INSPECTION OF ISLE OF MAN COACHES.
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For several weeks nova the Manx Legislature, in its debate on the Highways Consolidation Bill a has had under consideration the inspection and supervision of motor coaches and public hire vehicles, in respect of which representations have been Made by the Vehicle owners.
It was pointed out that the Douglas Corporation had an inspector, and last year he inspected 86 chars-kbancs and 162 motorcars. It would' be an intoler
able nuisance and an interference with the pleasure of visitors if constables were to stop motor oaches or hackney carriages on any 'occasion and in any place.
Mr. Kneen, for the corporation, said it had been alleged that the object of the Bill was only to enable a constable to stop a vehicle when he had grounds for suspicion, but he pointed out that a constable had absolute power at present to stop a car if he saw anything wrong. The prevision might be quite proper for the outside districts which did not supervise vehicles in the way the corporation (lid, but, having regard to the method employed by the corporation, the experience of the inspector and the satisfactory way in which the inspection was carried out, he asked for the addition to the section of certain words, excluding the , Borough of Douglas from the system of highway board inspection.
Some of the clauses to which the vehicle proprietors took exceptiOn were postponed.