TRAFFIC FEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 10

TRAFFIC FEES.

I FIBE BOARD VEHICLES. WELLINGTON" CITY CLAIM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, this day. Submitting that ten motor vehicles operated by the Wellington Fire Board came under the Heavy Motor Vehicles Regulations, 1932,- the Wellington City Corporation claimed from the board in the Supreme Court a total of £280 14/ ii in heavy traffic fees. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, was on the Bench.

The question really turned on whether the vehicles were or were not private motor cars, stated Mr. O'Sliea, who appeared for the corporation. A motor car was a vehicle other than a motor cycle designed solely or principally for the carriage of persons not exceeding nine. The vehicles in question, he submitted, were designed as fire engines and for the carriage of fire apparatus.

Mr. Watson, for the board, said this was the first time a fire board had been asked to pay heavy, traffic fees, and submitted it was not the intention of the regulations that fire boards should 'be liable. The vehicles, he said, were private motor cars principally designed for the carriage of passengers, that was, the personnel of the fire brigade. It would be a fai - cical situation, counsel added, if fire engines came under the heavy traffic regulations. There would be hundreds, of miles of road they would be debarred from using and they would have to put up with many ridiculous restrictions. (Proceeding.)