BUSES AT DEVONPORT.
EXCESSIVE SPEED ALLEGED. A lively discussion arose at the Devonport Borough Council last evening, when it became known that a temporary license had been granted to a 'bus driver, despite a police report that the applicant had been defiant to the police" and had been fined 10s for a breach of the byelaws. • A heated pvguonent arose as to what constituted "defiance to the police." The Finance Committee recommended granting a license. The Mayor, Mr. T. Lamont, moved as an amendment, that the license be refused. A further amendment by Mr. A. Bartley ; to ; refer the matter to the traffic inspector, was heatedly opposed by the Mayor, but was carried on a show of hands.
'•"The 'buses are being driven like scalded cats," declared one member, when referring to the rate si which motorbuses were driven en the borough roads. Ho added, to the amusement of the council, that one man had been under medical attention for five days as the result of a bus drive at Devonport. It was resolved to call the attention of the police to the state of affairs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 10
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