Sold Business, But He Wants to Come Back
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A REQUEST for the adjournment of •
an application by Mr. E. Jones, Llarnbedrog, for a new B licence was strongly opposed at Caernarvon jut week by an objector, Mr. P. Williams. Mr. J. Edward Jones, for the applicant, told the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. I. R. Lindsay, that be had sent Mr. Jones and his witnesses away because neither the evidence nor the figures were adequate.
Mr. Edward Jones added that in a remote area, telephones and letters, having regard to the language difficulty, were not always satisfactory. He would ask for the application to be re-listed in order that the case could be properly prepared..
Mr. Prichard Jones, objecting, said the applicant was not as naïve as was being made out. Mr. Jones had sold the haulage side of his business to Mr. Williams, and, there was an agreement prohibiting Mr. Jones from obtaining a licence. This was the third time he had made an application to come back since—without appearing—and they had the continual expense of attending. The application should be refused.
Granting the adjournment, Mr. Lindsay said it could do the objector no harm. It was a bona fide application which he could not resist..
SMALL HAULIERS FEAR COAL BY RAIL PLAN B.R.S. WITHDRAW OBJECTION TO
HUNDREDS of lorry drivers and their vehicles in the Sheffield and South Yorkshire areas may become redundant through the agreement between the Central Electricity Authority and the British Transport Commission for the carriage of coal from pits to power . Stations by rail.
This was stated last week by a spokesman of the South Yorkshire Area of the Road Haulage Association, who said the situation was "extremely serious" and might mean that many small hauliers would go out of business.
"We are making a strong protest to the B.T.C. and the electricity authorities," he said. The hauliers had not been consulted about the scheme and they wanted their side of the matter to be heard.
BASE CHANGE
AN objection by British Road Services was withdrawn at Leeds, last week, after they had heard the evidence of Mr. E E. Leighton, Fartown, Huddersfield, who wanted to change the base of a special A-licence vehicle and put it on public A licence.
Mr. P. Kenny, for the applicant, said that when the vehicle was acquired in 1955 Mr.. Leighton lived at Settle and worked for a Huddersfield clearing house. Now he had bought a house in Huddersfield and, although this was 30 miles away from Settle, there would be no change of work through the new base.
Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, granted the application.