TRANSPORT LICENCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 6

TRANSPORT LICENCES

EX-SERVICEMEN'S NEEDS REQUEST TO No. 4 AUTHORITY A request that the No. 4 Licensing Authority might consider restricting the issue of ancillary users’ licences so that more returned servicemen might be absorbed in the transport industry, was made at a sitting of the Authority yesterday. The point was raised during the hearing of an application for an ancillary users’ licence from a contracting firm. Mr R. A. E. Smith, representing the Rehabilitation Department, asked the Authority to consider the fact that the granting of ancillary user licences in such cases might prejudice the chances of a returned serviceman being established in the industry. The amount of work that would be available for the holders of a number of such licences, he said, might be sufficient to provide a living for a returned man who desired to become an operator. “ It has been represented to me several times that such ancillary user licences should be refused, with a view to enabling an ex-serviceman to undertake the work with a licence for hire or reward,” said Mr V. Raines, the Authority. “ I consider, however, that it would be going too far to adopt such a course. I am sure that employers would engage returned men whenever possible, all other considerations being equal, but .the Authority cannot dictate to any firm what carrier it should employ. I cannot refuse a firm a licence to operate a service and then issue one to an ex-serviceman to do that work for hire.” The application was granted. Licences Granted The following new ancillary user licences were granted:—D. T. I. Allison, wood contractor, Taieri Mouth; J. B. Birtles bottle gatherer, Balclutha; P. J. Bray (Mr W. McAlevey), firewood contractor, Taieri; E. E. Edwards, pig farmer, Fairfield; Walter Ellis and Co., building contractors, Dunedin; J. R. Murdoch, bricklaying contractor, Ravensbourne; New Zealand Highway Constructors, Ltd. (Mr F. M. Hanan), Dunedin; G. Rackley, marine dealer, Dunedin; S. 3. Smith (Mr J. B. Deaker), firewood contractor, Brighton; T. C. Smith, wood and coal merchant, Dunedin. Amendments to existing licences were granted, in the following applications: R Ellison, firewood contractor, Otakou- G. Scurr and Co., coal deliveries, East Taieri; W. Waldron, firewood contractor, Dunedin; G. Ireland, wood and coal contractor, Evansdale. Amendments to goods services licences were granted to the following:—m Stevenson, Ltd., Dunedin; G. c. O’Callaghan, F. W. Gray, Abbotsford. A new goods service licence was issued to T. Mclntyre to conduct a carrying business between Dunedin and Port Chalmers. An application for the transfer of a licence from W. E. Marshall to D. H. Boyes (Mr C. H. Stevens), in respect to the same route, was ariiended to delete the reference to Port Chalmers, and Boyes was issued with a carriers’ licence for the Dunedin of goods service licences were granted as follows:—J. P. Kane to J. P. Kane ,and G. F. Shiel, Dunedin; J. Wright to E. H. Wright, Mosgiel; W. J. Olsen (Mr G. T. Baylee) to E. J. Little, Karitane. Bus Timetable Amended The Minister of Railways was granted permission to amend the bus timetable on the Dunedin-Taieri Mouth route. Mr H. F. Alcock, Taieri Mouth, was granted a new taxi-cab licence. The licence of the Texas Company (Aust.), Ltd. was reviewed to permit the name being changed to the Caltex Oil Company, Ltd.