TRANSPORT LICENSES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19958, 16 November 1934, Page 5

TRANSPORT LICENSES

SECURITY OF TENURE WANTED By Telegraph —Press Association DUNEDIN, November 15. A claim that holders of licenses for motor passenger service were in constant fear that they might be ruined by the refusal of the renewal of their licenses and that they should be given greater security by an extension of the tei-m of the license, was made by Mr C. J. L. White in an address to No. 9 Transport Licensing Authority today. “I respectfully suggest,” said Mr White, "that the time has now come when the Board might put forward recommendations to the Government that a halt should be called, and that the services surviving after the sittings should be assured that they will not be interfered with by further weeding or Government interference for such periods of years as may be deemed reasonable.” The chairman (Mr I. W. Wood) said that in regard to security of tenure, the Board was in sympathy with all operators, and realised that the term of the license should be increased. The Authority had felt in asking operators to co-ordinate that the question of tenure was important, and indeed, had felt diffident in asking them to expend considerable sums when there was no greater security. It felt that il operators had a longer tenure it might be possible to bring about a great degree of co-operation. He understood that officers of the Department were invistigating the matter, and no doubt they would be pleased to receive recommendations. He undertook to forward Mr White’s statement to the proper quarter with the Board's recommendations.