AUCKLAND BUSES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 9

AUCKLAND BUSES.

BREACHES OF NEW BY-LAWS

(special to "the rasas.") AUCKLAND, April 20. ' In defianco of the City Council's new by-ljw, which "prohibits. motor-Mses in Qaefen street, and which came into force to-day, practically all vehicles owned by the various private companies continued throughout the day to ply for hire within the prohibited area. ' The main street presented its usual ' congested scene, with buses running up < aka down, the only vehioles that were . mlMing being the City Council b own conveyances and a few others which lU' trom their new terminii. From 7.30 a.m. the traffic inspectors *tre posted at the corner of Wellesley ifaet and at the Customs street mterifttfon, and they had not been there n||ny minutes before they realised that were going to have a busy morn- % It was quite surprising the large )|ttber of idlers who had at that early Jfer found it convenient to gather at ■' wtoms street corner to seo the "fun. 1 Seping their usual timo-table, _ the • buss came on the scene, their drivers ■ tfviously ignoring the by-law. They probably acting under instructions ■ feoSi - their employers, and were no v -iflltißt emboldened by tho knowledge the new rule was to be contested U the Supremo Court. The inspectors . t exercised their authority. as each 'buß came along it was m up and tho names and addresses ®tihe drivers, together with tho license awnbere of the vehicles and other neces- ' details, were entered up in official Jjtebooks, which wcro filled rapidly. I*oßo* drivers who were interrogated by and who, despite instructions, JfljnlHed their intention of staying in j'.'Jdeia street, were recorded as having the further offence of dist the inspectors' orders. I' _i^kil e these operations were in proidlers at the corner cheered and |r'-WWd intermittently, their sympathies Is jjgHfc obviously with the bus men. The F' themselves showed no animosity [ rjwts the officials, and appeared to matter as a joke. One I ? as to abandon his orit S{~ intention of breaking the by-law. iKv JJ. 'lttitndo adopted by the drivers gj® B that a large number of Police I joT? are now pending. The first, t tart 150 in tho nature of a ut tlli3 will depend upon the \ , a dopted by the Benclu