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Bench Criticizes Commissioners
Page 97
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nEPRECATING comments on -the
L./ activities of the Western Traffic , ,
Commis' sioners were made by Mr. Henry Butt, -C.C., chairman of Westonsuper-Mare justices, last week, when the Commissioners proseeuted Weston coach proprietors for running unlicensed feeder services. For the Commissioners, it was stated that. certain Weston operators had developed the practice of using small vehicles to pick up passengers at private apartments, in connection with coach excursions, to carry them to the starting point free of charge. Unless carried out under licence, this was -held to he illegal, and it was likely to cause traffic dongestion.
It waS stated that the defendants
charged 6d. per person for transport by the feeder services. Mr. Butt declared that if it were legal for each person to travel in a separate vehicle, but illegal for a group of passengers to travel in the same vehicle at separate fares, traffic congestion would be increased. Speaking personally, he thought that the Commissioners were exceeding their duty. Mr. :r. D. Corpe, for the Commissioners, regarded this as an improper observation for the chairman of the bench to make, and remarked that it might be forwarded to the Ministry of Transport for reference to the Horne Office. The defendants were ordered to pay the cost of the summonses and witnesses" expenses.