THE BUS REGULATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 9

THE BUS REGULATIONS.

ANOTHER STRONG PROTEST.

Mr. Hall Skelton and Mr. E. Stevenso n addressed a large gathering at Onehunga on Saturday night. The meeting was most unanimous in denouncing the bus regulations. The following resolution was passed:

"That if these regulations are carried into effect on June 11, we pledge ourselves to ride in the buses from that date, and to urge everyone else to do the same, as we consider the regulations illegal, unconstitutional and commercially immoral. We urge the Auckland City Council to stop cut-throat methods with their buses, which lost about £1000 a year each, and attend to their trams, which can be made to pay if judicially administered. We believe 00 per cent of the people are strongly in favour of the buses from the public point of view, and resent the unfair communistic tactics of the council as being un-British and unmanly."

Another resolution was moved by a stranger in the audience, and was carried with cheers:

"That, as Mr Coates, by Order-in-Council, has usurped the perogatives of constitutional government, he be requested to bring down another Order-in-Council dispensing with Parliament and Parliamentary representation, as being an unnecessary public expense."