Unlicensed Carriers

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 10, 12 July 1893, Page 2

Unlicensed Carriers

TO THK EDITOR OF THB STAH. Sir, — Kindly allow me through your columns to draw nttention to what I consider a wrong that is being perpetrated daily in our niid^t. I refer to the wholesale carting done by men and vehicles who do not possess a license. The Borough Council tt-ke from the carriers thoir license fer, whicl? pprwiSCfbe. InfKF to ply for hire. Could you give me » definition of this term ? It is plying for hire having a vehicle always ready to cart anything (o or from the station when engaged ? The mailman plies for hire almost daily at the railways. Does he pay a license ? And only this week we have had the spectacle of a private grocery firm carting furniture from the goods shed for a family domiciled in Glasgow House. If these things are permitted, I think it it is high time the three or four of us, who regularly pay our licenses, object to do oo for the future. They are under the impression it is a privilege they are paying for, but it ceases to be so when any person possessing a vehicle can, without a license, take engagements for removing all classes of goods or furniture The licensed carriers have their living to gain with their vehicles only, but that will be impossible for them to do if leading grocers and others descend to become unlicensed common carriers, I am, etc., 0. J. Wickham.