CARRIER LICENCES
POSITION OF RETURNED MEN O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day
"Unless I can see that a man is going to make a reasonable living and will not be taking it away from existing operators, I will not grant a licence," observed Mr. P. O. Skoglund, No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority, when a returned soldier sought permission to operate as a carrier in Palmerston North. Mr. Skoglund said he would not accept the responsibility of granting a new vehicle authority to a returned soldier who might fail because of lack of business. The application should be accompanied by a recommendation from the local Rehabilitation Committee. If there were a carrier in Palmerston North only just making a living, it would be unfair to take business away from him, even if it were given to a returned soldier. There must be evidence of entirely new business for the applicant. Returned soldiers would have "first pickings" in a forthcoming review of licences.
Mr. S. McDowall, for the Manawatu branch of the Road Transport Alliance, said there was a tendency now for firms to put on their own trucks or acquire larger trucks, and that worked against the rehabilitation of returned soldiers who wished to do carrying.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 9
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