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4A LTHOUGH some people did not IA like the service provided by the Road Haulage Executive, if the vehicles were available, they would have to be used.
Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy licensing Authority, made this statement at a sitting at Dundee last week. If the R.H.E. were prepared to give customers a service, he would not authorize additional vehicles if Stateowned lorries were to be idle.
Mr. R. Adam, of Dundee, was granted an additional B-licensed vehicle.
Mr. W. Oliphant, of Cupar, applied for a licence to run two lorries. His former undertaking had been acquired, but tradesmen had asked him to recommence business. His prices would, he said, be 5s. 6d. per ton in Cupar and 7s. 6d. in the country, plus " dirty " money.
Mr. D. Younger, managing director of a Dundee concern of coal merchants, said that it had become impossible to
deal with the R.HLE. because of its rates, which were lls, a ton in the town and 15s. in the country.
The applicant was granted a licence for one vehicle with a radius restriction of 10 miles.
During another case, Mr. Robertson said that he was glad to hear from Mt. W. H. Ewen, R.H.E., Tay group manager, that the Executive was willing to undertake work for the "small man."
R.H.E. DEPOT HANDS JAILED FOR THEFT
WHEN 12 employees of the Road W Haulage Executive were charged at Old Street, London, last week, in connection with the disappearance of export goods from the R.H.E. depot in Goswell Road, London, Mr. F. Milton, prosecuting, alleged that one of the men said when arrested: "They are all at it and either you are in with the rest or out of a job."
Another was said to have told the police: "1 have only been there three weeks and I had to muck in with the others or be pushed out."
Five porters, two loaders and two checkers received sentences for theft ranging between six months' and one month's imprisonment. A checker and an assistant foreman were imprisoned for receiving, and a checker fined for receiving.