LIABLE TO PROSECUTION.
SERVICE CARS AND PASSENGERS.
MAGISTRATE'S INVESTIGATION
On being asked by His Worship whether service cars travelling between Hamilton and Auckland conveying passengers were liable to prosecution,--Mr F. A. Swarbrick, in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, this morning, replied in the affirmative. Certain cars, he said, .were escaping the heavy motor omnibus license fee, and were running in opposition to the railways, causing a great loss to the country. The position was truly ridiculous. These service cars were damaging the country roads to an enormous extent, and the consequences fell directly on the shoulders of the ratepayers of the counties through which the cars passed. The time taken from Hamilton to Auckland by the cars in question made it absolutely necessary, laking the stoppages into consideration, for them to travel at times over 45 miles per hour. Mr Swarbrick pointed out that the party responsible for the drafting of the regulations lived in Wellington and was not conversant with the roads and traffic in the Waikato. The result of the prosecution just taken, however, would undoubtedly lead to an amendment of the regulations, making them more equitable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17241, 28 October 1927, Page 7
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