INDIGNATION MEETING
DECISION OF TRANSPORT BOARD. WAIMATE, June 14. A largely attended indignation meeting discussed the position of Andrew Shanks, who lost his license for a bus run, AVaimate to Tiniaru. Shanks lost his leg in an accident and purchased the bus business in Alay, 1931, with tlie compensation money therefrom. Tne local licensing authority licensed Shanks but a competitor appealed, and the Appeal Court cancelled it. The meeting, which included ministers of religion, Mayor Dash and Air Bitchener, ALP., agreed -that 'Shanks’ sea-vice was satisfactory, and protested against th© legislation which forced him off the run, and provided no competition. It agreed to support him -and any transport business undertajken, aliiso to suggest that the Railway Department engage him -to transport passengers from AVaimate to Studholme in place of the railway bus.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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133INDIGNATION MEETING Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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