Haulier's Rating Reduced on Appeal
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A SUCCESSFUL appeal against PA rating assessments was made by Messrs. J. A. Piekthall and Sons, Cleator Moor, Cumberland, to Cumberland Valuation Panel at Whitehaven last week. The panel reduced the gross value of the firm's garages and premises, which accommodate 16 vehicles, front £250 to £225, and the rateable value from £205 to £184.
it was submitted for the appellants that the property was reached by a cart track and was far away from local industry. For the valuation office it was stated that the buildings were in good condition and of substantial value. • "FISH IS NOT MARKET PRODUCE" TO call fish -" market produce" I. merely because it was sold at a market was ridiculous: the same rule might be applied to motorcars or anything else. Having regard to the way certain B-licence conditions were drawn up and construed, it was a miracle that they were ever enforced, said Mr. I H. E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, at Leeds last Friday, when he was told by Mr. R. A. Tucknott, Wakefield, who sought an additional vehicle on his B licence, that fish had been carried for 25 years on the licence under a "market produce" condition.
Mr. Tucknott told the Authority that he had two vehicles, one on B licence and another on contract-A. The concern who used the contract-A vehicle had now obtained their own transport, and his vehicle had been idle for three months. The work under the B licence was increasing and included newspaper deliveries, which were uneconomic with one vehicle.
After Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the British Transport Commission, had said that their • Objection would be withdrawn if the additional vehicle was restricted as to distance and conditions, Mr. Randolph granted the application, but said that Mr. Tucknott must apply to have a fish condition attached to the B licence, which would be published to give other hauliers a chance to abject.
TOURS APPEAL REJECTED
AN appeal against the Eastern Traffic Commissioners' grant of additional excursions and tours from Stowmarket to Mr. C. G. Robinson has been rejected, with costs, by the Minister of Transport. The appellant was Mr. W. J. Cooper,
ATLANTEANS FOR HALIFAX?
FOLLOWING their inspection of a Leyland Adantean 78-seat doubleclock bus, Halifax Transport Committee are expeCted to decide soon whether or not to give it a week's trial. The transport department plans to buy about 40 buses between 1958 and 1961, but the make has not vet been decided.