Radius Cut: New Hearing
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'TER hearing an appeal by Mr. S. W. Gosling, of Gomersal, near ford, against the decision of the :shire . Licensing Authority to ce the radius on one of his B ces from 60 miles to 20 miles, the sport [Appeal] Tribunal in Lonon Tuesday, remitted the case to kuthority for further consideration.
t the previous 13 licence, the coons were: Industrial coal within a is of 20 miles; building materials n 25 miles; potatoes within 60 .; mill goods within 60 miles.
len Mr. Gosling was asked by the [sing Authority for a definition of 1 goods," he gave a list of 56 items. Authority reduced the definition of I goods" on the B licence to: , cotton, cloth, bobbins, empty , warps, skeps and. rags, and sed a radius of 20 miles.
appellant did not complain of estricted list, but objected to the tion of radius. This would make stop carrying wool between Hull .,iverpool and Bradford.
. A. Goss, for Mr. Gosling, subI that it was inconvenient for a ord company if it had to contact it depot of British Road Services utward trips. and the port depot tward trips. The appellant would
be able to arrange both outward and inward journeys at the same time.
For the respondents (British Transport Commission), Mr. C. R. Beddington said that it would be impossible to interfere with the discretion exercisedby the Licensing Authority. There was little concrete evidence. The Tribunal was being asked, as the Authority had been, to exercise imagination.
The applicant, who had been conducting his own case, was lucky to have been granted a licence at all. Mr. Beddington submitted that Mr. Gosling was in no position to cornulain of any restriction imposed by the Licensing Authority.
Mr. Hubert Hull, president, said that it did not seem to the Tribunal that the question of radius was sufficiently explored at the Authority's hearing.
Mr. Hull continued: "We have no doubt this was in part attributable to the fact that Mr. Gosling was conduct., ing his own case. We think it was also attributable to the fact that there was being tonducted at the 'same time the application for variation of an A licence and a condition that Mr. Gosling should reduce ambiguous definitions under which he was entitled to carry something called "mill goods."