TAXI COMPETITION
"When .ire we going to linve that interview with the General Manager of Railways regarding the bus service 1?" asked Councillor Wilson at last evening's meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council. Tho Mayor, Mr. W. T. Strand, said that tno council was awaiting the fixing of a time by Mr. Sterling. A councillor remarked that if the taxi competition continued much longer "there would soon bo no bus service." "I think," saul the Mayor, "if the buses started charging Is return the competition would soon stop." Tho Hutt-Wcllington run was the only one in New Zealand where fares had not been reduced; instead, they had been increased. Councillor Anderson: "If the* buses trere handed over to private enterprise they would bo soon made to pay. I know of men who would be glad to take them over to-morrow." The Mayor: "I would like to sco the dovernment hand over, not only the buses, but tho whole of the railways to private enterprise.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 10
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165TAXI COMPETITION Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 10
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