LICENSING OF TRANSPORT
Minister Firm On Change It had been thought that the best interests of all sections of the community would be served by a uniform system of transport licensing throughout the country, and this had led the Government to go ahead with the abolition of metropolitan licensing authorities, said the Minister of Transport (Mr McAlpine) in reply to the City Council’s pretest against the ciiange.
The major local bodies in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin also controlled transport services, so that public passenger bus operators were judges in their own cause, Mr McAlpine said. This situation did not exist in Christchurch, but he was sure that if there was an independent arbiter, a licensing authority appointed by the Minister, the council would agree that it would ensure that not only was justice done, but that it would seem to be done.
So that the Christchurch Transport Board would not be unduly restricted, and could operate with as much freedom as possible, commensurate with the public interest, Mr McAlpine said he proposed to give the board, along with other public bodies operating passenger transport, a considerable measure of autonomy in day-to-day operations not hitherto available.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30050, 7 February 1963, Page 8
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