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L.M.S. OBJECTION CLAIMED ILLEGAL.
A submission that an objection by the L.M.S. Railway Co. should be ruled out because it did not comply with the Goods Vehicles (Licences and Prohibitions) Regulations, 1936, was made by Mr. F. G. Bibbings, secretary of A.R.O. Yorkshire Area, before the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. Willoughby Bullock), at Leeds, last Friday.
Mr. Bibbings based his submission on Regulation 10, which requires that every objection shall be in writing, signed by the person making it. He stated that in the notice lodged on behalf of the L.M.S., the name of the person entering the objection, a railway solicitor, appeared in typewriting, but the notice was not signed and had merely been initialled. by some person other than the solicitor in question.
Mr. Bibbings submitted that as the regulation had not been complied with, the railway had no locus standi as an objector. The Authority bad, therefore, no discretionary power to bear the objection.
Mr. Bibbings attached considerable importance to the principle involved, because he claimed that if the railway companies could lodge their objections in such a manner, it was equally corn-. petent for an association's official or any person to sign or initial an objection form on behalf of a road operator.
The Authority said that he would exercise his discretion and bear the objector.
It is understood that the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O. is to take steps with a view to securing a general ruling on this point from the Licensing Authority.
Stabilizing Removal Rates. The recently formed Yorkshire Furniture Removers Association is to prepare detailed schedules of rates for furniture removals, which will be submitted to the Licensing Authority, as the recognized fair rates for removals by Yorkshire operators.
Agreed Wages Must Be Paid. Operators who do not pay the agreed wages may find the outlook black when they apply for the Tenewal of their licences. This warning was given by Mr. Robert Barr, chairman of A.R.O. Yorkshire Area, at a meeting of the Association's Huddersfield Sub-area. He added that more evidence than some persons might think was being collated in this connection.
C.M.U.A. Views on Compulsory Insurance.
Invited by the Board of Trade Committee of Compulsory Insurance, the C.M.U.A. recently gave evidence before that committee on the subject of cOmpulsory insurance in relation to changes in the law to secure that such insur ance shall not fail. .
The Association's memorandum disduesed such contingencies as the in