Driver Denies Fraud Over Subsistence
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A LTHOUGH he denied the allegations rA against him, Frank Hutchinson, driver, of Grasby Road. Hull, was fined £5 at Hull last week for obtaining 15s. subsistence allowance by false pretences. He pleaded not guilty to obtaining the money from the Key Warehousing and Transport Co., Ltd., his former employers.
The prosecution stated that after taking a load to Manchester, Hutchinson telephoned the company, who instructed him to spend the night at Huddersfield and return to Hull the next day. The same evening, however, an employee of the company was said to have seen Hutchinson's lorry being driven in Hull. Defendant was paid expenses for the night he was supposed to have spent at H uddersfield.
Hutchinson said that all the lodgings in Huddersfield were full. He parked his lorry there and spent the night at Sheffield, and denied being seen in Hull.
SERVICE CUTS REFUSED
AN attempt by Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway, Ltd., to persuade the North-Western Traffic Commissioners to reduce the frequency of winter services operated by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., between Llandudno and Colwyn Bay, has failed. The Commissioners have refused to agree.
The Electric Railway also sought to reintroduce the Suez emergency cuts in their winter timetable for the route. The Commissioners will now give them an opportunity to reconsider the application and say what action they wish to be taken on it.
The hearing, during which bitter allegations were made against Crosville, was reported in The Commercial Motor on December 13 and January 24.