Bet Applications to be Published
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STARTING with this year's sugar-beet season, the West Midland Licensing Authority proposes to publish all applications. for .short-term licences ft on operators desiring to carry this traffic. Although it will be necessary for hauliers to lodge applications at least eight weeks before they need the licences, it is not thought that any difficulty should' arise.
The Authority will be prepared to consider applications-in chambers only when they are unopposed at the end of the statutory period for objections, and where clear documentary evidence, such as a letter from the British Sugar Corporation, exists to satisfy him of need. In all other cases he will hear the applications in court.
Letters to this effect have been sent to operators' associations in the area. The Authority wishes to reverse the tendency of operators to apply at the last minute and with scant supporting evidence,