Objectors may air grievances
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• Because absent objectors to a take-over application were small hauliers living many miles away, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern LA. adjourned part of it in Darlington last week so that their grievances regarding rate-cutting allegations could be heard.
Northern Land Contractors Ltd., a subsidiary of Northern Securities Ltd., was applying under Section 180 to amalgamate licences held by 19 recently acquired companies relating to 73 Aand 150 B-licensed vehicles. Three objectors from Penrith had alleged that one company, A. Corbett and Sons (Wearhead) Ltd., had engaged in rate-cutting, said Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw for the applicant.
Corbett had been hauling sand to the west coast and, as a sub-contractor to F. Brown (Thursby) Ltd., had brought gypsum into Eastgate as return loads, receiving 15s 8d per ton. This arrangement had ceased and Corbett then became principal contractor with a rate of 16s 3d a ton. "There was no rate-cutting," contended Mr. Campbell Wardlaw.
The LA granted the application regarding all but Corbett's vehicles and said he would arrange a hearing in his western area to 'give the objectors an opportunity to air their grievances.