King v Frazer - [1945] NZLR 175

Transport Licensing — Appeal — Application invited from Discharged Servicemen for ten Taxicab-service Licenses — In Selection from nineteen Applicants, preference given by Licensing Authority to Those who had been Overseas — Whether Power to discriminate — Appeal of unsuccessful Applicant whose Failure to obtain License occasioned by such Discrimination — Transport Appeal Authority declining Jurisdiction because of Effects following upon its Exercise — Whether Words "upon the ground of lack of Jurisdiction" applied — Right of Appeal of one of a Class of Applicants, not the Holder of a License, against a Decision to grant a License to Another Person — Whether Mandamus proper Remedy — Power of Transport Appeal Authority to Order Reconsideration — Transport Licensing Act, 1931, ss 25, 26, 28, 29 — Transport Licenses Emergency Regulations, 1942, Amendment No 1 (Serial No 1943/175), Reg 9.