A different Association
30th May 1975, Page 47
30th May 1975
Page 47
Page 47, 30th May 1975
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This year's retirement of three Licensing Authorities reminds me how seldom these days we hear the snippets of humour which once seemed as much a stock-in-trade of traffic courts as of stipendiary magistrates' courts. Perhaps because such a high proportion of hearings now are section 69 or other disciplinary affairs.
Somerset reader H. J. Webb tells me, though, that Bristol still produces the odd smile. Recently Maj-Gen Sir John Potter asked a prominent Accrington haulier, in the witness box, to give a short history of his firm, and heard that it started in 1880 with horses and carts.
" Ah, yes," said Sir John, "the administration in those days would have been under the supervision of the RSPCA, not the LA."