Should B-Licensee Work for A-Licensee?
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QITTING at York, last week, the Appeal Tribunal remitted to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority for rehearing a case in which the issue was raised as to whether a Licensing Authority has power to authorize a B-licence holder to carry goods, without any limitation of area of operation, for an A-licensee,
The L.N.E. Railway Co.. appealed against that part* of a decision by the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority which authorized J. H. Turnbull and Sons (Leeds), Ltd., to carry "fish and goods for J. H. Turnbull and.Sons, of North Shields, as required."
Mr. B. de H. Pereira, for the railway company, said that Mr. Thomas Turnbull was a partner in the North Shields firm and a director of the Leeds com
pany, and the two businesses could be viewed, for-practical purposes, as one.
He submitted that in Section 2' (3) of the 1933 Act the words " carriage of goods for hire and reward " .did not mean the carriage of goodi for a public carrier. To attach a condition alloWing the transport. of general goods anywhere for an A-licenee holder iiras,
he contended, improper.. • Mr. W. R. Hargrave, for the respondents, said that this point had not' been raised it the hearing Of the application or in the notice of appeal.
After the Tribunal NO retired to consider the point, the chairman (Mr. Rowand Harker', ICC.) said that the members were of opinion.that the isiue 'should have been specified in the grounds of appeal.