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Special Grant for Immigrants
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BECAUSE Pakistani and Indian immigrants arriving at London Airport had been exploited by London taxi drivers, it was necessary to provide a special coach for them, said Mr. S. M. A. Tremasi, representing a Pakistani applicant at the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Leeds on Tuesday.
Mohammed Zahoor Miran of Carness House, Fenwick Drive, Bradford, applied for a licence to run one coach between Bradford and London airport on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and on special occasions on Saturdays to meet planes from India and Pakistan.
Only Indian and Pakistani immigrants and their relatives would be carried on the service and the fare from London to Bradford would be 40s.
The chairman, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, said: "We will grant a short period licence for three months, and we hope that the Union of Pakistanis will make proper arrangements in London."
MT. Tremasi said "There are hundreds of cases in the Midlands and Yorkshire where immigrants have paid large sums to taxi drivers, as much as £80 in some cases. They arrive at London airport and they ask the taxi drivers to take them to the railway station. They are illiterate and they often show a taxi driver a piece of paper with the address on it. Then they are driven straight to their destination, in the Midlands or Yorkshire instead of the railway station."
Mr. W. R. Hargrave said the Yorkshire Pool Service companies regarded the application as "very special and exceptional ", and did not intend to oppose it, subject to the preservation of their rights in the future.