STATE-BACKED SCOTTISH TOURS PLAN OPPOSED
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ti result of these applications Would be exploitation of the Highlands." declared Mr. J. B. Bauchop, Inverness solicitor, at a sitting of the Scottish Licensing Authority, in Edinburgh, on December 11. He was opposing, on behalf of the Highland Transport Co., Ltd., applications by Northern Roadways, Ltd., Glasgow, to run At series of coach tours from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Strathpeffer, which the company would use as a base for subsidiary tours to such places as Culloden Moor battlefield and Loch Ness.
Tours would be run by a subsidiary company, Travel Trips, Ltd., and another subsidiary, Ben Wyvis Hotel, Ltd., would accommodate the tourists in Strathpeffer.
Mr. M. R. M'Larty. for Northern Roadways, Ltd., said that there were now existing in Strathpeffer "closed hotels, several houses unoccupied, and shops which are sometimes not opened." The application was supported not only by the inhabitants of Strathpeffer, but by the Government-sponsored Scottish Tourist Board, and he submitted that it should be granted.
Mr. Archibald Henderson, Scottish Licensing Authority, reserved his decision.