GOODS SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 10

GOODS SERVICES

NOVEL POINT RAISED AUCKLAND-HAMILTON ROUTE NECESSITY FOR LICENCES CHAIN OF EXEMPTED AREAS

A contention that under regulations which came into force on July 18 a carrier could operate over the whole length of the Great South Road between Auckland and Hamilton without having to secure a goods service licence was submitted in the Papakura Magistrate's Court yesterday. McClymont's Transport, Limited, was proceeded against by Frederick Jones, traffic inspector, on a charge of failing to produce a vohiclo authority when asked to do so for one of its lorries carrying on a goods service between Hamilton and Auckland.

Evidence had been given by the traffic inspector that he stopped the lorry near Drury on August 11 and asked the driver to show him the vehicle authority, which should have been on the lorry, in terms of the goods service licence. The driver could not comply. Effect of Regulations

Mr. A. C. Stevons, counsel for the defendant firm, put forward the novel defence that there was now no need for an operator between Hamilton and Auckland to have a licence and therefore to produce a vehicle authority. He read the regulation exempting carriers from having to obtain licences for carrying within a six-mile radius of the principal post office in any borough or town district. Counsel said that the whole of the road between the city an( l Hamilton came within circles drawn on a sixmile radius from the post offices in boroughs and towns en route or near by. In any case, there was an exemption area from Auckland to .Papakura and beyond that the road came within circles drawn at the radius specified from the post offices in Papakura town district, Pukekohe borough, Tuakau town district, Mercer town district, Te Kauwhata town district, Huntly borough, Ngaruawahia borough and Hamilton borough. Survey Maps Required Mr. E. J. Prendergast, for the prosecution, said he had not yet had time to have the circles drawn on survey maps, having received instructions to appear only an hour and a-half before the case was called. Mr. Stevens produced an A.A. map showing the circles. The magistrate, Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., said the testimony of survey maps or surveyors would be necessary and he adjourned the case to permit of survey evidence being brought.