Seaweed is Waste, Court Tells Ministry
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AHAULIER who was fined last year for carrying seaweed outside the conditions of his B licence successfully appealed against the conviction when he appeared at Bath Quarter Sessions last week. The operator, Mr. Stanley Wilfred Russett, Bournemouth, was fined 10s. with £1 Is. costs on each of six summonses at Bournemouth (The Commercial Motor, October 31, 1958).
Mr. Russett pleaded not guilty, but the Ministry of Transport pointed out that he was licensed only. for agricultural produce, building materials and coal within 20 miles. In reply; Mr. Russett claimed 'that under the 1933 Act he was entitled to haul refuse—local authority work which was exempt from restriction.
The Ministry countered by saying that refuse was discarded material, not a natural product like seaweed.
At the appeal hearing, Mr. E. S. Fay,for Mr. Russett, said that if the prosecution were right rubbish could not be Collected from the foreshore by a haulier. Yet it followed that if fallen leaves could be shifted, so could seaweed.
Allowing the appeal, the deputy recorder, Mr. J. N. Hutchinson, said he was satisfied that seaweed was mixed up with rubbish strewn -on the beach. in this case, the seaweed was waste and worthless material which could well be included in the term." rubbish," although there might be all sorts of circumstatiees. when seaweed would fiat fall into this
category. .
M. Russett was allowed costs.
WORKS SERVICE WITH 12-SEATER ILLEGAL
THEoperation of an ilfegal works bus service with a 12-seater resulted in two men being fined at -Nuneaton last week. Richard. Anthony Edwards, Daldwell, admitted running the vehicle without a road service licence and public service vehicle licence and John Thomas James Stringer, Nuneaton, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting.
For the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, Mr. M. T. A. Matthews said a special police check was made on the 12-seater's work and passengers were seen to board the vehicle at various points early in the morning. When questioned, Edwards explained that he was working on hire to Stringer, who wanted workers taken to and from a Coventry factory.
Mr. G. C. Teebay, defending, stressed that both men had been open with the police because they genuinely believed they were operating within the law.
Edwards was fined £12, with £3 costs, and Stringer £10, with £2 7s. 6d. costs.
£60,000 ORDER FOR ALBIONS A£60,000 order for 24 under-floorcngined lightweight Albion bus chassis has been placed by the Ulster Transport Authority. They will be 30 ft. long Aberdonian models powered by 351-cu.-in. horizontal Leyland oil engines. It is understood that U.T.A. bodies will be fitted.