£200 fines for weighbridge 'tip'
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DEWSBURY haulage contractors Johr Wilkinson, 57, of Cemetery Road, anc his son John Wilkinson, 29, of Fairtiek Crescent, pleaded guilty at Dewsbury las week to four counts of corruptly giving a tota of £10 to weighbridge men at a Mirfielc works. They were each fined £200 ant ordered to pay £5 5s. costs.
Two weighbridge clerks, Frederick Lup ton, 50, -of Peep Green Road, Hartshead Liversedge, and Richard Anthony Ellis, 21 of Lockwood Avenue, Mirfield, pleades guilty to two offences of curruptly acceptinl £2 as a reward. Lupton was fined £30 ant Ellis placed on probation for two years.
At the time, it was said, Wilkinson ant his son were in business dealing witl bagging and waste and Ellis and Lupton wen employed by John Cotton (Jute) Ltd. Huddersfield Road, Mirfield. The Wilkinson sold bagging to the firm. Because incorrec weights were entered on the tickets o bagging delivered, it was alleged, the Wilkin sons had received more money from flu firm than they should have done.
UNIMOGS FOR MoT FOLLOWING investigation by the recently appointed Winter Maintenance Committee, 2, Type 406 Mercedes-Benz Unimogs each equip pod with a Schmidt snow-cutter-blower, powereg by a separate 135 b.h.p. supercharged Mercede engine, have been ordered by the Ministry o Transport for lending to local authorities to hell keep highways clear of snow next winter.
£31nt Merseyside Plan: Mrs, Barbara Castli has approved an extension of the principal Mersey side roads programme starting in 1971. Tots estimated cost of the 14 schemes is about £31m