TRANSPORT SERVICES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 97, 28 August 1942, Page 5

TRANSPORT SERVICES

NO. 1 LICENSING AUTHORITY

SETTING IN WHAKATANE

"Those present will all understand' that the review of their licens'es to-day is due to a national effort to conserve benzine and rubber," said Mr J. Phelan, chairman of No. 1 Licensing Authority at the sitting held in Whakatane yesterday. "While it h!as been found very necessary to make reductions, it is reialised that there are difficulties in the country districts, for when a service is curtailed it often results! in double-loading, which is actually defeating our purpose of economy. The position however is that vehicles, run for pictures, parties, picnics, sighit-see-ing trips and party outings, things like that —all must stop."

Mr Phelan went on to say that -] the Transport Committee' set up in each town was armed with despotic J powers and had the authority to f order carriers to do what they con- j sidered in the best interests of the district. The position to-day was that people had to be inconvenien- j ced. There was no dodging it. It g was a choice of continuing on at the j same old rate and lasting say six months or of endeavouring to cor- r rect the position and by co-ordinat-ing out efforts last out say for 18 j months. Somebody would have to j be hurt in the process and it was a matter of asking the transport proprietors the best way of going about it so as to hurt the least.