WITNESSES WOULD NOT TRAVEL TO NEWCASTLE
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WHEN a solicitor representing an applicant stated at Newcastle-onTyne last week that there would have been a large number of supporting witnesses in attendance if the hearing had been held at Stockton-on-Tees, the Northern Licensing Authority remarked: "They cannot be seriously pressed if they won't come 40 miles to support an application of this nature."
Mr. K. W. Devereux, of Norton-onTees, was applying for a B licence for two vehicles to carry building materials and steelwork within a 25-mile radius. Mr. J. Brooks, works manager of the Lintzgarth Canister Co., stated that his company could give the applicant ample work. No business would be abstracted from the Road Haulage Executive, which objected.
The Authority granted a licence restricted to the carriage of road and building materials within 25 miles for the Lintzgarth concern. "If other witnesses had attended," he said, "1 might have granted a more open licence."