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B-licensees' Applications

13th November 1936, Page 115
13th November 1936
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Page 115, 13th November 1936 — B-licensees' Applications
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A PPLICA.I■ITS have great difficulty

in stating precisely the goods carried, said Mr. J. Lustgarten, quoting a report by Mr. Glees= Robinson, before Sir William Hart, Deputy Licensing Authority for the North-Western Area, at Chester, on Monday.

Messrs. DiXons (Scholar Green) asked that their B licence for six vehicles to carry coal within 30 miles, and bricks and timber within 80 miles, should be varied by the addition of 24 other items, together with the use of the vehicles on building sites and farms, all within 60 miles of base.

Mr. Lustgarten, for the applicants, said that they had. been coal dealers and hauliers for eight years, and the materials set out in the application had been carried in the basic year. They had been unlucky in their previous applications; perhaps through lack of understanding. Citing the Gerrard appeal, he submitted that the Authority ought to, and could, exercise his discretion in giving them what would have been theirs had they understood their position in the first instance. Omissions from the original application were due to his not understanding the position, said Mr. H. W. Gray, applicants' manager. The small space on the form had resulted in the list of commodities being curtailed. The firm wished to carry on business as in the basic year.

Road and Water Combine, Mr. P. J. Massey, secretary of the Mersey, Weaver and Ship Canal Carriers, replying to Mr. V. Shepherd (for the Canal Carriers) outlined the barge services from the port at Weston Point to the Potteries. Clay was carried by this means to the Potteries, where it was stored until required, when it was delivered, if necessary, by road vehicles.

A three-month stoppage of the Potteries canal system took place in 1934, as the result of drought. Goods were carried to Northwich for transport by road from there. It was entirely due to shortage of water.

Asking the Deputy Licensing Authority to refuse the additional commodities, Mr. G, H, P. Beames (for the


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