Punishment need not fit crime, says LA
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• While considering a case under Sectiol 69 in Plymouth on Tuesday the Westeri LA, Mr J. R. C. Samuel Gibbon, referred t(
a report in the technical press in which, h, said, he and his fellow LAs were accused o "feather dustering" operators called befori the Traffic Courts under Section 69. But s, far as punishments were concerned, he saic it did not necessarily follow that punishment must always be seen to fit th crime.
The LA was dealing with the case of th, Cornish Sign and Manufacturing Co Ltd, o Liskeard, whose licence for two vehicles an( two trailers was being considered because o several convictions for drivers' hours an( records offences.
Mr Geoffrey Jones, appearing for thi operator, said that the executive staff of thi company had not been properly aware o the conditions governing drivers' hours an records but that this had now been rectifie( and evidence was produced to the court o. all the drivers' records since a conviction ir January this year.
After hearing evidence from th( managing director, Mr F. J. Daniels, anc the company secretary, the LA said he fell the punishment would be met by th( curtailment of one vehicle from the licenc( for a four-week period.