TRANSPORT LICENSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 10

TRANSPORT LICENSING

DISTRICT AUTHORITIES

FOUR APPOINTMENTS

The appointment is announced of four district licensing authorities under the Transport Licensing Amendment Act passed recently. The new appointees will take the places of the former Central Licensing Authorities, and will have power to grant passenger service licences and to exercise jurisdiction in respect of transport affairs under Ministerial control.

The four authorities, who have been appointed by the Minister of Transport (the Hon. K. Semple) with the concurrence of Cabinet are:

Mr. E. Phelan, Auckland. Mr. Philip Skoglund, Town Clerk of Stratford. Mr. T. H. Langford, Temuka. Mr. Victor Raines, Invercargill.

The appointments indicate the respective geographical representation.

Mr. Ehelan, who is well known in local body administration in Auckland, will control licensing in the Auckland Province; Mr. Skoglund will have charge of the southern part of the North Island, including Wellington; Mr. Langford will control Canterbury and Westland, and Mr. Raines, a solicitor, Otago and Southland.

The Minister stated yesterday that he would make an official announcement about the appointments within the next few days. He was satisfied, he said, that the four men appointed would "fill the bill." All the men appointed were of wide general experience, had a sound knowledge of the districts which they would administer, were 100 per cent, loyal to the policy of the Government, and were sympathetic towards the transport situation.

Mr. P. Skoglund, who is Town Clerk i of Stratford, gained a knowledge of accountancy and banking during the six years he spent when a young man in the service of the National Bank, | Stratford. He had previous banking experience in Westland and South Canterbury. In 1911 he became Town Clerk. In the same year he became president of the New Zealand Institute of Town Clerks. He has had considerable sporting, experience, having been honorary secretary to the Taranaki Rugby Union from 1905 to 1919, and president of the Stratford Bowling Club for a number of years. He congested the Stratford seat in Labour's I interests at the last election.

Mr. T. H. Langford was born in Christchurch forty-five years ago, and has resided in the Temuka district since 3911. with the exception of several years spent at the war and about two years when he was in business as a storekeeper at Fendalton. He served jin the Great War as a stretcher-bearer on Gallipoli and in France, and was badly wounded at Ploegstert in 1917. ,He has taken an active part in most outdoor sports in the Winchester district. As a footballer he achieved prominence, having played as a South Island Rugby representative, and also for the New Zealand Division in France. He has also been closely connected with swimming activities. He unsuccessfully contested the Temuka seat as the Liberal candidate in 1922 End 1928, and was the Labour candidate for the seat at the last election. Mr. E. Phelan is a member of the Auckland Transport Board and the Auckland City Council. He was secretary of the Timber Workers' Union for many years. Mr. Raines is an Invercargill lawyer.

course, best known in his capacity as! Crown Prosecutor, although he enjoyed a considerable civil practice as well. As the senior Crown Prosecutor in New Zealand he was known from one end of New Zealand to the other, and on occasions his services were availed of for the conduct of criminal cases in other centres. Naturally of a cheerful disposition, despite the fact that in ' recent years he had not enjoyed the best of health, he was always considerate and helpful to junior members of the Bar. While carrying out his responsible and onerous duties with great care and diligence, he never j overstepped the bounds of absolute fairness, and never hesitated to produce facts which told in an accused person's favour. "He has borne his part in the ad-, ministration of justice in accordance with the best traditions of the Bar, I and no greater tribute than this can 1 be paid to any lawyer," J