BY-LAW DEFIED.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1925, Page 1

BY-LAW DEFIED.

REGULATION OF TRAFFIC. AUCKLAND, April 20. In defiance of the City Council's new by-law. which prohibits ntotorbuscs in Queen St., and came into force to-day. practically all vehicles owned by the various private companies continued throughout the day to ply for hire within the prohibited area. Tile main street presented the usual congested scene, with 'buses running up and down, the only vehicles that were missing 'being the City Council’s own conveyances, the Ivoliimarama services and a tew others which ran from their termini. From 7.30 a.in. traffic inspectors were posted at the corner of Wellesley St. and at the Customs St. intersection, and they had not been there many minutes before they realised thev were going to have a busy morning'. Jt was quite surprising the large number of idlers who had at that early hour found it, convenient to gather at Customs' St. corner to watch developments.

Keeping their usual time-tables the ’buses came on the scene, their drivers obviously ignoring the by-law. probable- acting under instructions from their employers, and no doubt emltolxlened by the knowledge that the new rule was to be contested in the Supremo Court. The inspectors immediately exercised their authority, and. as each 'bus came along, it was held up and the names and addresses or the drivers, together with the license numbers of vehicles and other necessary details, were entered up in official note books, which filled rapidly.

Those, drivers who were interrogated by the officers, and who, despite instructions. signified their intention of staying in Queen St. were recorded as having committed the further offence of disobcyi::.: the b.spe-tor’s orders. "While 'these opera turns were in progy.o the •Her- at the •or nor cheered and jeered intermittently, their sympathy being obviously with the ’bus men.