MOTOR BUSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1926, Page 6

MOTOR BUSES

AUCKLAND APPLICATIONS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 26. At the Magistrate’s Court a motion was lodged before Mr M’Kean, S.M., on behalf of certain petitioners to have declared null and void a recent poll authorising the purchase by the Takapuna Borough of the undertaking of the Takapuna Tramway «xnd Ferry Company. The proceedings were adjourned in view of the lodgment of an appeal yesterday against Mr Justice Herdman’s decision that persons with residential qualifications could vote, and the fact that an appeal was being lodged by the council against Mr M’Kean’s own judgment for the defendant in the prosecution of the proprietor of the Yellow Buses for running from Devonport to Takapuna without a license. Objection by proprietors of motor bus services to competition on the part of the City Council buses was made to the No. 1 Licensing Authority. Mr L. Keys wrote objecting to the City Council running services from the Remuera terminus to Meadowbank Road and Purewa cemetery, on the ground that this represented unnecessary competition with his St. Helier’s Bay service. He expressed the opinion that the council bus service was not paying and said it was not fair to him, seeing that he had catered for the people in that area and had refrained from interfering with the council’s business along the tram route. Consideration was deferred. The Passenger Transport Company objected to the City Council beinggranted a license to run buses to Ellerslie. Mr E. J. Phelan said the people had asked for this service, with extra buses. He claimed that the private company should be compelled to run via Penrose. Representatives of the companysaid they did not object to the private buses running in the services, but if the municipal buses ran the private companies would be compelled to charge the penal fare of 2d. Miss Melville objected to the City Council running services outside its area. Mr J. Robertson said that if the Passenger Transport Company could give an adequate service, the City 7 Council should withdraw. Consideration of the application was deferred to enable more information to be obtained. A LYTTELTON SERVICE. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 26. The residents of Lyttelton are greatly concerned over the loss of the local motor, bus service to Corsair Bay and Rapaki. Until Monday last three motor buses plied to Corsair Bay and Rapaki. On Saturday the bus owners concerned were notified by the Christchurch City Council inspector that, as they carried passengers at fares for a single journey at less than 2/ per head, they came under the Motor Omnibus Regulations. They would be required to take out an insurance policy and submit the vehicles, to the Public Works Department for examination. The position now is that the bus owners have withdrawn their conveyances, finding that the financial requirements, as demanded by the law, would not allow them to run at a profit.