BUS SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19485, 15 November 1926, Page 10

BUS SERVICES.

Sir,—l was glad to see in your columns a letter calling attention to the withdrawal of the Royal buses which used to run along Ladies' Mile and Peach Parade and Lake Road. The mark of a civilised country is the care it takes of the weaker members of its inhabitants, the children, the wflak and the old; but this action of tho City Council means that these have now to walk, often in rain and storm, a quarter to half a mile at least to reach » tramline. For children going to schools and for mothers who must do their marketing, this is a great hardship, and they should be our first consideration, not our last! Then, too, for health reasons it is wise to encourage the people with large families, who cannot afford motor-cars, to move out of crowded city areas to the suburbs. But the present policy of the council, with its curtailing of transport facilities and increased fares, will prevent this movement out toward wider spaces and purer air, and a healthier popii lation. Even at some slight ] loss, surely the council should welcome private enterprise that assists in solving this very urgent problem of adequate transport in our growing and widespread city. It is the crowded streets that breed young criminals, as your correspondent of !as f Tuesday pointed out; if our children have no room given them for organised plav. they will form themselves into the gangs of young hooligans which appear constantly before the Children's flriurt here. Hygienic.