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railways) said the application was made to rectify the position and to enable the applicants to do what they did in the basic year. The Authority was being asked to legalize what had actually been done for the past year.
The evidence produced was insufficient to justify an addition to the licence, said Mr. Shepherd. These applicants had taken it into their hands to add traffic to their business.
In the basic year the applicants had qualified for that for which they now asked, said Mr. Lustgarten. It was wrong to say they had no licence for anything except coal, bricks and timber. From the commencement " bricks and timber principally" had been mentioned. Until the last previous hearing the word " principally " was on the licence and it followed that certain other commodities could be carried.
Decision was reserved, the Deputy Licensing Authority asking for the production of various figures in relation to the traffics of the applicants and the Canal Carriers.