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TIME-TABLE NOT ADHERED TO. ret Press Association — Copyright.) HASTINGS, July 26. An important dee.sion to holders of passenger .service licenser- was made at a sitting of the No. 4 District Art no 'pj is Hasting to-day, when because of .'a:lure to adhere to the stipulated timetable it was decided to revoke the icense of Whitfields, Ltd., luimmg <m the Napier-Gisborne route. Tn<* revocation of the license was ai’ked for by two other services on the grounds istated, and Whitfields did not appear at the sitting. 1 ;
The chairman, in announcing the decision, said the Act made it obligatory on the authority to cancel the liceitee under such circumstances. '•‘One ;must recoanise,” he said, “that ri a Jicsn* de fails to run a regular service he & not, serving the public at intermediate points. The Act was framed to protect the travelling public against ’rff - gular operators. Others on this route run regular services, and if they adopte 1 .the same practice there vJould bo no oars at intermediate points to carry anyone widling to travel from th-se places.” ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 6
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179LICENSE REVOKED Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 6
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