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Grant For Continental Fish Traffic

12th November 1965
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

AT a public inquiry at Morpeth. .1—V Northumberland, on Monday a northern wholesale fish firm was said to have a large quantity of frozen fish in storage on the Contingnt when it should have been in England.

Rutherford Continental Transport Ltd. were applying for a variation of their present A licence, which is for five refrigerated vehicles. The company requested an extension to include three more refrigerated vehicles and an articulated tractor. The tractor was already in the possession of the company but a full licence had not been granted for it. A variation was granted to allow two additional vehicles and one tractor.

• Mr. T. FL Campbell Wardlaw, representing the applicants, said the vehicles were away for a week to 10 days at a time on the Continent transporting their cargoes of fish and meat and demands were very much in excess of availability. The transport route covered Marseille, London and Grimsby to Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mr. Wardiaw told the deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. H. Bewick, that Rutherford Bros. Ltd., fish wholesalers of North Shields and an associate company of the applicants, had 1,000 tons of fish in cold storage at Bremerhaven because they could not get it transported. "This is all fish that should have been in this country now," said Mr. Warcilaw.

Several witnesses, including Mr. E. J. Voss. managing director of Dutch Anglo Transport, Rutherford's forwarding agent in Holland, were present to back the company's request but were not called upon to provide evidence.

Mr. K. Shuttieworth, representing British Railways, who objected to the application, said that on their. behalf he modified the objection to only the tractor,


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