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New Form of Objection Proposed

24th January 1936
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Page 31, 24th January 1936 — New Form of Objection Proposed
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

APROTEST against the railway companies " fishing expeditions" was voiced by Mr. L. W. A. White, on behalf of road-transport organizations. at a sitting of Mr, J. H. Stink, East Midland Licensing Authority, at Leicester, this week.

Mr. White referred to railway objections to B-licence renewals. The LN.E. Railway Co. had, for some time, been carrying out, to a certain extent, the terms of its undertaking to state the grounds of objections, but the Railway Co. had done little in that direction. The latter company had now started, in some measure, to give an idea of the issue to be raised, but still the steps taken did not meet the point.

The railways, in their objections, said that attention would be directed to the class • of goods carried and the radii in which they were transported. To him it seemed that they said: "We are ping on a fishing expedition to find out what the applicant is carrying and where he is carrying it to." He hoped Mr. Stirk might raise the matter " in another place."

Mr. Stirk pointed out that a confer ence of the Licensing Authorities had recently been held in London with regard to the matter, but added that the objection was statutory and was designed to prevent frivolous opposition from being entered. A new form to be attached to the statutory grounds of objection had been considered by the Licensing Authorities, which stated that " attention would be directed particularly " to certain points.

If the grounds of objection were specifically mentioned and were not upheld, the railway companies would have no power to oppose an application where some new facts hail arisen during the hearing of an application, on which there might be good grounds for objecting.

Mr. C. L. Hodgson, representing the railway companies, stated that he was chairman of the legal committee of the Railway Companies Association, and this matter had come before it. There had been several forms of objection considered and the committee was in favour of that to which Mr. Stink had referred, stating that" attention would be directed particularly " to certain aspects of the case,


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