BOARD'S POWERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 12

BOARD'S POWERS.

BY-LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

OUTSIDE TRAFFIC PROBLEM.

BORROWING AUTHORITY DEFINED

The report sets out in detail the j powers of the proposed board. It says j the board shall have the exclusive right to construct, manage, maintain and operate tramways, and shall have the exclusive right to maintain, manage and operate motor and hoTse omnibus services and any like passenger service by any vehicle plying or standing for hire for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares within the said district, provided, farther, that the board may, from time to time an 3 for such period not exceeding five years and subject to such conditions as the board may impose, grant to any person the right to maintain, manage and operate motor of fiorse omnibus services or other services carrying passengers, at separate fares within the said district.

"We have included in the definition of services which the board may ran or grant to any person the right, to run vehicles which ply fot the conveyance of passengers at separate fares," states the report. "This is taken from clause 2 of the regulations for public vehicles under the New South Wales Metropolitan Traffic Act, 1900. It is designed to meet ttie competition, harmful but uncontrolled, under the existing New Zealand definition of motor omnibus, of motor ears with a carrying capacity up to seven passengers. These may and do meet ferry steamers and other transport services at their termini and carry passengers at separate fares.

By-Laws. "The Transport Board should be granted power to make by-laws and regulations governing the operation of transport facilities, and all matters and things that affect the comfort and convenience of bus and tram passengers, and the safety, fairness and efficiency of such services in the district. This will include an express power to impose a penal fare' on omnibuses to protect tramway revenue. The board shall have no jurisdiction over traffic control in the territories of the various local bodies comprising its district from the point of view of the safety and comfort of the general body of citizens as users of the streets and roads, these matters and the question of co-ordination and uniformity in the relative by-laws being left to the central Government and the local authorities as at present. ''If the recrt'mmendation that the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, shall no longer apply within the district after the board is constituted is adopted two results must receive attention: — (a) A new licensing authority must Ik? appointed for the remaining portion of the No. 1 Licensing District; and (b) omnibus services operating from without the ♦ !•• f -n running into the said disir et win on such journeys be running fr'fm/it' ei " •*'■* A(t ail(l P®>*tly freed from its provisions.

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It is recommended that the board shall take over as a going concern as from April I, 1928, the tramway and motor omnibus services of the City Council, with all the assets, rights and equipment, on the basis of the city's tramway department balance-sheet as on March 31, 1928, adopting all transactions and all fluctuations and changes in assets and liabilities in the meantime, and shall indemnify the City Council in respect of loan and other indebtedness of the tramways department and shall assume the benefit of all sinking fund investments to date and the burden of future payments in respec€ of loan capital and interest thereon and all sinking fund instalments.

"The true intent and end of the foregoing statement- of powers," the report says, "is that the board shall thereby, immediately on the vesting; in it of the tram and omnibus system theretofore owned and operated by the Auckland City Council, stand precisely in the same position as it would have been in if ai March 31, 1928, the board had been the proprietor of the undertaking in lieu, of the Auckland City Council and had as such proprietor produced the balancesheet."