ALLEGED SHORTAGE OF VEHICLES DISPUTED.
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The Yorkshire Licensing Authority has refused to allow Messrs. Holiday's Garage, Pickering/ to acquire an extra A-licence vehicle. At the hearing (reported in The Comrnerciat Motor on November 27) Messrs. Holliday declared that there was such a shortage of vehicles that they had had to go to the L.N.E. Railway Co. for assistance.
Wandsworth Tectinical Institute Extension.
A fine and well-equipped new building has been added to the Wandsworth Technical Institute, Iligh Street, London, S.W.18, The. Institute was opened in September, 1895, for technical evening classes and as a secondary school. Last year the volume of work exceeded 750,000 student hours. The total frontage on the High Street is now 320 ft.; a wing 120 ft. tong projects south, and a return wing of 90 ft. westwards, forming a three-sided courtyard.
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is thp number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from December 11-19 inclusive:—Docks; King George V, 8; Royal Albert, 9; Royal Victoria, 3; Surrey Commercial, 6; East India, 1; West India, 1; South West India, 5; Tilbury, 9; Tilbury Stage, 3; Millwall, 6; Royal, 3; London, I. WHARVES: Hay's, 6; Middleton's, 1; Butler's, 3. Tilbury Jetty, 3. Regent's Canal, 7.
" C.M." Volumes Required.
Mr. W. W. Constantine, consulting engineer, 111, Grosvenor Road, London, S.W.I, wishes to obtain volumes 23-28 inclusive and 30 of The Commercial Motor. SCOTTISH PROSPECTING LICENCE TRANSFERRED.
The Board of Trade has granted a prospecting licence in Midlothian to the Anglo-American Oil Co,, Ltd. This licence was previously granted to Major C. A. Pogson and Mr. E. H. Cunningham-Craig, carrying on business as the Midlothian Petroleum Syndicate.
Subsidy System Increases Cattle Transport Demands.
A shortage of suitable road transport to enable farmers to get cattle to market in time to meet the demands of the new grading-for-subsidy system, was successfully .pleaded by Mr. E. 0. Gray, area secretary of A.R.O., when Messrs. J. H. M. Brown and Son, of Finedon, applied to the East Midland Licensing Authority, at Northampton, last week, for an additional A-licence vehicle.