GOODS DELIVERY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 8

GOODS DELIVERY

DRIVERS CONCERNED

OBJECTION TO CITY BY-LAW

A special general stop-work meeting of the Wellington Motor Drivers' Union will be held on Wednesday next to consider what future action the drivers intend taking, in connection with the delivery of goods, in the busy city streets. "The drivers," stated Mr. T. Magee, secretary of the Drivers' Union today, "feel that they are being treated unfairly by the fact of their having to deliver goods and forced to double park, also by being prosecuted by the Traffic Department while doing their daily work. The drivers consider that some action should be taken by the City Council to repeal the by-law regarding parking more than 12 inches from the kerb.

"Some time back a deputation comprising members of the Wellington Master Carriers' Association and the Wellington Motor Drivers' Union waited on the City Council bylaw committee to try and solve this problem." Since then nothing has been done, .and proceedings are being taken against drivers for parking more than 12 inches from the kerb."

Mr. Magee added that should these prosecutions continue, drivers of commercial vehicles who are forced to break this bylaw through delivery of goods, would have no other alternative but to return the goods to where they came from.