Bid to Simplify Carriers' Licences
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I N the North-Western Area, Sir William Hart, Deputy Licensing Authority, has started a campaign to simplify carriers' licences, to eliminate tautology and to do away with misleading terms, such as " principally coal," or " Manchester and district." At a recent public inquiry there were various instances of this effort, including the granting of a -general radius, instead of a long list of customers.
For Messrs. Greenhalgh and Huggins, of Bury, instead of a 'long screed of named customers,"Mr. H.
Backhouse (C.M.U.A. solicitor) secured " general goods 30 miles, apart from solid fuel, 10 miles."
Coal was a contentious bone throughout the sitting, and Mr. G. H. P. Beames (for the railways) supplied the information that no coal carriers were entitled to carry coal for Lancashire Associated Collieries unless they held a letter Damn this body. The Authority has been thus advised.
A phrase reading " to points where customers' contracts are being executed" was deleted in favour of a 15-mile radius and Buxton, in the case of Mr. Colin Mountain, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. The difficulty was that the phrase did not justify fetching sand from Knutsforcl or lime from Buxton.
On the application of Mr. H. Backhouse, for Ashton and Co. (Swinton), Ltd., an addition was made to the licence of " general goods, five miles:. It was contended that the Hill and Long judgment gave the Licensing Authority sanction to grant this concession without previous publication.