BUS REGULATIONS MUST BE ENFORCED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 10

BUS REGULATIONS MUST BE ENFORCED

QUESTION OF INSURANCE The Public Works Department i, Insisting that omnibus licensing autho rities enforce the regulations undw the Motor-Omnibus Traffic Acts At the meeting of the No. 2 Licensing Authority last evening attention was drawn to the necessity for seeing that proper insurance, in accordance with the Omnibus Act of 1926. was provided in respect of every bus licensed before it was permitted to run. An instance was given where an inquiry into a recent bus accident revealed that there was no insurance of passengers. Mr. T. Walsh said the regulations were defective in that they did not specify that the insurance poliev should coincide with the licence period Actually a bus might be insured wheii licensed, but the policy could lapse before the time arrived for the issue •' a fresh licence. The clerk reported that every bus on the North Shore was properly covered by insurance. The department also intimated that police assistance was to be sought in detecting owners running unlicensed vehicles. In reply to the chairman, the traffic inspector to No. 2 stated that all North Shore buses carried the proper licences.