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Appeal Against. Rhondda Fars ?.
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DEPRESENTINO a number of IA. objectors at the hearing in Cardiff, on Monday, of the • application for variations 'in fares by the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., 'Mi. D. Meurig Evans declared that they had only minor complaints regarding the distribution of the increases. " The main .objeet of this objection is to obtain clarification at a higherlevel of the principle of depreciation," be said: ' He said it was recognized that costs had gone up. The objectors had been advised that the processes laid down by the Road Traffic Act had to be followed before steps could be taken inOther quarters. ,The South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr. H: J, Thom, commented: In the past it has always been made .clear by the Minister that he is' not. laying down any precedents."
Mr. S. D. Herington, for the applicant, revealed that since 1938 running costs had gone up from•9.37d. per mile to 23.54d. per mile. Taking into account the increased mileage since 1938, the concern had to find another 1437,534 a year, compared with 1938.
Economies enabled the company to absorb about £230,000 of this amount. The increased fares proposed, which meant, in the main, the addition of ld. to single fares and 2d. to returns, were estimated to augment revenue by 154,000 a year.
Application was granted.
MINISTRY "OPTIMISTIC" TO EXPECT EARLY RETURNS
THE Ministry of Transport was
"exceedingly optimistic" if it expected passenger operators to return statistics so soon after the end of the fiscal year, stated Mr. J. M. C. Higgs, M.P., when he defended Samuel Johnson (Supreme). Lid., at Stourbridge, last week, against a charge of failing to make an annual financial and statistical return.
Mr. R. K. Cooke, for the Director of public Prosecutions, said that the company's accounting year ended on March 31 and the returns had to be sent in by June 30, Requests were sent to the defendant, but the return was not made until December 11, by which time a summons had been issued.
A tine of 12, plus £4 4s. advocate's
fee, was imposed. •
C.A.V. EXECUTIVE CHANGES I T was announced by C.A.V., Ltd., on
Tuesday that Mr. E. L. Cadwallader, who is 70, has relinquished his executive appointment, but retains his seat on the board. He will continue as con sulting director. . Mr. Hubert G. Mason, now appointed joint general manager, is CA.V.'s director of sales and service, and a member of the board of Joseph Lucas (Exports), Ltd. He has been with the C.A.V. organization for 26 years and was appointed to the board in 1945 He will continue to control the sales and service activities of the company..