TRUCK LICENCE FOR FARM

Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 23

TRUCK LICENCE FOR FARM

Authority Grants Application Holding that the public Interast section at the Transport Act would be satisfied by encouraging the trustees of the esto'e of E P. H. Burbury to keep the "Glynn Wye" Station, in the Lewis Pass, productive, the No. 9 licensing Authority (Mr J S. Haywood) in a reserved judgment has granted an application by the trustees for new continuous goods-service iicenco with one vehicle •u'horrty. The authority said that although the Railways Department had objected to the application he did not find from the evidence that a great deal of the truck work conflioed with the statutory protection for the Railways Denartmen'. The authority said that the “Glynn Wye" station, with a present carrying capacity of 15.000 sheep and 500 cattle, needed a suitable truck for caring winter feed. Referring to the estate duties payable, the authority said that in these special circumstances, considered in conjunction with the importance of primary production from a high-counkry station, he was persuaded that the trustees qualified tor sympathetic consideration. The replacement of an obsolete vehicle by a new four-wheeled-drive truck was justified on the grounds of economy and efficiency In granting the application the authority excluded the carriage of fertiliser on the truck, and said tire provisions of the railway restrictions would not apply between ‘Glynn Wye” and Christchurch.