PLYING FOR HIRE
RIGHTS OF LORRY OWNER MUST HAVE LICENCE (From Our Resident Coi-respondent.) HAMILTON, To-day. A decision of interest to owners of motor-vehicles was given by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Hamilton fcmprerae Court yesterday, when H. W. bently appealed against the decision of Mr. It. M. Watson, S.M., who, at Te Kuiti, convicted Bently for driving a vehicle for hire without such vehicle being duly licensed. It had been admitted that appellant’s vehicle was plying for hire within the meaning ol' the by-law, but it was claimed that the vehicle, a service car, was a “motor-lorry,’’ in respect of which a heavy-traffic licence fee under the Motor Lorry Regultaions, 1925, had been paid, and that it was, therefore exempt from the provisions of the law cited. Mr. Justice Herdman held that the heavy-traffic licence fee paid by appellant in effect fixed the load which the vehicle might carry. It did not authorise the vehicle to ply for hire, nor did it authorise the driver to do so.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 94, 12 July 1927, Page 6
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169PLYING FOR HIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 94, 12 July 1927, Page 6
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