Must Spreader Show Lights ?
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IS an asphalt spreader, which can proI ceed under its own power only when laying a road surface, a vehicle upon which lights should be displayed during the hours of darkness? This question was posed to Burnley magistrates last week when Sidney Milner, of Leeds, was prosecuted. Proceedings arose after a motorcyclist collided with a stationary spreader which had no lights. Defendant said that he was employed by a Leeds company.
The machine had been hired to a concern which, in turn, had hired it to Burnley Corporation.
When he started work in Burnley, he asked the foreman about lamps for the machine at night, and was told to leave it under a road lamp. Mr. J. Backhouse, defending, said that the magistrates had to consider whether the spreader was a vehicle. If it was moved, it had to be transported. As the work was being done by Burnley Corporation, it was their responsibility to put lights on the spreader.
Milner was fined £1 plus El 9s. 6d. costs.
HAULIERS REFUSE TO PAY NEW TAX
ik ANY interstate hauliers are refusing IVI to pay a South Australian tax of 1d. a mile per ton which has been introduced .by State Governments since the Privy Council ruled that previous taxes were invalid under Section 92 of the Australian Constitution. This prohibits restrictions on the conduct of trade between States. Since the ruling, interstate operators have been carrying an increasing volume of traffic, and the State Governments claim that they should contribute towards the upkeep of the highways. The president of the Interstate Road Transport Association of South Atistralia says that operators consider thc new tax unreasonable.