HARBOUR FERRY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 105, 29 January 1924, Page 6

HARBOUR FERRY SERVICE

WHARF ARRANGEMENTS CRITICISED Oqe visitor to Day’s Bay yesterday afternoon was not at all satisfied that tho public is getting “a fair deal” in the passenger arrangements at thte ferry wharf. “You’ve got it arranged all wrong,” he said, “and I doubt if it would be tolerated elsewhere. I got down to the wharf at 1.55 p.m.,’’ he said, “and had to stand in a queue until 2.5 p.mAt that time there were about twenty people in the queue, and as it extended across the cart entrance to the wharf, the queue had to wag its tail or be run over every time a vehicle passed in or out. At length the youth within opened his awkardlyplaced slide, and sold the tickets. . I passed down the wharf, pleased with the prospect of the shade under the Mnritai’s awning deck,' but was surprised to find no gangway up, and some thirty people had to wait until 2.15 p.m. ’ before the gangway was placed in position and people were allowed to go on board. I would simply hate to have to compare such methods -noth those of the Auckland ferry services.”