WESTERN TRANSPORT

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 33, 8 February 1929, Page 6

WESTERN TRANSPORT

j '" i! '"•'* time the Auckland ratepayers ; av.nke to the j...-;ti..n re traii-purt and thought i well before they committed themselves to j further huge i„ ;l ii-: The Auckland rates are now very high compared with other town- in j New Zealand, and ratepayers certainly have r.o I more advantages. What th- transport bungle of the past year ha- co-t the ratepaver- oniv I the Auckland t ity { ...invil know-. "*.\ln»ady j empty houses and j.atiietie iittle farming I rapidly deteriorating in the suburbs are lvin~ in the wake of the bungle. Take the western suburbs, the ratepayers of which par rates on a g-ood concrete road to travel on;* they had a splendid bus service run not at a ]o- s " unt ji a year ago. The Transport Board ha< rowdecided to hand the -crvice over to private enterprise, but on -u<h restricted and impossible condition- that no private company would dare to take it over, that is. they will" not he allowed to operate beyond the \Vhau Bridge. The board well know- that nothing through service will satisfy the l,u- v suburbanites, who cannot wa-te too much' time in travelling. Would another petition, this time to Sir Joseph Ward, re-tore to us our British, or perhaps 1 should say. our natural, right of travelling to and from the ,-itv how we wi-h! NEVER SAY DIE. '