BUS SERVICE
BREACH OF PASSENGER LICENCE. PROSECUTION BY TRANSPORT ■- DEPARTMENT. The inadequacy of the bus service to the Lower Valley was stressed by counsel in the Magistrate’s Court, Masterton, this morning, when Mr H. P. Lawry, S.IVL, fined Martin Smith, bus service proprietor, £1 10s and 10 s costs on a charge relating to a breach of his passenger service licence. Inspector W. G. Milne, of the Transport Department, said that the defendant operated a regular service from Masterton to Carterton. In the New Year the Transport Licensing Authority reviewed his licence and cut out some of the trips to save tires. The Authority eliminated the trip from Masterton at 1.30 p.m. daily. Smith had carried on the trip and had ignored the Authority’s instruction. At the time the service was reviewed there was not the passenger traffic that there was today. There were then no Marines in the district. The case was brought following a complaint from Masterton to the Department in Wellington. Mr T. Jordan, who appeared for Smith, said that his licence had been considerably cut down and as a result he had appealed against the Authority’s decision. Mr Jordan submitted that the position was unsatisfactory so far as transport was concerned. He said it was most difficult to get an answer from the Transport Department. Women and children from Carterton were not able to get home because of the number of Marines travelling on the buses. He had telephoned the Department last Thursday and Friday, but had not yet received a reply. Mr Jordan said his client had done a little wrong to do a great right, as the 1.30 p.m. bus was fully loaded with^ipassengers when the inspector had spoken to the driver. Mr Lawry said people were driven to use public transport services, on account of the tire and petrol situation. The transport services were inadequate. Mr Lawry added that there had been trouble in the past between Smith and opposition drivers.
Inspector Milne: “There has always been a little conflict.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 4
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337BUS SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 4
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