CONDUCTORS ON BUSES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28835, 4 March 1959, Page 7

CONDUCTORS ON BUSES

Suggestion By Union (New Zealana Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 3. Conductors should be provided on all buses and trolley-buses in which people are permitted to stand during the time of picking. up and setting down passengers in a city area, a committee of inquiry was told today. The suggestion came from Mr L. G. J. Southon, Christchurch, national president of the New Zealand Tramway and Public Passenger Transport Authorities Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers.

Mr Southon was making submissions to a Government-ap-pointed committee of inquiry into the need for any changes in laws and regulations necessary because of the changeover from trams to buses. He submitted, among other points, that the standing load on any passenger vehicle should be limited to 10. The committee has already sat in Auckland, and after Wellington will sit in Christchurch and Dunedin.

Mr A. E. Forsyth, Assistant Commissioner of Transport, is chairman, and the other members are Mr P. A. Hansen, national secretary of the Tramway Union, and Mr C. R. Gribble, general manager of the Auckland Transport Board. Mr Southon is chief advocate for the union, and Mr W. S. Coppin, general manager of the Wellington City Council Transport Department, chief advocate for the employers.