RURAL BUSES: SCOTLAND TO PRESS MINISTER
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AMEMORANDUM on country bus travel, which is being prepared by the District Councils Association of Scotland, will be presented to the Minister of State for Scotland early next year At a meeting to promote the idea, the council stressed that rural areas did not want luxury transport. They sought 12-seat vehicles, and would willingly accept one-man operation.
The memorarrdum will ask the Minister to subsidize the operation of larger buses, or to encourage the production of more small vehicles.
12-SEATERS WANTED
UTNECONOMIC bus services were ‘..) discussed by the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel at their meeting in Inverness. Among suggestions put forward were the greater use of
• I2-seat buses, and an extension of the assistance given to rural services by Post Office mail contracts.
FARMERS TOO BUSY TO ATTEND INQUIRY
BECAUSE the hearing clashed with an important sale which had cbunter-attracted many important farmer witnesses, the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon, last week adjourned a public inquiry at Stockton-on-Tees into an application by Hutchinson Bros., Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, for a variation in the conditions of their A licence.
Mr. Hanlon said he accepted that farmers nowadays had to fit in events as their work would allow, and the hearing would be adjourned until a time and place suitable for them.