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PRIVATE TRANSPORT COMPANY PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR GOVERNMENT PA WELLINGTON. Mar. 25. The full Court of Appeal gave judgment to-day in the case concerning the Minister of Railways v. the Hawke’s Bay Motor Company heard on September 24, 1948, and relating to the preference of the New Zealand Railways Road Service over private transport companies to be granted licences to operate new passenger transport services. The court held that the preference of the Minister of Railways exfended only to routes over the whole of which there was no existing transport services and did not extend to routes in which part was already covered by an existing transport service. The court further held that the Minister had no absolute right to be granted licences over new routes, and such licences could be refused if the Transport Appeal Authority considered that passenger transport services on that route were not necessary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 9
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149APPEAL UPHELD Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 9
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