BUS REGULATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 4

BUS REGULATIONS.

USUAL FARES IN WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 10. Buses are being run in the city, the usual fares being charged. 1 There was some difference of opinion between Mr McDonald, manager of the Bus Co., and the Mayor (Mr C. B. Norwood) as to whether the council proposed to issue the license, provided the prescribed forms were filled in by the company. Tlie. Mayor indicated that the finance committee was prepared to recommend the council to grant the license. “We are charging the usual fares, said Mr McDonald, “and will have to continue to do so till the council determines its policy on the question of licenses. I am not going to take out these ridiculous insurance policies until I know whether the license will be granted or not.” The Mayor, in reply, said the regulations were law, and must be complied with. AUCKLAND RESOLUTION. AUCKLAND, June 10. The City Council, sitting as a licensing authority under the motor bus regulations, carried a resolution regretting that the Government had passed fin to the local authorities, the onerous responsibility of determining which buses should be liable to the extra twopenny fare when the matter was really one for Government regulation, and should be determined by the Government.

HAMILTON SERVICES. HAMILTON, June 10. The Hamilton bus proprietors, after discussing the effect of the bus regulations regarding insurance, decided to carry on their services. One day’s cessation of the service had been proposed as a protest against the regulations, but it was resolved not to carry that out. Applications will be made to the Borough Council for temporary licenses for existing services. POSITION OF TAKAPUNA COUNCIL. AUCKLAND, June 10. For the present at any rate, the Takapuna Borough Council cannot function as a licensing authority under the motor omnibus regulations, Mr Justice Stringer" having granted an interim injunction against it. The grounds of the application which was made by the local bus proprietors were that the regulations arc ultra vires, and that the council as a licensing authority would have a bias against the buses.