TRANSPORT LICENSING

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 3

TRANSPORT LICENSING

DISTRICT AUTHORITIES. ANNOUNCEMENT IN A FEW DAYS. WELLINGTON, February 15. Within the next few days the Minister of Transport, Right Hon. J. (j. Coates, will announce the names of the appointees that are to be set up in accordance with the transport legislation passed last session. There are ten such authorities, each of three members, to be appointed. Invitations tt, accept appointment have already been sent out to prospective appointees by Mr Coates, and immediately the replies are received the personnel of the authorities will be announced. Tbe activities of these ten district licensing authorities will in the main be confined to the rurai areas. Licensing authorities for the four .metropolitan areas are the Auckland Transport Board, Wellington City Council, Christchurch City Council and Dunedin City Council. ' The district authorities will be statutory bodies and charged with the responsibility of licensing work in connection with services that run solely in their respective districts. As soon as services run from one district into another the licensing of them becomes the function of the Central Licensing Authority. This authority has already been set up, his Honour Mr Justice Frazer being the chairman.