ADDITIONAL BUS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 7

ADDITIONAL BUS

SERVICE TO HOSPITAL HIGHER SUBSIDY SOUGHT In order to meet repeated demands from the Cook Hospital Board for extra bus trips to the Cook Hospital, the Gisborne Borough Council _ has agreed as a trial to run one additional bus leaving the Post Office at 10 45 a.m. daily for one month, the board was notified yesterday. Along with this intimation came a request from the council for the pre»ent subsidy to be increased from £153 per year to £3OO, figures being given of increasing costs since the 1927 agreement was signed fixing the subsidy at its present rate of £3 per week.

“What will be the position if they run the extra bus just for the month and then discontinue it; will it mean we will still have to pay the £300?” asked the chairman, Mr. M. T. Trafford.

Mr. G. W. Armstrong; The extra trip is going to be expensive if it is t'o cost us £146 per year. The increased subsidy was being asked to meet increased costs since the last agreement, not for the extra trip, Mr. J. I-I. Hall pointed out. Mr. H. H. Barker moved that the matter of increased subsidy be deferred until the estimates for next year were being considered, and in the meantime the council be thanked for running the additional bus. Mr. J. B. Williams seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously.