Haulier Keeps Licence After Inquiry
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A FTER an inquiry at Kendal last week, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, decided not to revoke or suspend the B licence of Mr. Henry Walling, of Tarnside, Strickland Tenement, Crosthwaite. Mr. Walling had had 15 convictions recorded against him by the county magistrates at Kendal on November 5 and 25. He was fined a total of £56, with £28 costs, on 15 charges of exceeding a radius of 50 miles from Kendal.
When Mr. Walling had given evidence in the crowded court room, Mr. Hanlon said he thought that the haulier now realized the seriousness of infringing the law, and he considered it unnecessary to take further action.
Mr. Hanlon referred to a subterfuge" by Mr. Walling at Kendal auction mart, when he pretended" that he had bought some cattle and carried them to Wakefield, when he was not entitled to do so. Mr. Walling said he thought that if he purchased them it would be in order to move them.
The Authority said that he could have granted an extension of Mr. Walling's licence to allow him to carry horses to a jumping event at Stockport Show, for which the haulier had been prosecuted.
Mr. Walling said that he had now taken further advice and hoped that he would not transgress the law in future.
MR. MORTON MITCHELL REPLIES
ComMENT S on clearing houses by Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer of the Road Haulage Association, in an article in The Commercial Motor on December 30, have been misunderstood in some quarters.
"What I intended to convey," says Mr. Morton Mitchell, "was that, in general, hauliers should be sure that the sources from which they obtain traffic are sound and pay adequate rates. This, of course, is no reflection upon bona-fide clearing houses, such as those in membership of the Road Haulage Association, who have signed the code of conduct.
"By that code they are obliged to make prompt payment at fair rates, and, in fact, there are very good relationships between such clearing houses and independent hauliers who use them to a large extent."
AVON OFFER ACCEPTED
HOLDERS of 95 per cent. of the issued share capital of George Spencer, Moulton and Co., Ltd., have accepted the offer of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., to acquire their shares at 6s. 6d. each. The transaction is to proceed.
The Spencer, Moulton board has been reconstituted. Mr. C. M. Floyd is, chairman and Mr. 0. F. Swanborough deputy chairman and joint managing director. Mr. J. C. Spencer is the other joint managing director.