BUS SERVICES BUSY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30529, 26 August 1964, Page 11

BUS SERVICES BUSY

School Holiday Traffic At least one bus company’s entire fleet was kept busy during the week-end by school holiday traffic. The biggest demand for travel came on Saturday and Monday, Newman Brothen, Ltd., reported. Services were heavily booked for the next two weeks, and also for return trips to school on September 12 and Id. The service which connects with the Aramoana had been particulariy popular, and was carrying about twice the normal traffic. It seemed parents were making more use of the service to send their children home than in previous yean. The holidays have brought occasional strange Incidents. On Monday morning, a man took a nine-year-old boy to the bus station, and said he had just brought him from the express frmn Invercargill and he wu to go on the bus to Nelson. He then left the boy, who had money for tnvel and food, but no seat had been booked on the bus, which was full. The boy told the bus company staff that he had been put on the train at Invercargill by his mother, and was being met at Nelson by his sister. He had travelled 336 miles in the train during the night, and was to board' the bus for. the 276 miles to Nelson. A place was found for him near the driver, who took care of him until he got to Nelson.