Removals Subterfuge Brings Fines B ECAUSE he had pretended that a

2nd October 1959, Page 60

2nd October 1959

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load of furniture being carried in his vehicle belonged to him, Raymond Phillip Thurwell, Huntington Road, York, was fined £10, with £12 12s. costs, at York on Monday. Thurwell held a carrier's licence, but it did not cover removals, so that when another man asked him to move his furntiture to Maidstone, the defendant suggested a subterfuge.

Mr. E. Wurzal, prosecuting, told the magistrates that the " customers " gave the defendant a false receipt—to make it appear that he had bought the furniture —and Thurwell undertook to remove it. . When loading, Thurwell was seen by a rival.

MINISTRY LICENSING CHARGE DISMISSED

A CHARGE of using lorries without a

• rt carrier's licence, brought by the Ministry of Transport against a West Cumberland haulage concern, Edward Fye and Sons, Whitehaven, was dismissed by the Whitehaven bench last week for insufficient evidence.

The prosecution claimed that the alleged offences concerned three lorries, bought in August, 1958, from a former haulage contractor at Seascale, Cumberland, who had held a B licence for them. It was alleged that there was no licence covering the lorries while they were transporting brick rubble and cable sand to Windscale Works for Watling, Ltd.

Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Edward Fye, pleaded not guilty and contended that the material was transported within the Windscale perimeter. An application for costs was refused.

BUS STATION AT FIRST-FLOOR LEVEL

A SCHEME for the construction of a r-1 bus station, built on a plateau at firstfloor level, in the Haymarket and Percy Street area of Newcastle upon Tyne, is under consideration. The Ministry of Housing and Town Planning referred to the plan when rejecting an application by a brewery company to rebuild a public house in Percy Street.

The Ministry stated that no new building developments should take place in the area until the bus-station project and a proposed inner ring road plan had been decided upon. The Ministry stated that the proposed bus station would take a large number of public service vehicles out of the area to set down and pick up passengers. Access to the station would be from the new inner ring road and passengers would enter the station by means of a ramp or steps.

FORD SINGAPORE COURSE

SOME 60 students from a dozen countries in south-east Asia will attend a Ford service parts and industrial-engine course in Singapore next week. This will be the first of a series of courses to be held throughout the world, and a team has flown from England to complete the arrangements.

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