Dery Price Up
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A N increase in the price of its dery of 1:1. per gallon was announced on Wednesday by the Power Petroleum Co. Ltd.
Fuel Tax Dodging Alleged rAA BROUGHTON, Lincolnshire, coach operator, William Nainby Mamby, who runs services carrying workmen from Whitby (York) to the Fylingdales ballistic missile early warning station, appeared at Pickering magistrates court on Tuesday on eight charges of fraudulent evasion of the Customs and Excise Act, Mamby is alleged to have avoided paying £11,000 tax on 91,000 gallons of fuel oil. 1-1eis also charged . with impeding the search, for a motor Vehicle liable to be forfeited by •painting it a different 'colour.
Mr. Rupert Rawden-Smith, prosecuting,
• is asking fcr Mamby to be committed for trial at York Assizes and there are 68 witnesses to he called. He said that through puppet companies Mamby• operated a fleet of coaches from two garages at Broughton.
On May 24 last year checks were made On buses at Fylingdales and Broughton and analysis of fuel samples showed them to be between 25 and 100 per cent paraffin. There was evidence that Mamby had bought more than 91,000 gallons of duty free oil from 1955 onwards, went on Mr. Rawden-Smith,