COMMUNITY BUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 13

COMMUNITY BUSES

FURTHER PROSECUTIONS SOCIAL CLUB CHARGED • QUESTION’ OF LICENCES DURTHER charges against drivers of community buses were heard in the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Mr. Hall Skelton, counsel for Albert Edward Ivor, who was charged with driving a motor omnibus without a licence, pleaded guilty on behalf of his client. In the case of Raymond E. Parkinson, who was charged with being an unlicenced driver of a motor omnibus, Mr. Hall Skelton submitted Parkinson’s vehicle was not a motor'omnibus, but a motor-coach. The traffic manager for the club said when he applied last year to the Auckland City Cauncil for licences for his buses his application was refused. Mr. Hall Skelton held that the Motor Vehicles Act 1924 and the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act of 1926 were in conflict. . Mr. Hunt reserved his decision in this .case. Mr. J. J. Sullivan pleaded guilty on behalf of his clients Sutcliffe and Holliday, and asked for leniency as their vehicles had been withdrawn from service following Mr. Cutten’s decision. A charge of failing to pay heavy traffic licence fees as the owner of a motor-lorry was preferred against James Stenberg, secretary of the Mount Eden Transit and Social. Club. Mr. Skelton contended that the Auckland City Council was trying a sleight of hand trick in that formerly the club was convicted for running buses, it was now said to be using lorries. This charge was dismissed. The club was further charged with plying buses for hire within the city boundaries although not licensed to run in the city. (Proceeding.)