Licensing Authority " Prejudiced "
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A CONTENTION that the Northern In. Licensing Authority had not acted impartially, was made by Mr. I. L. R. Croft, representing the Railway Executive, when the Executive appealed at Darlington, last week, 'against the grant of a licence to Mr. F. Scott to run coaches from Darlington to Blackpool during the holiday period.
Mr. Croft said that a special train ran each Saturday from mid-June until the last week in August. Towards the end of the season it had fewer passengers and the Executive relied on peak periods to justify the expense of running the train. Mr. E. H. R. Freeman, for Mr. Scott, said that the Authority had to see that the public need was catered for, and not to "ship everybody on to a train."
MEAT MARKETING SCHEME?
THE stiggestion that a meat marketing scheme, based on the organization of the Milk Marketing Board, would be developed, was made at a dinner in Wolverhampton, last week, by Mr. E. W. Watts, former national chairman of the Road Haulage Association's livestock functional group. He was outlining the growth of the transport system for handling Ministry livestock.
Mr. Watts referred to the value oi
the livestock rates schedule prepared by Mr. H. Scott Hall (costs consultant of "The Commercial Motor "), and to the work of Mr. P. J. R. Tapp, chairman of the Meat Transport Organization, Ltd.
Mr. Stephen Peers, the present national chairman, made presentation to Mr. Watts. The dinner was organized by the West Midland group.