MR. MACVE WARNS LICENSING SUBCOMMITTEES
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LICENSING subcommittees were severely criticized at a recent sitting by Mr. W. E. Macve, North Western Licensing Authority, who said: "1 am not going to have my duties done for me or my prerogative usurped."
He made this statement after he had been told that Mr. Robert Rawcliffe, of Read, had amended an application for an A licence to cover one additional vehicle, instead of two, as the result of attendance at a meeting of a licensing subcommittee. Mr. Rawcliffe said that he still had work for two additional vehicles, but would be satisfied with one.
"It is wrong that a man should go before a committee unrepresented and be cajoled into doing something he does not wish to do," said Mr. Macvc. "He must have some reason for making an application for two vehicles. It is wrong that a man should be cut down at the will and pleasure of this committee. While here, I have certain functions. The committee would be well advised to consider the position. It is sound in its make-up, but it is misfiring somewhere?'
Mr. Macve directed that the original application for two extra vehicles should stand, but, after hearing the evidence, granted a licence for one only.