WARNING ISSUED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 16

WARNING ISSUED

TRANSPORT OPERATORS

OBSERVANCE OF REGU-

LATIONS

"During the next few months numerous applications for renewal of transport licences will come before me! for hearing and, as has already been indicated, in dealing with applications consideration will be given to the' service rendered by the applicant, his financial position and ability to maintain the service under which he operates," stated the No. 1 Transport Licensing Authority, Mr. E. J. Phelan, at a sitting of the authority in Wairoa, when issuing a general warning to licence-holders that it was the intention to take the necessary action to see that they complied with the regulations, reports the Napier "Daily Tele- j graph." "From time to time the district officer has drawn my attention to reports of the inspecting accountants of the Transport Department in my area,"! stated Mr. Phelan, "and it appears that i not more than 25 per cent, of those licensees whose records have been examined have fully complied with the i terms of the regulations. I "I wish it to be clearly underI stood," stated the authority, "that where it is shown that applicants are not carrying out their obligations, I shall have no option but to grant short-term licences only, and reserve the right to review such licences later, with a view to ensuring that the licensee is complying strictly with all the requirements of his licence. "In fact," concluded Mr. Phelan, "some operators have so flagrantly disregarded my previous warnings that I shall have to consider very seriously as to whether or not they are fit and proper persons to hold a licence in future." . ' ■