KELBURN TRAM CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 91, 18 April 1945, Page 6

KELBURN TRAM CASE

SETTLEMENT OF DISTRICT

«. question of competition between the Wellington City Corporation's bus services and the service provided by the cable cars of the Kelburne and Karon Tramway Co., Ltd., was further discussed in the Supreme Court today, the third day of the hearing of the originating summons brought before the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Blair). The company asks for a declaration as to whether the bus services are in breach of the Municipal Corporations Act and whether they are maintained pursuant to a passenger service licence granted under the Transport Licensing Act. Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson appears for the City Corporation. Mr. Stevenson, who continued to deal with the affidavits put forward submitted that the cable cars with the ordinary tramway service passing the Kelburn Viaduct, had enabled Kelburn to be fully settled. That transport it was contended was quite adequate and satisfactory. As far back as just after the last war settlement was very rapid and reached the stage where sections were unobtainable. !„ 1926 ( W n en ?h2 Corporation bus services started) the P°P«? 10" of Kelburn was 3619 and UY l9£ 6 _ il + v/as 389 Van increase of only 27;> in ten years. The Transport Licensing Act orovided that where necessary the licen sing authority should fix bus fares at east 2d higher than tram fares when buses passed through an area wholW or partially served by trams, but the Corporation charged 3d. the same as forfH b be C*T ' to Glas S°^ Stree tai d s? toiSSet sss? could ride **" (Proceeding.)

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