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93. Rehabilitation. —During the year ended 31st March, 1946, 856 transport licences were obtained by ex-servicemen. This brings the total licences held by ex-servicemen at 31st March, 1947, to 2,265. (a) The following table shows by districts the class of these licences :

(b) The following table shows the number of transport licences now held by ex-servicemen, and also the total number of current transport licences, as at 31st March, 1947, by districts :

94. Goods-service Charges Tribunal. —During the year ended 31st March, 1947, the Tribunal held hearings to deal with four applications for the review of area rates schedules, one application for exemption from an area rates schedule, two applications for special rates, and a Dominion-wide application for an increase in rates consequent on increases in wages in the road goods transport industry. In addition the Tribunal dealt with 44 general contracts and 38 mail contracts.

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District. Class of Licence obtained. Passenger. Taxi. Rental. Goods. Total. No. 1 26 125 10 567 728 No. 2 31 165 8 419 623 No. 3 10 18 5 169 202 No. 4 6 59 3 294 362 No. 5 3 13 4 40 60 Auckland Metropolitan 1 109 110 Wellington Metropolitan 113 113 Chxistchurch Metropolitan 44 44 Dunedin Metropolitan 23 23 Totals 77 669 30 1,489 2,265

Class of Licence. Passenger. Taxi. Uental. Goods. Totals. District. 3 o EH a { | & m 3 o EH fl 1 > y. i o H a 1 '> K ~o H g 1 o V m 11 Hi ►*> § •d ® "3.2 .C > s * a ibi O 211 <B.fi f S No. 1 No. 2 .. No. 3 .. No. 4 .. No. 5 .. Auckland Metropolitan .. Wellington Metropolitan Christ church Metropolitan Dunedin Metropolitan .. 434 354 117 145 58 431 13 15 16 26 31 10 6 3 1 359 279 73 118 32 373 203 104 51 125 165 18 59 13 109 113 44 23 44 59 24 18 8 10 8 5 3 4 1,873 1,313 507 612 111 567 419 169 294 40 2,710 2,005 721 893 209 804 216 119 67 728 623 202 362 60 110 113 44 23 27 31 28 41 29 14 52 37 34 Totals 1,583 77 1,592 669 153 30 4,416 1,489 7,744 2,265 29