THE BUS WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19784, 8 May 1926, Page 21

THE BUS WAR.

CARGILL'S CORNER INCIDENT.

Now ihnt the Exhibition is over tho famous bus warfare between tho hosts of toe Cn v Corporation and the army of private owners is practically a thing of the past. However an echo of that stirring struggle for public patronage «as heard before Mr LI, W. Bundle, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when n vaunt; private bus driver, William Cecil Hope (Mr A. C. Hanlon) was charged with negligently driving an omnibus at Cargill’s Corner on .»pril 6. Edward Francis Mason, aged 16, said he was standing at Cargill s Corner at a quarter to 6 and April 6, and witnessed the incident. lie hoard horns blown and saw a private bus following a corporation bus up the road The corporation bus drew up and tho private bus ran into it. from (lie rear. It had been travelling about six vards behind the corporation bus "hen h was coming up the road. John Anthony Cunningham, bus driver in tho employ of the corporation, said he was on the Anderson's Ray run and shortly after passing the private bus bad drawn up on the side of the road, where lie was ceil men with from the rear. Senior Sergeant Quartermain; ' Was it vonr duty to follow that private bus all over the place that day:” Witness exchanged grins and a wink with defendant, staling that two private buses wore following him. “It was my duty to follow the private bus anywhere except on (he tram routes." lie added. Witness continued that after pulling np be felt, a slight bump. Defendant, and his brother got out of their bus one of them remarking that be hud “got" witness now ami desired to «end for the police. Pie was in tho wrong for not giving the signal to slop. , Mr Hanlon submitted that there w-ns no case to answei —the accident was probably due to the failure of the corporation bus driver to give the signal to stop. His Worship aid that the evidence d d not show nnv negligence on the part of defendant. The case was dismissed.