New Rationing Arrangements
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THE Minister of Power has made an I Order which gives effect to the announcement, made on February 20. that car owners and goods and public service vehicle operators may use throughout April coupons issued for the current rationing period. The Order (the Motor Fuel Order, 1957) relates to basic ration and supplementary coupons issued for private motor vehicles (including hire cars) and taxicabs, and to X and Y coupons issued to goods' and public service vehicle operators.
The Order also prescribes April 17 as the date on which motorists may start to use coupons from the new basic ration books available as from Monday last. Each book contains coupons for six months, but only the coupons for the first four months will be valid from April 17. Any of the valid coupons in the new hook can be used at any time during the second rationing period from April 17-August 16. The fifth. and six months; coupons will be held in reserve.
All other coupons Issued for the second rationing period will bear a date of expiry (stamped or printed) and will be valid as soon as they are issued until their date of expiry.
The Order also authorizes the use of fuel acquired against coupons issued for a particular vehicle in another vehicle of the same class or description, provided the vehicles concerned are registered in the same name. This enables holders of block allowances to " pool " the basic rations of all cars registered in their name.
SHEEP SHOULD HAVE BEEN COVERED
A LTHOUGH a veterinary surgeon f. and another expert told the court that sheep in full wool needed no covering when being carried in a lorry, Bedale magistrates last week fined a haulier £5, with El 16s. 7d. costs, for failing to provide such cover when carrying sheep in a lorry during rain and a gale.
A policeman who stopped the lorry at Catterick stated that there Were 36 sheep on the bottom deck, 36 on the second and nine on the top. There was no covering for them. The haulier, Raymond Wilson Holiday, Penrith, said that he did' not consider a cover to be necessary unless clipped sheep or spring lambs were being carried.
Mr. James Baird, a veterinary surgeon, said that sheep in full wool needed no covering when carried in a lorry, and in his view they would be better without. Mr. J. Mallinson, a member of the livestock functional group of the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association, also said that stock did not need a protective covering. Sheep carried on a top deck always arrived in better condition than others,
The driver of the vehicle was discharged on payment of costs.