PENROSE BUS ROUTE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 39, 16 February 1943, Page 4

PENROSE BUS ROUTE

NEW SERVICE REFUSED The Metropolitan Licensing. Authority yesterday refused an application by the Passenger Transport Company for a license to run a service between the city and a terminus on the Great South Road. An objection was heard from W. J. Wheeler and Sons, Ltd., which runs a service between the city and Penrose by a different route. Mr. N. B. Spender, managing director of the applicant company, said that since the restriction of services his company had been prohibited from picking up or setting down passengers at Penrose. Con, sequentjy nearly 40 passengers had applied to the No. 1 Licensing Authority for permits to travel by the company's buses, giving various reasons, such as age and infirmity. However, the company had no room for them on the through buses. A temporary license had been secured from the No. 1 Authority to run a service of five trips daily between the city and Penrose outside peak hours, using standby buses. On behalf of Wheeler and Sons, Mr. P. H. Haigh objected that the proposed service would cut into the existing service, which ran within a quarter of a mile of the intended terminus. Figures were produced showing that there was normally enough room oh the through buses to carry the people who- were travelling on the temporary^-service. The authority decided that the arguments submitted by the applicant did not warrant'the granting of a license.