East Riding Livestock Case Continues
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ALTHOUGH two days were allotted by the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority last week to the hearing of the block application by 31 East Riding livestock carriers •for extended radius, proceedings were again adjourned until an unspecified date. Earlier hearings were reported in The Commercial Motor on November 5 and November 19.
Further evidence about the alleged inadequacy of haulage facilities was given by Mr. R. E. Lilley, of Eastrington. He said that before the war there were nine hauliers within eight miles of him, but there was now only one. North of the Humber there were only three hauliers as well as himself.
Mr. J. S. Ringrose, of Foxholes, said that cattle were being sold for higher prices at Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield than at Driffield or Hull, which was why farmers wanted to send their animals there. He did not think it was fair that he should be prevented from carrying for farmers whom he had served all his life.
'If we are not allowed to take stock to the West Riding, we shall take it to local markets where dealers will buy it for resale elsewhere," Mr. Ringrose told the Authority.
Mr. T. P. Atkinson, for the British Transport Commission, said to Mr. Ringrose: "You don't think it is fair that you should be cut off ? You are all frightened that you won't have enough work next year ? If all the applications are granted, the hauliers will all he wanting to do the longdistance work, won't they ? "
Mr. Ringrosc: "They will want to carry for their own customers,"