ATTACKS ON BY-LAWS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 7

ATTACKS ON BY-LAWS

TAXI FARES AT CHRISTCHURCH.

SUPREME COURT APPLICATION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night.

That new by-laws governing taxi fares at Christchurch were invalid was the contention made by Mr. F. D. Sargent, counsel for three men prosecuted for breaches of the by-laws in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Mr. Sargent asked for an adjournment so that he could ask the Supreme Court to quash the bylaws and this was granted. Mr. Sargent said he proposed to ask the court to quash various sections of the by-laws bn the grounds that they were unreasonable or repugnant? to the laws of New Zealand, or unlawful restriction of trade, or ultra vires. There were different grounds applying to the different sections.

The sections which he proposed to attack were those requiring license fees to be paid for motor-vehicles other than those plying for hire, those fixing minimum fares for the carriage of passengers by motor-vehicles other than those plying for hire and that fixing 150 as the maximum number of licenses for motorcabs.

Mr. Sargent also said he would contend that the council had at a special meeting to confirm the by-law materially altered it by amendment.