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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 65, 10 December 1926, Page 11

browt Dealing with the motor-bus regulations, the Christchurch “Press” .says: “It seems to us, as it will certainly seem to most .people, to be monstrous that a Licensing Authority can order one company to cease operations in order that tlie other company may enjoy a monopoly. That such a thing could happen is an alarming revelation of the degree in which liberty and justice have been eaten away by the creeping disease of bureaucratic regulation. In principle there is no essential difference between the banishment of a private transport company for the benefit of a publicly-own-ed system, and the banishment of one private company for the benefit of another. Both cases are cases of gross injustice. There is no reason whatever why a grocer in a given street cannot plead the principle of the Motor -omnibus Traffic Act as a sufficient reason why a new Act should be passed enabling him to apply for the ejection of any other grocer who may wish to open a shop anywhere near.” It cannot be too emphatically or too frequently stated that the British Dominions arc reserved for the expansion of the British peoples, and that there is not tlie slightest chance of their being thrown open to the hordes. of Asin or to the superfluous millions of Europe. This is not a question which admits of argument.—Nelson “Evening Mail.”