TRANSPORT OF OWN GOODS IN "A" VEHICLE ALLEGED.
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A case which occupied the Louth magistrates some considerable time, last week, was that in which the East Midland Licensing Authority summoned Charles and Frank Anderson, haulage contractors, • Church Street. Louth, for alleged failure to _comply with the conditions of an A licence.
Mr. T. J. Lewis, prosecuting, alleged that the defendants were carrying their own goods under an A licence. Mr. A. G. Curtis, of the Licensing Authority's staff, said that the defendants had in their, employ a driver named Scott, who presumably bought ice in Grimsby for the defendants and sold it in Louth.
A Louth butcher said that he bought his Ice at Grimsby. Since Scott had been working for the Andersons, he called on him each day to obtain orders for ice. Witness always paid .him a -price for the ice and so much for delivery.
Mr. Lewis said that on the evidence of this witness he was willing that the case should go against him and he would proceed on another summons, against Louth Builders' Merchants, Ltd., which, he declared, was a company consisting of the two defendants.
The first case was, therefore, dismissed with costs.
The case against Louth Builders' Merchants, Ltd.. was next proceeded 'with and, as the evidence was substantially the same, the • bench dismissed it.
Liverpool's 342,000 Tons of Refuse.
In his annual report, Dr. W. M.
Frazer, Liverpool medical officer of health, makes a brief survey of the operations carried out by the cleansing staff under the control of the city engineer.
During 1936, the quantity of domestic and trade refuse collected was 341,789 tons and the average quantity dealt with per working day was 1,196 tons. The whole of the 703 miles of streets, with their passages, except for a few on the outskirts of, the city, are swept weekly.
Seven sweeping machines are • employed regularly, five on night work, covering approximately 100 brush miles of roadway nightly, and two on day work, brushing the roadway and picking up sweepings in side streets.
Three mechanical gully-emptiers are now in use, In connection with street watering, 2,027,000 gallons of water were distributed during last summer season.
The beat system of street cleansing is in operation in all districts in the city.
New Aberdeen 1147,000 Bridge.
Aberdeen Town Council has been recommended by its streets and works committee to accept the tender of £147,498 by William Tawse, Ltd., Aberdeen, for the construction of the -proposed new bridge across the River Dee at Allenvale.