Agreement Before Hearing
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IN four applications for excursion and I. tour licences before the Western Licensing Authority, at Salisbury, last Week, agreement was reached by the applicants and objectors shortly before the hearing began. The Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, said it was a pity that this had not been done before, as a great . deal of expense and time would have been saved all round.
Mr. P. E. G. Mather, for the applicants, Shergold and White, Ltd., said he had reached agreement with the objectors, Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd„ only 20 minutes before the hearing.
Mr. A. C. F. Wyndeatt, for Wilts and Dorset, did not regard his attendance as a waste of time, for it had enabled the two companies to lay down a principle that they would get together whenever possible. Before, there had been a long period of applications and objections between the two parties.
He wanted to make it clear, however, that Wilts and Dorset claimed the right to tours within a radius of five miles of Salisbury, and that they were the accepted operators for the area. According to their licence, they were entitled to pick up along their routes and take people to the bus station to start their excursions and tours. Any attempt to trespass on that area would be strongly resisted.
Mr. Mather pointed out that the two routes running into St. Thomas' Bridge should be regarded as• much Sher-. gold and White's territory as that of Wilts and Dorset. Mr. Shergold's father started a carrier's business in that area to which was later added the carriage of passengers through Ford. Because of the introduction of doubledeck vehicles, which would not pass under the bridge, that route had had to be abandoned, and instead there were picking-up points at the bridge.
MUD ON WHEELS COST 10s.
AMAN was fined 10s. at Bridlington last week for failing to remove mud from the wheels of his lorry on the highway. He was prosecuted under a 1953 by-law of East Riding County Council.