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RAILWAY ROAD SERVICES

ALLEGED BREACH OF REGULATIONS From Our Own Reporter

January 31.

Criticism of the practice of Railway Road Services’ buses in picking |up passengers for races at Washdyke I was expressed by the omnibus enjgineer to the Timaru City Council (Mr L. K. Scott) in a report to a meeting of the council last evening. “A most unsatisfactroy feature of the race traffic was the apparently deliberate flouting of the regulations by the Road Services buses,” said Mr Scott. “In spite of the fact that the departrrfent appealed against the city ccuncil having a licence to run race buses, tne department’s buses deliberately picked up city council bus passengers from our bus stops in Stafford -street and Evans street.

“Actions such as these.” continued Mr Scott, “can find expression only in the term ‘hi-jacking,’ and had our buses retaliated by picking up passengers from the Road Services depot in Sefton street, the effect on the orderly community would have been disastrous. I canriot too strongly condemn the wrongful action of the Road Services, and I feel that this matter calls for further action in order that a repetition be prevented. If the Railways Department desires picking up points in Stafford street it has the right of application to the Transport Authority, as provided in the regulations. Why did they not take the correct steps to apply?” The report was received without comment.

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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

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RAILWAY ROAD SERVICES Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

RAILWAY ROAD SERVICES Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 6

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