Enclosure 3.
the workmen's tickets may be bought, the conditions under which
they may be bought, the identity of the holder of such ticket,
the length of the journey which shall constitute a single journey,
the prevention of the transference of workmen's tickets from one
workman to another, and small penalties for infringement of any
such bye-laws.
Extract from "Hansard Report" of 17th. July, 1913.
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Under Sub-section (5) bye-laws made by the Company must be
approved by the Governor-in-Council and under
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Sub-section(6) the Governor in-Council is given power on
well founded complaint, if he is satisfied that the workaen's
service is inadequate, to regulate the service so as to render
it satisfactory.
Under Sub-section (7) the Company is given power to alter
its bye-laws subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council
and by
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Sub-section (8) the Governor-inCouncil is given power,
the event of the Company failing to make bye-laws at all or to
make bye-laws which me
meet with the approval of the Gover or-in-
Council, to step in and make the necessary bye-laws of his own
motion.
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In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excel-
lency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty
and on His behalf,
John Buckwill. a knitt.
Attorney General,
22. . 13,
HIS EXCELLENCY I think it would be advisable to explain fur ther that although the provision existed ia the old Ordinance for return
practice fares, in
there never haa been any return fares granted by the Company. There is, of course, a certain difficulty in issuing return tickets. Also, the old Ordinance laid down a limited two-cent single journey. I don't know what was in the mind of the Legislature at the time, but the Company, as you know, has divided its line into sections, and it comes to this, that a workman can be charged two-cents for a section. Now, what the Government proposes to do if this Bill passes is to lay down certain overlapping sections for the whole of which a workman will be able to travel two-cents out and two-cents back. On the whole, the bona fide workman who lives outside the city will gain, and ought to gain. The object, of course, of the work- men's cars is to discourage overcrowding in the city and to induce workmen to live outside the City of Victoria and to travel to and fro to their work. I may say that the object has not been realised, but it in more likely to be realised under the Bill
as it stands than it was under the old Bill.
The motion was agreed to.
Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
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