Conductor Used Two Ticket Machines
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r-k A BUS conductor employed by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd.. was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Swansea Justices'.. Court after pleading guilty to stealing a ticket machine and embezzling money from his employers.
He was Kenneth Gregory, Williams, Broughton Avenue, Portmead, Swansea, who admitted stealing a ticket machine valued at £50 8s. and to two charges of embezzling sums of Ll 19s. 8d. and £221 65. 2d. received by him for the company.
Mr. John Barratt, prosecuting, said the machine was missed on October 14 last and found in Williams possession on February 5. In a statement, Williams said he picked up the machine thinking that it was his own, and it was not until later that he realized that he had two.
He then used the second machine on single journeys and left the way-bill blank in respect of the tickets. He added that he had used his official machine to issue tickets on the return trip and then spread the tickets issued to cover both the inward and outward journeys.
Williams, who had no previous convictions, told the justices that he had been sick for a total of two years and had fallen in arrears with hire-purchase payments.
HAULIER'S RECORD "PRETTY POOR"
" VOUR reputation as a haulier is I pretty poor," Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, last week told Mr. Lawrence Mather, Woodlands, Wood Bottom, Lower Hopton, near Mirfield. " Besides having been prosecuted for operating illegally, you have now removed your vehicle from the contract licence illegally," he added.
Mr. Mather had applied for a B licence, but Maj. Eastwood refused to grant the application in full. Mr. Mather said he had a vehicle on C licence and another on contract-A licence. The contract vehicle was engaged on seasonal work for building contractors, and he had removed it. from the licence some time ago.
He admitted having been prosecuted for earning £101 by illegally running a lorry and had had 10 charges taken into consideration. He was short of money at the time, he said, and had to find work. He had been trying out the lorry to discover whether it would take the load and had intended to apply for a licence.
£185,000 LOSS FOR LIVERPOOL? A LTHOUGH they expect a surplus in ri the current year (ending next month), Liverpool Passenger Transport Committee are budgeting for a loss of about £185,000 next year. Last year's wage awards to platform staff and craftsmen total £166,000 in a full year. In addition, the cost of fuel has risen by £19,000 a year. and traffic is declining.
Mr. W. M. Hall, general manager, says reductions in services or increases in fares will have to be considered.