"Rural Services Need Outside Help"
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AR. RUPERT SPEIR, M.P. for 1V1 Hexham, said at Bournemouth last week that it was "absolutely absurd" for the Government to support agriculture, to provide millions of pounds for di helping and subsidizing water, electricity, housing and other central services, and to leave rural transport to flounder.
"Many small operators in the rural areas are operating at a loss and cannot hold out much longer," he told delegates at the annual conference of the Rural District Councils Association.
"Adequate rural bus services cannot be provided except by some outside financial help. I think the countryside has been extremely patient. We have allowed the Government to play with this problem long enough.
"It is for the Government to make up its mind what should be done, and to act soon, for otherwise the rural transport system is inevitably going to deteriorate at a very rapid pace."
US. PRODUCTION DOWN
A TOTAL of 343,869 commercial ri vehicles were made in America during the first five months of this year, a 26.6 per cent decline from the corresponding period of 1960. Output of General Motors Corp., at 170,629 units, was down by almost one-third. Ford Motor Company's production, however, was not cut so drastically, being, at 142,565 units, about 15 per cent. down on last year.