TRANSPORT APPEALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 6

TRANSPORT APPEALS.

. i-l ♦ ' .RATTERS BEFORE THE BOARD. SEVERAL ADJOURNMENTS/ Th« Transport Appeal Board iat yesterday morning, the chairman, Mr, Justice l Frwtw, presiding. Sitting with him weir#* Messrs, A, Thompson, L. B. Campbell. B. H. Boiler and G. Grey Campbell. Appeal* were lodged by the Takapunn •Trajnways and Ferry Company, Ltd., and Takapuna Borough Council (Mr. Lowry) against the granting of a licence to Ernest Eady (Mr. Gaze) to conduct a motorbna service from Brown's Bay to Devonport. It was reported that in the ease of the ferry company an agreejaent tod already been reached on the Hm that Eady should neither pick up nor set down 10 the Takapuna Borough any paas?np;erii sxoept those from Brown'u Bay or other points north of Takapuna. In view of altered condition# since th» appeal# were laid, applications w«rs vesterday made and granted lor thrnr withdrawal from the jurisdiction of the hoard. They will now be submitted to No. 2 Licensing Authority for settlement, Leonard John Keys (Mr. V. B. Meredith) appealed against* the granting of a hecnce to the Auckland City Council U> ran a motor service from Kemuera tram termmus to M««dowbank Bond, and sub antted a farther appeal against the fares penalty impose! upon his fit. Helient BavAucJuand service, Mr. Justira Fraier said (hat tfes appeals arow> from the one service—the imposition rLiti*PPlyl ly C ° ua i 9 oi a P* n » [ f»re o« appellant because the corpora!kin at time* ran buses over the route. Mr. Meredith, for appellant, said tha< tha chsef ground for his client's objection wm that a whole fleet of Ka»V buses ws < b«ng I*«#vily penalised solely on account ~ , competition of on* corporation vefcjcla. It was not so much that appellant objected to the competition of thihe penalties m posed for its protection unwarranted aoa unjust. On tho application of Mr. J. Stanton, atf solicitor, then* matters w«re ad ' a* aJso was aw W thr Paawnger Transport Company, Ltd, (Mr IbJ» * «**"»t th * graritirjc of a l»cenc« to the corporation to ran a "motor WW service from tho tram terminus, Hnr of .Ens, to Meadowbank load, Bemoer-