Bench Say. Seaweed is Nor. Rubbish
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IF seaweed is taken to h loeal authority's I tip and mixed with other.refuse there, can it he classed as general .refuse? . This question cropped.up at Bournennonth, on Tuesday, when a haulier, Stanley .Wilfred Russett, •Ensbury , Park, Bournemouth, faced six charges of using a, B-licence vehicle outside its conditions. .
. Mr. I. A. P. Bartlett, prosecuting, said the lorry was used to carry seaweed.' for payment, although thd lie-elite conditions specified agricultural -produce, building materials or coal.: Since -being visited by a traffic, inspector,' Russett had made a successful application to have seaweed added. to the conditiona. 1.
inspector,' Mr.' Leonard Thomas, . agreed with Mr. J. W. Miller, defending, that.the existing conditions did not matter when refuse was ,being removed at the direction of loCal authority'. He added that he would-not dispute seaweed being
classed as rubbish. • . Mr. Miller submitted that it definitely was rubbish and was treated as such by the .corporation. Therefore, there could be no breach ..of the licence conditions, The magistrates found-the case proved, however, and fined Russett 10s, in each case. -The fines .were increased'to a total of £9, with £12 12s. costs, after Russett had admitted six charges of illegally substituting an unlicensed vehicle for a B-licence lorry which was off -the road.
• NO STANDARD SOLUTIONS OF.
ROAD PROBLEMS A DDRESSING the third world meeting
1 of the International Road Federation in Mexico City this week,' the leader of the British delegation, Mr. Christopher Brunner, vice-chairman of the British Road Federation and a director of ShellMex and B.P., Ltd., said that standard solutions of the highway, problems of different countries were improbable.
Justification for new road schemes in developed countries was primarily economic; in under-developed territories it was likely to be social. The success of one urban motorway did not mean that a road of similar layout would be equally successful elsewhere. It was the task of national road associations to concern themselves with detail and at the same time to facilitate the international exchange of basic data with underdeveloped countries.
DRIVER DID NOT KNOW HIS EMPLOYER
ALORRY driver who, when stopped by a vehicle examiner, said he did not know the name of his employer, appeared before Lexden and Winstree magistrates at Colchester last week. He was Michael Henry Thomas Lees, Woodbury Street, London, S.W.17. Sentence on him was reserved until November 6, when the case against the owner of the vehicle he was driving is to be heard.
Ices was summoned for using a lorry with inefficient steering, a faulty front shackle pin and defective tyres, and for failing to keep records.