BUSES AND TRUCKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 12

BUSES AND TRUCKS

LICENCES SOUGHT

CENTRAL AUTHORITY

A number of applications for new licences and for variations of licences wcro considered at sittings of the Central Transport Licensing Authority yesterday and today. Colonel Sir Stephen Allen presided, and with him was Mr. H. B. S. Johnstone. An application from Eyan and Co., Lower Hutt, for a licence to carry goods between Napier and Wellington was refused. . Tho Cunningham Carrying Company (Wellington) was granted two licences for horse floats and two for lorries between Wellington, New Plymouth, and Napier, subject to conditions proscribed as to deviations from main roads, carriage of passengers, and number of trips. Freight charges are to be considered further. Tho Wellington-Eaetihi Transport Company asked for permission to run between Wellington and Eaetihi, or, if that permission was declined, between Wellington and Taihape. Objection was made to the carriage of goods to and from Marton, and Mr. W. Schierning, representing the Bailway Department, maintained that the service was not necessary. Decision was reserved, pending the hearing of applications at Wanganui. J. O'Brien and Co., Wellington, applied for a goods transport licence for a heavy four-wheeled vehicle, which the company proposes to convert into a sixwheeler for the carriage of racehorses and atud stock. It was stated in support of the application that the service would not compete with tho railways and that the alteration of the vehicle would not enable more stock to be carried, but would reduce the axle loading. The licence was granted, subject to conditions as to deviations and the usual clauses regarding attendants. ' No passengers may bo carried. PASSENGER TRANSPORT. An application was made by Mr. S. A. Crichton for permission to reduce the fare for the Wellingftm-Johnson-ville service, and also for the elimination of the 7 p.m. bus and of one Friday evening run from Wellington. It was explained that the fare reduction was actually made some months ago when the City Council ordered the removal of the city terminus from the Central Library to Lambton, reducing the bus run by about a mile. It was represented on behalf of tho Eailway Department that tho reduced fares (5s per weekly ticket) made tho service more competitive with the railways (4s 3d for a 12-trip ticket). The application was granted in both respects. Bus services between Wellington and Titahi Bay were again discussed in the hearing of an application from Mr. S. A. • Crichton, Johnsonville, for a licence to run a special service on Saturdays and Sundays for the carriage of golfers. A service of this kind is already being given, under a temporary licence, and tho application was for a permanent licence with a slight variation. Decision was given this morning in. favour of the applicant, subject to the adjustment of time-tables to speed limits, the-limitation of the number of vehicles to one per trip each way, and no passengers to be picked up between Johusonville and Titahi Bay on the outward journey or on the inward journey between the two places. An application by J. G. Heron (Economic Transport Co.) for a licence to carry goods between Wellington and Napier was refused. E. V. Marriott was granted an area licence for tho carriage of goods south of a line between Napier and Now Plymouth and inclusive of both towns.