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■ IAGEMENT, drivers, fit, cleaners and all coned with the efficient run of Newport (Gwent) bus ertaking were warmly sed by the South Wales fic Commissioners when :ouncil applied to increase at rate fare.
ane -al manager G. W. Lham told the commisers that if the lp increase le present flat fare of lip on the majority of routes was granted, the undertaking would break even in the current year without any subsidy from either Newport Borough Council General Rate Fund or Gwent County Council. "It will be totally self-sufficient, a situation we have been aiming at for some time," he said.
It was stated that during the past year it had been able to improve the vehicle turn-out position and had actually reduced the size of its fleet from 107 to 101 vehicles. In the past twelve months it had operated more than 99.6 per cent of scheduled mileage, said Mr Cottham. Chairman of the Commissioners Ronald Jackson granted the application as applied for.