CITY MOTOR 'BUSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2815, 5 July 1916, Page 4

CITY MOTOR 'BUSES

ACTION -AT LAW TERMINATED.

At the last meeting of the City Council the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) announced that it was not intended to go on with the appeal lodged against tho. decision of the Supreme Court in the case Richardson, M'Cabo, and Co. v. the City Council. Referring to the motor chassis which the City Council has taken over from the firm namod, the Mayor stated that the original intention was to utilise them as J buses to feed the tramway service in out-of-the-way suburbs, such as tho upper part of Hataitai and Roseneatli. and perhaps Northland, bnt such, ■was tho condition of the roads That the Tramways Manager (Mr. W. H. Morton) had thought it inadvisable to institute 6uch a service. If the. conditions had been normal, a certain amount of money would have been spent on oertain roads to fit them for heavy motor traffic, but this money had not been made available, and i't would bo folly to institute 6uch a service owing to the great wear and tear upon the 'buses. Now that the council ha'd terminated the law case, the question as to what was to be done with the chassis. would bo considered at the next, meeting of tho Tramways Committee. One of tho 'three had already been converted into a utility-wagon for the nfio of tho'tramways freight service, but consideration would now have to lie given as' to how the others were to be. used with a view to definite action in tho coming spring.