APPLICATION TO CART LOGS ADJOURNED

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1948, Page 3

APPLICATION TO CART LOGS ADJOURNED

After hearing evidence, the No. 3 Licensing Authority (Mr P. J. Skoglund) adjourned an application by Greymouth carrying contractor to ■backload logs .from Kumara. The applicant was Patrick John Mackei, Shakespeare Street, who sought an amendment of a goods service license No. A 311, ‘to authorise the backloading of logs from Mr Perangs property on the Kumara-Kumara Junction highway, to Tobin and Party’s sawmill on the same highway.

Mackei said that at present he was permitted to enter Kumara township with firewood. If he could obtain the license he sought, it wuold' mean that he could come back with logs. To Mr W. D. Taylor for Ingles and coy., Mackei said he had been approached by the people running the mill because they were getting unsatisfactory service.

Mr Taylor: What price were you offered? —I was offered 1/6 per log foot. That work has been done by Inglis and coy. for years? —Yes. Mr C. S. McGniley for Mackei: Did not Tobin offer you a partnership in the business?—Yes, and although I seriously considered taking it, but I thought that if I could obtain this license, it, would be an easy way out. I could do the carrying for them.

Mr Skoglund said that on the evidence, he could not grant a license. There would have to be some evidence of dissatisfaction from Tobin’s against Inglis and Coy. The case would be adjourned until the next sitting.