WITHIN 24 hours of the hearing, the IN Yorkshire Licensing
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Authority last week granted the application of the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., to vary fares on 247 services. All single fares are to be raised, return rates fixed at 1+ times the single fare, with a minimum of 6d., adult monthly contracts increased by 10 per cent. and apprentice-rate 12-journey tickets abolished.
On the existing scales, it was stated, the company would lose £200,000 this year. Special facilities for miners were costing the concern £56,000 a year, whilst the revenue from this source amounted to only £28.000.
The Licensing Authority, Major F. S. Eastwood, commented that other travellers were subsidizing colliers to the tune of /27,000 a year.
South Yorkshire Motors, Ltd., was granted modifications on the same scale. [Other news of fares, page 385.)