TRANSPORT OF GOODS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 13

TRANSPORT OF GOODS

MOTOR SERVICES LICENSED AUTHORITY SITTING IN TIMARU The session of District No. 8 Transport Licen ing Authority, which is being held in Timaru, was continued yesterday before Messrs J. D. Hutchison (chairman), G. S. Cray (Timaru) and M. Bethell (North Canterbury). Mrs M. Kelberg (Pleasant Point) applied for continuous licenses for two vehicles. Mr H. L. Warsaw, for the applicant, stated that a new truck had been bought, which the applicant intended to use for continuous work. The license was granted. On behalf of Noah Sherratt (Geraldine), Mr .I. A. Knight applied for a continuous licence to cart wool from Geraldine to Christchurch. It was stated the applicant had been carting in Geraldine for 30 years and desired a continuous licence to enable him to take wool for his clients to the Christchurch wool sales. The February sale in Timaru had been cut out for next season, and Geraldine clients had approached Mr Sherratt with a view of having their wool carted to the Christchurch sales. . Competition With Railway. The application was strenuously opposed by Mr E. S. Brittenden, representing the Railway Department, who said there were already too many carriers operating on the GeraldineChristchurch road, parallel, and in direct competition, to the railway. He suggested that the applicant could cooperate with the Department by carting wool from Geraldine county to the rail. Decision was reserved. D. G. Rutherford .(Geraldine) was granted a licence to operate a mail service between Peel Forest and Rangitata. For E. Dobson (Temuka), Mr L. M. Inglis made application for the renewal of an existing licence. Under his present licence, Dobson was permitted two trips a week to Smithfleld with dairy produce from the Clandeboye Dairy Factory, but he desired an extension of the number of trips and also authority to run to Timaru. Several oi his clients required kerosene and other material from Timaru and if he were permitted to come into Timaru on the days on which he came to Smithfleld, it would be of great convenience to the dairy farmers. Mr Brittenden stated that the Department had no objection to Dobson carting cheese to Smithfleld, but he did object to him being allowed to come into Timaru. Decision was reserved. Decision also was reserved in a case in which A. Smith (Raukapuka) applied for an area license for Geraldine county, north of the railway, and within a radius of seven miles of the Rangitata Bridge in Ashburton county, a route license to Mt. Somers for coal only, and a seasonal route license to carry wool from Geraldine to Timaru Reserved Decision Given. Decision was given in regard to the application of the Waimate Transport Co., Ltd., —r a route license between Timaru and Waimate, to run two days a week, and for a license from Makikihi to Hunter Hills, and from there to Hakataramea and down to the bounda:j of the Waitaki river and the sea. Doth applications were granted, applicant also being authorised to operate in Hakataramea Valley for goods from mercantile firms in Waimate to clients in Hakataramea Valley. Licenses Renewed. Renewals of existing licences were t anted as follows: —H. A. Davison (Pleasant Point), D. S. C. Watson (Waimate), H. S. Ryder (Fairlie) with the exclusion of the main PukakiHermitage road, G. C. Martin (Fairlie), W. A. Gudsell (Winchester), W. Barwood (Fairlie), A, W. Willetts (Waimate) , W. J. A. Phillips (Fairlie), J. Burns (Temuka), A. Hawthorn (Cave), C. Duncan (Temuka), P. McPherson (Temuka), G. F. Walker and Son (Temuka), W. J. Dick (Fairlie), B. W. Patrick (Hilton), F. V, Allan (Fairlie), A. B. Haywood (Geraldine) and R. Martin (Temuka).

G. A. Paterson, Temuka, was granted a renewal of his license, with the exception that one trip a day only would be permitted between May and November.

H. Dixon, Fairlie, was granted an extension of his license from Fairlie to Cricklewood.

The application of M. H. Saunders, Fairlie, was granted in respect of the Mackenzie county to and from the rail-head at Fairlie, with the exception of the Mt. Cook -oad west of the Haldon sign post. Applicant was granted the right to carry not more than two passengers in connection with the rural mail service, subject to conditions of fitness.

W. Rollinson, Albury, was granted a renewal of his license. In regard to the route license, applicant was granted four authorities, only two of which are to be used on the route to Timaru.