TRANSPORT LICENSING AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 14

TRANSPORT LICENSING AFFAIRS

DESERVED DECISIONS GIVEN NO. 9 AUTHORITY No. 9 Transport Licensing Authority has given its decisions in a number of cases which were before it at its sitting in Dunedin earlier in the present month and in which decision was then reserved. PASSENGER LICENSES. The Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand Ltd. was granted a renewal of its license from Studholme Junction to Cromwell, with the right on Mondays to run from Studholme to Timaru on those days when there was no train running, subject to the condition that no passengers be picked up or set down on the route between a point five miles west of Waimate and Timaru, and that no passenger be carried on the return trip between Timaru and Studholme. The license of A. S. Clark, MahenoLake Ohau, was renewed on the same terms as last year. Hunter’s D.C.T. Motors wore granted a passenger license to run from Waitaki Hydro to Oamaru, subject to minor amendments.

The Mount Cook Tourist Company of New Zealand Ltd.’s application for ■a passenger .license for the QueenstownCromwell route was granted, with minor amendments in route.

The application of R. Wallace, Kai-tangata-Dunedin, was granted, subject to minor amendments to the fare.

South Road Services were granted a license to run from Dunedin to Clinton, subject to minor amendments to fares. J. Thompson, jun., was granted seasonal licenses for the Queenstown round trip and for Qnecnstown-Skip-pers. The application for a transfer of a passenger license from S. C. Knowles to Knowles Motors, Gleuorchy, was granted.

MAIL CONTRACTOR’S APPLICATION DECLINED.

A. J. Key, of Cromwell, made application for a goods service license and carriage of mails from Cromwell to Lowburn via Burnt Cottage road, returning on the opposite side of the river. .

The decision given was that the evidence before the authority seemed to show that this application was merely to enable, a postal contractor to transfer an unpayable or inconvenient portion or his postal contract. Apart from mail contract, there was nothing to justify the application, and an existing service was up to August,_ 1935, satisfactorily carrying out this service and was still running over the route. The authority W'as not satisfied that the license was necessary or desirable. The application was declined. GOODS SERVICES LICENSES. J. H. Jones, Waitahuna, who applied for an area license for carting goods in the vicinity of Waitahuna and Lawrence and also the right to carry out county and public works’ contracts in eight counties, was granted a lice’nse to operate with two-vehicle authorities. J. H. Soper, of Lawrence, applied for a goods service license to operate a one-vehicle authority within a 20-mile radius of. Lawrence and Waitahuna railway station, the decision of the board being that the applicant did not start- operations until after the passing of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, and therefore came into business with his eyes open. There , were a number of other carriers operating in this area. The applicant, on his own evidence, never operated in the greater paid of the area applied for. The applicant had not submitted his particulars of his financial position. On the evidence before it the authority was not satisfied that the license was necessary or desirable in the public interest. The application was therefore declined. The application of M'Kay’s Service Stores, Opljir, for an amendment to increase the carrying capacity of its vehicle authority from 15cwt to two tons was declined. H. E. Fry (Waikouaiti) and J. R. Hughes (Milton) were granted a renewal of their goods services’ licenses.