TRANSPORT PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 9

TRANSPORT PROBLEMS.

DEPUTATION TO PREMIER.

AUCKLAND SUBURBS PROTEST

EFFORT TO AMEND ACT.

Discontent with the present state of transport matters in and around Auckland, more particularly in the outdistricts formerly served by the buses, has reached such a stage that Parliament's aid is to be invoked to relieve the position.

Residents of Roskill, Mount Eden, New Lynn, Glen Eden, and Henderson districts have been quietly organising for some time, and though not much has been made public a definite plan of campaign has been evolved. A large body of public opinion in the districts mentioned censures the No. 1 Licensing Authority, which is really the Auckland I City Council, and maintains that the j districts have suffered so severely since I the buses were driven off the roads that something must be done.

The organisers of the "revolt" have formed a strong deputation of some six representative men, who are going down to Wellington to-morrow night, and the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) has promised to receive them at half-past ten on Thursday morning. It is felt that it would be useless to try and get the Act repealed at this stage, and the deputation will concentrate on trying to get some of the more objectionable features modified. To that end it will ask the Premier to amend the Act, with a view to permitting buses to run from the out districts right through into the city, and the penal fare to operate only on existing tram lines. The deputation will also urge the Premier to set up an electric transport board for the metropolitan area, the outdistricts to be fully represented. The deputation thinks that as long as the sole control of the transport is in the hands of the city authorities the outdistricts are bound to suffer.