COSTLY PHILANTHROPY
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TO avoid disappointing a police
constable, for whom he had prepared an estimate for removing furniture from Rugby to West Kirby, a distance of 125 miles, a Rugby haulier, J. E. G. Rainbow, did the work in a B-licence vehicle, limited to a range of 20 miles. As a result he was fined £3, with £7 10s. costs, at Rugby, last week, although he had contributed the money received in payment for the removal to the Warwickshire Constabulary Benevolent Fund, and thus, it Was argued, could not be said to have carried the furniture for hire and reward.
' For the defence it was stated that at the time the estimate'Was submitted, the defendant was negotiating the purchase of 'a business which included a licence enabling the removal' Of the furniture o'er this distance to be carried out. A delay, OCcurred and the "defendant agreed to _remove, the furniture in the' vehicle concerned, without intending to make any profit out of, the transaction. The prosecution stated that the defendant knew that he was not allowed to operate beyond 20 miles, and it was for this reason that the cheque was paid into the benevolent fund.