GOODS SERVICE TO DUNEDIN

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21329, 23 November 1934, Page 9

GOODS SERVICE TO DUNEDIN

—♦— TRANSPORT BY ROAD LICENSING AUTHORITY'S JUDGMENT At the sitting yesterday of the No. 8 Transpurt Licensing Authority reserved judgment was given on the application, heard at Timaru, by W. i Boag for the renewal of his goods I service license between Christchurch 1 and Dunedin and for an increase from j one vehicle and three return trips a i week to three vehicles and daily trips, j Since October, 1931. the judgment j slated, the applicant had been carry- iing on a service between Chrislchuren j and Dunedin, one vehicle at first, the second vehicle from June, 1932, and the third from April, 1933. If, as they were told, the Central Licensing Authoiity ruled that the applicant could not bring himself within the automatic provisions of the act, they Uhe No. 8 Licensing Authority) would, with respect, nevettheless take a dnferent view, but the point did not I seem to them of .prime importance, j I because the license was, in fact, I granted, whether under the automatic or the non-automatic sections. | The evidence as to what had happened since the matter was first dealt, with by the Central Licensing Authority satisfied the No. 8 authority that the applicant had not been able to j carrv on a satisfactory service running j on alternate days only. He had a con- | siderable number of customers, and a good deal of the merchandise carried was urgent, and their view was that they must m. >v either refuse the license altogether or increase the number of trips that the applicant might run. Their view was that the service was entitled to continue, because the service had been carried on for a good length of time with a good measure of public support which showed that the service if not necessary m the public interest was at any rate desirable in the public interest. The license, therefore, would be renewed, and some measure of increase in trips should be given. : "There must be a restriction of the service, paralleling as it docs a good j railway service, and we are not satis- ; •.ed that moro than one trip daily each , way is necessary. The application for three vehicle authorities will not be j allowed, but two vehicle authorities | will be allowed—one of 3 tons 4c wl j and the other 3 tons lOcwt. If the ap- I plicant retains his third vehicle lie ; ' mav use it only as a stand-by or re- , placement when one of the others is oil' the road. He will be restricted io , one truck each way daily. There will be a condition that he do not carry goods from any point south of Timaru . on his way to Dunedin, or to any , point to the south of Timaru on the way to Christchurch. The heenswould expire on May 31. 193.). "The evidence shows that the appli- ' cant, particularly in the last two or three months, has not complied with \ liic law. and has made trips without ! authority of any license.'' the judg- , ' inent stated. "We must warn him that ; 1 failure to carry out the terms of the j license is a very serious matter, for : which a license may be revoked. "We do not think that the fact that j the Transport Co-ordination Hoard \ upheld the decision of the Central \ Licensing Authority in restricting th" j applicant to return trips a weak i > when the matter crane before it, noces- | sarilv means that the board would , lakcfhc same view of the matter now, having legard to the evidence available as to matter.-- subsequent to its ! hearing in April last."