BUS-TRAM WAR
BY TELEGRAPH- —-PRESS ASSN... COPYRIGHT. WELLINGTON. June 10. The buses are being run in the city, and the usual fares are being charged. There is some difference of opinion between Mr AlcDonald, the Manager of the Bus Company and the Mayor, Mr Norwood, as to whether the Council proposed to issue a license provided the prescribed terms are filled in by the company. The .Mayor has indicated that the Finance Committee are prepared to recommend the Council to grant a license. “We air. 1 charging the usual faros,” said Air MacDonald, “and we will have to continue to do so till the Council determines its policy on the questions of licenses. lam not going to take out these ridiculous insurance policies until I know whetlter a license w ill he granted or not.” The Mayor, in reply, says the regulations are the law, and must be complied with. The City Council, sitting as the Licensing Authority under the. Alotor Bus Regulations, carried a resolution regretting that the Government had passed on to the local authorities the onerous responsibility of determining which buses should he liable to the extra two penny faro, when the matter was really one for Government regulation, and should bo determined by the Government.
ANOTHER, DIFFICULTY. AUCKLAND, June 10. For the present at any rate, the Takapuna Borough Council cannot function as a Linen.-dug Authority under the motor omnibus regulations, Air Justice Stringer having granted an interim injunction against it. The grounds of the application, which was made by the local bus proprietors were that regulations are ultra vires, and that the Council as licensing authority would have a bias against the buses. HAAIILTON BUS SERVICE. HAMILTON, Juno 10. The Hamilton Bus Proprietors, after discussing the effect of the bus regulations regarding insurances, decided to carry on their services. One days’ cessation of the services had l.een proposed, os a protest against tTie regulations. but it was resolved not to carry that out.
Applications will be made to the Borough Council for temporary licences for the existing services.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1926, Page 2
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