'Unlawful Gains' says LA: Inquiry Soon
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1"HE Eastern deputy LA has refused
both applications by G. Jarrett Ltd. heard at a four-day public inquiry at Norwich (The Commercial Motor, June 4 and September 24). The applications were for a new A licence for 15 vehicles, nine to be acquired, with a base at Norwich, and to add two small vans, with a base at Sheringham.
In his written decision, Mr. Gazdar concluded, inter alio, that evidence which should have been forthcoming had not been forthcoming; that to avoid applying for additional vehicles, Jarrett had employed Norfolk and District Films Transport Ltd. to do removal work and to carry furniture; that Norfolk and District Films Transport Ltd. "had been engaged to a considerable extent in unlawful haulage ", and that the application(s) had "been worded in such a way as to cause people who might have objected not to object."
"In so far as Mr. Watling and Mr. Snelling are concerned," wrote Mr. Gazdar, "the former has spent a good deal of his life in the transport industry and the latter has been a transport manager for about 16 years, yet each denied, in effect, that between 1962 and 1964 he had any knowledge of the licensing position of one of the corn
panies under their control. . . ." He continues: "I am satisfied that all that the applicant company is seeking to do „ . is to consolidate the unlawful gains which, through its instrumentality, have been acquired by Norfolk and District Films Transport Ltd., and I refuse both applications."
Because of differences in the figures produced on behalf of Norfolk and District Films Transport Ltd. for the year ended March 31, 1964 and figures produced for the same period on October 16, and despite warnings given concerning illegal haulage, Mr. Gazdar proposes "to hold a Public Inquiry with a view to revoking, suspending or curtailing its licences on the grounds laid down in Section 178(1) (a) and (d) of the Road Traffic Act, 1960 and I invite the Company to produce at that Inquiry its books of account relating to the period 1st April, 1963 to 30th September, 1965."
Fares Appeal A PPLICATIONS by six South Wales
bus companies, which resulted in fares increases amounting to £500,000, should be re-heard by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners, it was suggested at a two-day public inquiry in Cardiff last week. The hearing was closed on Wednesday by the inspector, Mr. G. M. Williams, who will make his findings known to the Minister of Transport.