BUS SERVICES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 3

BUS SERVICES.

APPEAL UPHELD. . Per Press Association. HAMILTON, March 27. The Hamilton Borough Council’s regulations for bus services between Cambridge and Frankton Junction have been the subject of dispute during the past year, and to-day the Transport Appeal Board, Mr Justice Frazer presiding, upheld an appeal by Walter Trethowen against the refusal of the Hamilton Council to grant him a license for this run. The dispute was largely between rival services; the question also arose as to whether the Hamilton authorities were justified in compelling Cambridge passengers to change buses in Hamilton and take town buses for the short journey to Frankton to connect with trains. The board sat at Hamilton and Cambridge, where the Mayor and others gave evidence that Cambridge people were inconvenienced under the present arrangement. In granting Trethowen’s claim for a license, the Court ruled that the Cambridge services should take only through passengers to and from Frankton railway station and should not compete with the local Hamilton run. The fact that the rival bus company was not giving a full service -at the time of Trethowen’s application influenced the board in Trethowen’s favour.