New Cattle Set-up Hits Haulier
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A LAKELAND livestock haulier rl stated before the Northern Licensing Authority last week that his livelihood was being prejudiced by the new arrangements governing the transport of cattle.
Mr. Ezekiel Myers, of Great Langdale, Westmorland, successfully sought to increase his radius of operation from 25 to 80 miles. He said that before decontrol he had been busy taking cattle from farms to collection centres. Now, however, the animals were being taken direct to slaughterhouses which were beyond his permitted radius, The Westmorland area secretary of the National Farmers' Union stated in a letter that the availability of hauliers to collect from farms was becoming difficult because of the increasing activities of the Fatstock Marketing Corporation.
Mr. J. Kirkwood, for British Railways, said that the number of wagons provided for livestock traffic from Kendal to Lancashire had declined from 129 in the period July-September, 1953, to 116 in the corresponding weeks of this year. The railways had lost almost all the sheep traffic because they could not compete with road rates since decontrol.