Illegal Carriage to Settle Debt
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ALORRY owner who carried goods for a concern to discharge a debt with them was still plying for hire or reward. This was submitted by Mr. J. A. P. Bartlett, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport, at Christchurch, Hants, magistrates' court on Monday.
Roy Bernard Pulsford, Dairy House, Staplecross, near Christchurch, was fined £1 on each of five charges of using his lorry for the carriage of goods without a goods vehicle licence. He was ordered to pay £5 5s. costs.
Mr. Bartlett quoted Pulsford as saying, "I didn't realize it was illegal. I owed them some money, and I didn't know how else 1 could work it off." Pulsford was alleged to have said that the sand and gravel concern for whom he carried filling material on four of the five occasions mentioned in the summonses, deducted the amount he earned from a debt. He still owed them money.
Mr. Bartlett said that Pulsford had a short-term C licence in respect of his own goods.
Pleading guilty, Pulsford told the court he was sorry for what had happened. The company for whom he carried did not know that he did not have a B licence, but he had now applied for one.