NEW RAILWAY VENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 9

NEW RAILWAY VENTURE.

RUNNING OF BUS SERVICES. ELIMINATING COMPETITION. EXPERIMENT IN HAWKE'S BAA". (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. "The Railway Department. while regretting the necessity for the step, considers the time has arrived when the experiment of running buses should be tried, and the initial venture will be made between Napier and Hastings.'' said Mr. W. Rodie, Commercial Manager for the Railways, who is at present in Hastings. This decision, he said, had been arrived at only after the most careful consideration of all the facts by the Railway. Board. When the railway buses are put on, non-paying trains will be taken off. Thus a saving will be effected. In entering into the road transport business, it is understood that the Railway Department's policy is to "work in" with the motor transport people in places where they serve as connecting links with the railways, and, in other places where motors and buses are running in competition with the trains for the carriage of passengers, to negotiate for the purchase of such services, and thus avoid overlapping and the loss that keen competition would occasion.