Ex-haulier Manages Wife's Business
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AN application, in which it was mentioned that a husband, precluded.by an agreement from entering the haulage business in that district, had become manager of a business taken over, by his wife, was heard before Mr. Henry Riches, Northern Scotland Licensing Authority, last week.
Mrs. Margaret Barcley, 31, Maryfield Crescent, Leslie, Fife, and Mrs. Annie Barcley, Cabbage Hall, Leslie, trading as Messrs. Johnston's Transport, applied for a Contract A licence and an A licence in respect of two vehicles, for which Mrs. Jessie Johnston, 3, Union Street, Kelty, had obtained licences in March, 1935. The application was opposed by Messrs. William Forrester and Sons, Lochgelly, and the L.N.E. Railway Co.
Mr. J. W. Laverock, for the applicants, stated that the application related to the transfer and acquisition of the business formerly carried on under the name of Messrs. Johnston's Transport, with its base at Kelly. Mrs. Margaret Barcley said that her sister-in-law and she were partners in the business. They were to carry on the business with the aid of her husband, Mr. Alex. Barcley, who had had a. vehicle about 18 months earlier. He had sold it to Mr. Young, of Kelly.
Mr. Riches produceda copy of a contract which, he said, had been submitted when Mr. Alex, Barcley had been refused a licence in March, 1935. From this agreement, Mr. Riches found that this woman's husband and his brother contracted that they would not enter into a haulage business in opposition to Mr. A. A. Young for five years.
Mr. Riches found that the application was not one which he could grant undee Section 11 (3) (b) of the 1933 Act. but it was also rightly advertised as one for discretionary tonnage, and he was prepared to hear it as such, Mr. Laverock withdrew the application and said that he would proceed again with a fresh one. A short-term licence was granted.