ANOTHER PROTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 10

ANOTHER PROTEST

ADMINISTERING BUS REGULATIONS

GHBISTCHUBCH CITY . COUN"CtL 'S

POSITION.

(By Telegraph.) .----^ (Special to the "Evening Post.")' CHEISTCHUBCH, This'^ Day.'•"

Discussing the bus regulations^- iho ' lyttelton Times" states that: \while the Minister has justified the ..placing of the cost of administering the regulations on the Auckland City-Gotaeil by stating that the council owns- tho trams .and receives- a percentagfr-'of the license fees> no such posiffon obtains in Christchurch.' It will b'e'interesting to ; says ''The Time*;" how the authorities will aUempt'.to justify the placing of these important duties and the cost incurred on tho Christchurch City Council, for it does' not administer'the tramway systemj Imd has been mado tho licensing authority for a district which goes far beyonil the" city boundaries. Proceeding^''iindfet the regulations might involve thfr licensing authority in costly law suits.—No provision has been niade for lneetiig the 'cost of any appeal board' constituted Tinder the ■ authority of regulations, and.. if local bodies which' h'avte been made v^ .'.ting authoritibs'kre called upon to bear the expense; 'nothingis more sure than that the.Government will not have heard the-last/of the long series of protests which hay: marked this attempt to govern by i' gulation. ■ - ■ ' :\' ■