BUS LICENSES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 3

BUS LICENSES

LIMITATION ON APPLICATIONS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Auckland, November 22. At a meeting of the No. 1 (City) licensing authority, the city solicitor, Mr. Johnstone, stated that whatever might be the true construction of the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, it was clear that the regulations under the Act contemplated that the applications to any particular authority should be limited to the services wholly within that authority’s district. Mr. Johnstone disagreed with the judgment of Mr. McKean, S.M. The Legislature, lie said, had not omitted to declare that a license was necessary, and, if it had merely omitted to make special provision to meet the present case (in Takapuna), that was an omission which operated, not in favour of but against the applicant, and he must obtain the necessarylicense. Even though strict compliance with the Act might work some hardship, in his opinion, the council would not be justified in issuing a license for that portion of the Takapuna-Devonport service outside No. 1 licensing district. _ Th© application for a license ci kind was deferred in view of the probability of an appeal against the Magistrate’s decision.