Mr. Hanlon Criticizes Completion of Forms
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TWO applicants were criticized by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Carlisle last week for the manner in which their application forms for licences had been completed.
• H. and T. Haulage, Ltd., Stainton. Penrith, sought an A licence for a vehicle to carry lime, plaster and timber on outward journeys and return loads as required. Noting that, in place of a general description of normal user, the application form listed all the loads carried, the Authority told Mr. N. Hetherington. partner in the company:
" You have just signed some form and got some clerk to fill it up with all the places you have been to. These matters are assuming greater and greater importance now, and you can't just shelve your responsibilities and hand over the completion of these applications to a clerk."
Mr. Hetherington said that the form had been typed out for him by the Road Haulage Association. He admitted that he had not read it all. The application was granted,
Smith and Heslop, Ltd., Haltwhistle, sought a B licence to replace a contract-A licence so that they could carry their own goods. The contract-A vehicle had been carrying lime for a lime company as required.
Mr. W. Smith, of the company, told Mr. F. J. McHugh, for the railways, that he wished to carry goods as required for the lime company. which dealt with goods other than lime. Mr. Smith admitted that he should have made this clear on the application form.
The Authority commented: "So someone else has left the form to a clerk to type and fill up. If you had filled it up, you might have put down what you wanted." • The application was granted for lime for the lime company to the north and Scotland, and the Authority added that if the applicants wished to carry goods other than lime, or lime for any other customers, they would have to apply for an amendment.
MINISTER ALLOWS DEPOT APPEAL THE Minister of Housing has allowed I an appeal by R. T. Thomas and Son, Ltd., hauliers, Cheshunt, against the refusal of Cheshunt Urban District Council to permit the establishment of a transport depot, office and garage at Rowlands Fields.
:The Minister noted that at present the company had no depot or yard and had to park their lorries overnight in public car parks or roads, and that thre cost of land in an industrial area for garaging would be heavy for a small Concern.
Access to the roadway was considered adequate, and there was judged to be a reasonable distance between the proposed site and the nearest residences.