THE SMOKE NUISANCE.
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ADM1r1ING that, certain magisterial decisions were in conflict on the prosecution of drivers cf steam wagons emitting quantities of dense smoke, the deputy town clerk of. Bootle told the local bench that, while hundreds of motor wagons passed through Bootle _ each week without the emission of smoke to the amount of nuisance, others caused discomfort aid damage to shopkespers, due either to the carelessness of drivers or some other cause. 1-le quoted the recent decisions in other courts, where D42 consideration had been given to the plea of "temporary or accidental causes, or that of having as far as practicable consumed their own smoke."
Speaking in the defence of two drivers who were summoned, Mr. Arthur Dean asked the court to await the result of an appeal that was pending at the Liverpool County Sessions. Motor wagon owners were carrying on The inland transport trade of the country under very difficult conditions, and the wagon owners carried on -with the best fuel available.
A representative of the Atkinson Wagon Co. said he had never known one of their engines to emit smoke in the quantifier,' spoken of by the police constable. The driver of this wagon was usino. Welsh smokeless coal, and. with Welsh coal or coke the Atkinson wagon izlid not cause any nuisance with offensive smoke.
The Bench, while expressing sympathy with the owners and drivers of the two wagons (Sentinel and Atkinson) imposed a fine of 29s.