MENACE OF THE MOTOR-BUS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1833, 20 August 1913, Page 8

MENACE OF THE MOTOR-BUS.

TO MUNICIPAL CAES. Whother or not motor-buses should bo allowed to enter into competition with municipal transit schemes was discussed bv tlie Municipal Association yesterday. Tho oliairnvan (Mr. J. P. Luke) claimed that the municipal tram schemes were ontitled to the same protection as the Government railways. Who would lend monev to anunioinalities if it were understood" tliat, before they hod an opportunity of remodelling their schemes, certain persons might be allowed to enter into competition' with them ? , . Mr. Fletcher drew attention to the fact that tli" Government would not. allow the Wellington* City Council to extend their tramways to Kaiwam on the ground tliwt it woulil bo in competition with the Gov-. eminent railways. . It was resolved that tho municipalities press forward their objections to outsiders being Allowed to enter into competition with tho transit schemes of local bodies. , , At a later stago (when Section 23 of tho Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1013, was under consideration), Mr. E. P. Bunny movml an amendment to provi'do that, where tho local body subsidised a passenger or goods servioo, there should be a joint interest or partnership arrangement. This was carried.