More Services for ' Old People
Page 40
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
THE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. I at Leeds on Monday, granted an application by C. G. Littlewood, Ltd., Sheffield, for new express licences between Sheffield and Eastbourne and Weymouth.
Mr. C. G. Littlewood said the Eastbourne service would operate on Wednesdays only during May, the last two weeks of September and the first two weeks in October. The service to Weymouth would be operated similarly, but on Thursdays.
The applications were for licences similar to those already held for Torquay, Hornsea and Southsea for the benefit of old-age pensioners, disabled persons and their helpers.
Mr. Littlewood had been approached by the National Association of Old-Age Pensioners to run to Eastbourne and Weymouth. Objections by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and the railways had been withdrawn on the understanding that no additional vehicles were sought, but were provided out of the existing allowance of 35 in May and 16 in September and October.
No passengers were allowed to book without producing their pension books.
T.U.C. SEEK TAX CHANGES
SO that essential needs should be actively favoured, larger initial taxation allowances should be available to vital industries and services, the general council of the Trades Union Congress have advised the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In previous years. the council have urged that initial allowances for investment should be granted selectively to companies in accordance with priorities representing the national interest. Experience is claimed to have justified this.
BIG STATION PLAN
A PLAN for a concrete structure to PA be built in St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, to provide cover for a municipal bus station and a platform on which 300-400 cars could be parked, is being considered by a sub-committee of Glasgow Planning Committee. The cost might be .€100,000.