Newcomer Seeks Livestock Work Done by Former Employer
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A FTER working three days as a driver for a livestock haulier, Mr. M. A. Curtin, Wolley Hill Farm, Hollingworth, near Glossop, bought his own vehicle and got support from farmers to whom he had been delivering. This was stated at Manchester, last week, when Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, heard Mr. Curtin's application for a new 13 licence to carry livestock within 50 miles of base.
There were five road objectors, together with British Railways, who all claimed that existing facilities were adequate. The application, which was supported by six witnesses, was adjourned after Mr. Lindsay had found that there was a case to answer.
In evidence, Mr. Curtin said he had bought • a C-licence vehicle with the express purpose of carrying livestock for other people. He intended to take it to . local markets in the hope that he would. be given cattle to carry back. At present, farmers were having to pay outside hauliers to come into the area because they had no carriers locally. They had found difficulty in getting' vehicles at short notice.
.. Mr. H. Brightmore, vice-chairman of .Hadfield Co-operative Society's board of management, said they had employed one
• of the objectors for several years to carry their livestock, but now Mr. Curtin had offered to do the work cheaper. The society's policy was tO employ the cheapest operator, and they intended to give him all their work if the application were granted;
. Answering Mr. Lindsay, he said they had never told their present haulier. Mr. Robinson, that his charges were excessive, or that their butchery manager had advised them to change hauliers.
For the road objectors, Mr. J. H. Dunkerley pointed out that the application was designed to abstract traffic from a haulier who had worked for years .without receiving a complaint. • The society should have approached him.
After Mr. Dunkerley's submission that there was no case to answer had been overruled, evidence was given by Mr. W. E. Williams, who controls Mr. Robinson's business. He recalled that Mr. Curtin had worked for him two days of one week and one day of another, and had then put in his application, supported by a petition from the farmers he had contacted.