TAKAPUNA TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1926, Page 18

TAKAPUNA TRANSPORT.

iTo the Editor) Sir.--1 have been a resident of Tiikapuna for a gond many years and know something of the conditions. The cars are very often in a l>nd condition and not pleasant to travel in; a satisfactory service has not liecn maintained, and the travelling public has not lieen altered for. Since the use of motor buses by the company in conjunction with the trams, I would ask the chairman of directors why (ho ferry bout is sometimes allowed to leave the wharf heforv the last lms arrives with its' passengers? This has happened on more than one occasion, so that the unfortunate people are forced to cool their heels on the Bayswater wharf till the return of the boat. It appears to mc that the compnny is incapable of keeping an adequate service with both bus and tr.im, much less with trnm alone.—l am. etc.. suffrcßix<; rati<: payi:i:. (To (he Editor.) Sir.--An even more farcical position than before hits arisen in the bus and tram" tight in this, borough. 'Hie Borough Council—all pro-tramway in sympathies —are the licensing body. The busowners :ire told they can go to the Appeal Board. The Appeal Board consists of the Mayor of the borough, who is chairman with a casting vote, a director of the Tramway Company, some outside neutral, and the busowner. What chance has the biiFowner of the square deal promised by the Premier? The situation is absolutely Cilbertian, with the Mayor .as Lord High Executioner and the rest of the Appeal Board Lord High Everything else. Poor busowners! Their chance is not worth considering.—l am, etc., RESIDENT.