I am much impressed by the argument presented for the company and feel that there is much weight to be attached to it. 1 have come to the conclusion nevertheless that the words in the clauses above quoted and (with resp€ct to the case before me), more particularly 29 (d), have left to the Council the right to make traffic regulations binding on the company and that this traffic regulation 36 B is properly made and so binding. As to the arbitration clause 42, I am in accord with Mr. Maitland, counsel for the police, that it is not possible to "contract out" of the possibility of a criminal or quasi-criminal charge in the future. To hold otherwise would be to remove from the Council the power to regulate and control the actions of a Company performing a public service. The Council are the nominees of the ratepayers.and the guardians of their interests, _and it would be a far step to say that the Council are debarred from protecting those interesta where it may seem necessary. It
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