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Dairies Cutting Out Hauliers ?
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AN allegation that an operator had lost his milk carrying because a large dairy concern had offered to do the work at ed, per gallon, instead of Id. a gallon, was made by Mr. H. Backhouse, jour., at a Chester sitting of the North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority, last week. He was appearing for Mr. J. P. Wilson, Meadow House, Tarporley, who applied for a renewal of his A licence for a 2i-ton vehicle.
" It seems, to me that these large dairies are deliberately exploiting the position created by the Act," continued Mr. Backhouse, "to tie these men down to this price. They know perfectly well that hauliers have to depend upon it and that it is a serious thing for a carrier to be deprived of a large proportion of his work, or be compelled to take unrernunerative contracts.
"One cannot help feeling that the Milk Marketing Board is in some way to blame, in that its contracts do not contain a fixed price for the carriage of milk, although there is a fixed price for the milk. The result is that the big dairies have hit upon this method of carrying the milk at a ridiculous figure, to give what is, in effect, a discount to the farmer."
This was not the only case in which this question had arisen—it was occurring in other parts of the NorthWestern Area. The difficulty was that the large dairies carried milk under C licences, over which the Authority had no control.
Mr. V. R. Shepherd, appearing for a road objector, said he could not agree that Mr. Backhouse's remarks had any application to this particular case, because the applicant's milk traffic was over and above the normal work of the dairy concerned.
Mr. G. a P. Beames, for the railways, declared that the type of work which the applicant was now undertaking was almost entirely different from that carried out by his predecessor, Mr.. Walker, from whom he purchased the business, The greater part of the work was for a dairy which had its own vehicles. Surely there was nothing to stop the dairy company from utilizing the provisions of the Act and purchasing its own vehicles?
The unfortunate applicant had fallen between two .stools.
Decision was reserved.