Case "Riddled with Illegalities"
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WHEN Mr. I. Greenwood applied to YV the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority last week for a B licence to carry agricultural produce within 25 miles of Heptonstall, near Halifax, Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the railways, submitted that the whole case was riddled with illegalities.
The applicant said that he had agreed to buy a business and vehicle from a Mr. Bewglass and had paid him £150. Since then Mr. Bewglass had disappeared. Therefore a new licence had been applied for.
Mr. Atkinson said that Mr. Bewglass had never held the licence, the holder c6 being a man called Stansfield. Although the licence had expired at the end of August last, Bewglass had operated the vehicle illegally until the end of the year. Since then, contended Mr. Atkinson, the applicant appeared to have carried on the work Without a licence, thinking that this was not illegal unless he went on to a main road.
The Authority thought that it was a pity that Mr. Greenwood had not taken legal advice before parting with his £150. He granted a licence for work within a five-mile radius to "try to save something out of the wreckage" for the applicant.