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The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all diSculties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it runs.--John Beattie Crozier.
Lull in. &Licence Struggle
A TEMPORARY deadlock appears to tt have been reached in the struggle against further restrictions on B licences, In the north-western area cases are held in abeyance, pending a clarification of the situation created by the Hill and Long judgment in the House of Lords.
Sir Williatn4;Hart, Deputy NorthWestern Licensing Authority, at recent public sittings, has commented on the strength of the ruling of Lord Justice Greer and has undertaken to consider a transcript of the judgment in the Lords taken on behalf of the railways.
Two adjourned cases are concerned, to a slight extent, with furniture removing and, therefore, bear some parallel to the appeal case, but Mr. H. Baekhouse, Junr., the Commercial Motor Users Association solicitor, is stressing the point that " excess of requirements " and breach of conditions are the only grounds of objection on renewal and that the onus of proof is • on the objector.
To the suggestion by Sir William Hart that a distinction should be drawn between the man who onlY occasionally used a covering over his vehicle for the removal of furniture, and the fulltime remover, Mr. Backhouse replied that many persons could not afford to hire pantechnicons. If, by the reduction of a radius from 100 miles to 70 miles, he was prevented from taking only one order in the year, that was a serious abstraction from a small man.
There was specific direction in the 1933 Act that there must be no substantial interference with business carried on in the past.