. Id.; 5-ton oilengined chassis, £1,517 1 Is. 114.; 7-ton petrol-engined chassis, £1,135 18s. 10d.: 7-ton oil-engined chassis, £1,576 19s. 8d. The approximate price of drop-sided bodies is £200 extra in each case.
Corresponding increases have also been made to the prices of Avenger passenger chassis and Commer-Hands tractor units.
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