DELAY RESPONSIBLE FOR GUILTY PLEA
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DtiRING the hearing of a case at Paisley Sheriff Court, last week, in which a bus proprietor was charged with failing to comply with time-table conditions in relation to public-service vehicles, Sheriff Hamilton criticized the Traffic Commissioners. It was pointed out that, in certain instances, the buses had been running late on a route where there were competing services.
Representing the bus proprietor, an agent tendered a plea of guilty, stating that he was not in a position to deny the allegations, because "intimation of the alleged offence was not received from the Traffic Commissioners until three weeks after the alleged offence had been committed. There had been similar delays, in such matters, in Ayrshire.
The Sheriff admonished respondent, stating that the Traffic Commissioners must understand that they should devise some better method of communication. He did not see why respondent, in this instance, might not have maintained a "not guilty" plea.