TRANSPORT LICENSES

Evening Star, Issue 21007, 22 January 1932, Page 2

TRANSPORT LICENSES

PERSONNEL OF CENTRAL AUTHORITY

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, January 21

The Minister of Transport (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) announced to-day that the following had been appointed members of the Central Licensing Authority in accordance with the terms of the Transport Licensing Act of last session :

Mr JUSTICE FRAZER, President of the Arbitration Court, chairman. Mr S. S. ALLEN, solicitor, of Morrinsvillc, formerly Administrator of Western Samoa. Mr H. B. S. JOHNSTONE, farmer,, of Otaio, Waimate, ex-chair-man of the Waimate County Council.

The personnel of the nine district licensing authorities will he announced in a few days. Broadly speaking, the Central Licensing Authority will be a co-ordi-nating body, which will have wider powers in relation to general questions of control than will bo vested in the district boards. Its members will be appointed for three year’s, and they may bo reappointed. The control of services within specified districts will bo carried out by the licensing board concerned, but the Central Authority will issue licenses for services operating over an area extending into two or more districts. In considering an application for a license the Central Authority will take into account any representations made to it by a board through any part of whose district the proposed service will run. In other ways the i Central Authority will work in bringing about a co-ordination of services, and its functions as prescribed by the Act will form an important part of the administration of the new law.