"Clannish" Village Refused Tours
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ESIDENTS of the Fife village of Kingskettle were described as "clannish," " parochial " and " independent " before the Scottish Licensing Authority, at Dundee, last week, when a local firm, Messrs. A. Robertson and Son, applied for the addition of several day tours to their licences.
W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., who objected, said they had picked up only four passengers at Kingskettle for similar tours this season. A witness said the residents wished to patronize a local concern. They did not like getting into a bus full of strangers.
Mr. T. Dougall, for British Railways, who also objected, said that when travelling by rail, people who did not like their fellow passengers could change their compartment.
Another spokesman for the railways, Mr. D. Brown, suggested that they should dismiss the aspect of clannishness, otherwise he saw no reason why every town, village or group of houses in Fife should not be provided with an extensive series of tours, to which they would be equally entitled if it were established as a criterion in granting licences.
Authorizing a tour to Fort William only during the trades holiday, the chairman said the new Road Traffic Act cleared up difficulties with private hire, and that might operate to the advantage of the applicants.
TWO OPPOSITE EXPERT OPINIONS WHEN a B-licensee was charged at VV Tenbury last week with failing to comply with licence conditions by operating a defective lorry, he contested the prosecution's evidence and the summons was dismissed. Mr. M. T. A. Matthews, for the West Midland Licensing Authority, alleged that a lorry owned by George E. T. H. Maund, 42 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells, the defendant, was used in an unroadworthy condition.
Maund said that he was a qualified automobile engineer with 40 years' experience. Mr. T. Barnes, an official vehicle examiner, enumerated alleged faults of the vehicle but Maund refuted them stoutly.
The chairman: "We have decided to dismiss this case, which depends on two completely different views of opinion, both expert, and we don't think there is sufficient evidence to convict."
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