London, Feb. 14.
An assurance that the British Government would not use the control of railways to impose higher charges on the public was given Capt. Euan Wallace, Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons yesterday. Charges would only rise, he said, if necessity ated by increased wages, prices and materials, or from difficulties due to war conditions. Such increases, in any case, would have to be justified to Parliament.
Capt. Wallace was answering opposition criticism over the Government's agreement reached with railway companies on February 7.
The main provisions of the agreement were that the receipts and expenses of the controlled undertakings should be pooled, and out of the pool, would.be paid annual sums equivalent, in the case of ordinary companies, to the average of their net revenues for three years beginning from 1935, and in the case of the London Passenger Transport Board, to its net revenue for the year ended
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