£100 Fines After False Claim
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AFTER pleading guilty to charges of making false statements in connection -1-1with a B-licence application, wrongfully using an identity certificate and using an unlicensed vehicle for hire or reward, Edward Starkey, haulier, Church Road, Bingley, and Airdale Canal Services, Ltd., coal and builders' merchants and canal carriers, also of Bingley, were jointly fined a total of £100. Mr, R. Cleworth, Q.C., Leeds stipendiary magistrate, also made an order for £21 costs
Prosecuting for the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr. E. Wurzel said that in July, 1958, Starkey was asked by Mr, Sydney Glover, a director of Airdale Canal Services, to take Shares in the company. He declined, but agreed to buy a B-licence vehicle for £400 and the 1.icenee for an additional £400. He had since used the vehicle for his own haulage, but no application had been made by either party to the Licensing Authority.
When a renewal form was sent to the company in February, 1959, it was completed by a company clerk and signed by Mr. Glover. Starkey paid the fee. The application was completely false, as the vehicle had not been in the company's possession since the previous July. The identity certificate, when issued, was handed to Starkey.
A haulier of many years' standing, Starkey did 95 per cent, of the work of James Glover, Ltd., coal merchants. Bingley, who were a subsidiary of Airdale Canal Services, said Mr. J. P. Knight, for the defendants. The vehicle continued to do the same work after Starkey had bought it, but he was advised against applying for-a take: over, as the log sheet showed excessive driving hours. He was recommended to run the vehicle under the Airdale name until correct log sheets could be produced for the Licensing Authority, There had been no intention to deceive and no pecuniary benefits, claimed Mr. Knight.
Starkey had taken this step because he did not wish to get the driver into trouble. He thought that the renewal form had been sent to Airdale by mistake, and that Mr. Glover had signed it because he (Starkey) might still have been thinking of a directorship.
For making a statement with intent to deceive, the company were fined £20 and £10 10s. costs. For aiding and abetting, Starkey was fined £15 and £10 10s. costs. For using an unauthorized identity certificate Starkey was fined £10. On 10 summonses for using the vehicle unlicensed he was fined a total of £35, and the company, for aiding and abetting,