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South East
A DEPUTY Licensing Authority has r-k been appointed for the South Eastern Traffic Area. He is Mr. Athelstan Cumming Shepherd, aged 66, and he will, when required, act as Deputy Chairman of the S.E. Traffic Commissioners as well as hearing goods cases. A solicitor since 1923, he served with the Port of London Authority and at Birkenhead before becoming town clerk of Mansfield, Notts, in 1931, where he remained until his retirement last year.
Mr. Shepherd made his first appearance in his new post on Tuesday at Brighton, when a Rye haulage company, recently formed to take care of the transport commitments of its parent company, successfully applied to convert two C-licence vehicles into vehicles operating under a new A licence.
Mr. A. B. Baker, a director of the applicant company, F. A. Bakers Transport (Rye), Ltd., said that the vehicles would take over the work of the C vehicles and would transport livestock .already carried for neighbouring farmers by F. A. Baker Ltd., who were farmers and turf merchants. After hearing seven supporting witnesses, Mr. H. H, SebagMontefiore for the British Transport Commission, conceded that the applicants had made out some case, but not for the full amount of two vehicles.
The Deputy Licensing Authority said that he considered that it was the objectors who had not made out a case and accordingly granted the application.