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• DC Furber Partners' bid for a licence has been adjourned until September by South Wales Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh, sitting with a DOT financial assessor.
The firm, of Herigoed, Mid Glamorgan which has been operating under interim authority since March, was seeking a new national licence for five vehicles.
Partner Douglas Furber said that a previous company, DC Furber & Sons had gone into liquidation in 1990 when the Inland Revenue demanded full and final settlement of tax and National Insurance dating back to the 1984/85 miners' strike.
Questioned by the financial assessor, Furber said the amount owed to the Revenue had been reduced from £27,000 to around £8,000. However, following the death of the person dealing with the matter, the person who took over demanded full settlement and that would have been a financial disaster.
Furber said he, his four brothers and father had been in business since 1971. During the miners' strike they had kept their vehicles and drivers going, and the only debt they had been unable to meet was that to the Inland Revenue.
Adjourning the proceedings, Mervyn Pugh said there were still a few problems and "a few holes to fill."