LICENSED CARRIERS.
A theft case deali with at the Police Court yesterday serves to illustrate the need for the exercise of proper care in', issuing licenses to carriers. The accused person in the case in question had received several cases of goods for delivery and had sold one of them and converted the proceeds to his own use. . In. the course of'the proceedings it was elicited that the.accused had been convicted of theft on previous pccasions, and the police stated that his employer, who was willing to re-engage him, ,had also been convicted of theft. Both these persons were stated to be holders' of carriers' licenses, and it would be interesting to know who was responsible, for their iissue and what enquiry is made in such cases before granting applications for licenses. The matter : is one of some public concern. Pre-, siimably Carriers are not permitted to ply for hire without a license because it is necessary in the public interest to exercise some control oyer these men, and to provide some reasonable safeguard for those who entrust their goods to their care. But in the cases under review there appears to have been , a laxity not at all creditable 1 to the City Corporation. The Carriers' TJnion, in the interests of its members generally, might well take the matter up.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 4
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221LICENSED CARRIERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 4
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