MOTOR ADVERTISEMENTS. s. o. s REAL PIONEERS OF MOTOR TRANSPORT PASSENGER SERVICES Established WANGANUI - HAWEBA i Service on February 20, 1922, with j one car. j S.O.S. MOTORS have now 25 modern | high-powered cars operating between Hawera, Wanganui, Marton, Palmerston, Feilding, Ashhurst, Foxton, Levin and Wellington. S.O.S. MOTORS employ 15 regular drivers all on our own PIONEER SERVICE ROUTES, and our own services cover collectively 2000 miles per day. EVERY SERVICE where S.O.S. Cars run has been PIONEERED, advertised, > organised and consistently backed up ; by a reliable service under all conditions HAIL, RAIN or SHINE.; We have therefore every confidence in j I once again asking the residents of Taranaki to PATRONISE THE PIONEERS 1 Stick to 5.0.5., who turned the first sod, as it were, and did the pick and shovel work in establishing, and then increasing, the regular services now running and linking up to form a regular through service from WELLINGTON to NEW PLYMOUTH. (See list ot Booking Offices at foot of Time-table) LATEST TIME-TABLE DOWN. JUNE 15, 1927. ✓ NEW PLYMOUTH-HAWERA SECTION. CARS DEPART NEW I'LYMOUTT Comfortable closed-in cars and Limousines
WANGANUI-FEILDING-ASH- > HURST. j Leave Wanganui .10.15 a.m.; arrive | Peilding, 11.45 a.m.; arrive Ashhurst I 12.20 p.m. Connects to Palmerston. Connects with j Napier mail train. Meets train from! Napier. I WANGANUI-MARTON SECTION. ! rhe 1 p.m. car from Hawera connects | to Marton, allowing 1£ hours in Wanganui. Fare 8/6. Also car leaves Wanganui at 0.15 p.m., connects with “ Limited ’’ to Auckland. Night Fare 10/-WANGANUI-'WELLINGTON SECTION. Long wheel-base cars on this route. (No-Charabancs) Leave Wanganui 7 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m. Arrive Wellington 12.30 p.m., 3.45 p.m., 6.45 p.m. Refreshments at Foxton or Levin as desired. TIME-TABLE UP. WELLINGTON-WANGANUI SECTION. Leave Wellington, 2 a.m. (“Dominion’’ special), 8.30 a.in., 12.30 p.m. Arrive Wanganui, 8 a.m., 2.30 p.m., 6.15 p.m. 130 Miles—Fare only £l. ASHHURST-FEILDING-WANGANUI Leave Ashhurst railway station on arrival Napier down mail (approx.), 12.30 p.m. Arrive Feilding, 1 p.m. Arrive Wanganui, 2.30 p.m. PALMERSTON MARTONWANGANUI. Leave Palmerston, 7.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. Arrive Wanganui, 9.30 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m. Leave Marton on arrival of all Main Trunk trains, North and South. Connects to New Plymouth on arrival at Wanganui. WLYNGANUI-HAWERA SECTION. Leave W r anganui 7.15 a.m., 8.30 am., 9.45 a.m., 1.5 p.m., 3 p.m., 4.30 p.m. (to Patea only). Arrive Hawera 9.45 a.m., 11 a.m., 12.15 p.m., 3.35 p.m., 5.30 p.m. HAWERA-NEW PLYMOUTH SECTION. OAKS DEPART HAWERA. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. 8.0 9.0 9.45 11.0 1.0 4.0 5.30 OAKS ARRIVE NEW PLYMOUTH, a.m. a.m, a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. 10.0 11.0 11.45 1.0 3.0 6.0 7.30 Note the frequency of services FARES. New Plymouth—Hawera, single fare, 10/-. Hawera —Wanganui, single fare, 12/6. Special Through Fares. New Plymouth to Wanganui, 21/-. New Plymouth to Wellington, £2. Wanganui —Marton, day, 8/6; night w--Wanganui —Feilding, 10/-. Wanganui—A hhurst, 12/6. Wanganui —Palmerston, 10/-. Wanganui—Wellington, £l. BOOKING OFFICES. NEW PLYMOUTH— James Fowler, ’phone 694 M; Gibsons
Motors!, 'phone .''<s7; C. Dyke, Daily News Office, 'phone IV (for 4 a.m. service). STRATFORD— Rudkin's, 'phone HAWERA— Lysons, Foord & Iloiler’s Garage, 'phone 2330; S.O.S. Office, Eginont Hotel premises, 'phone 2577; Night 'Phone, L. Plant, c/o J. Blake, 2219. PATEA— Pulley’s Garage, ’phone 131. WANGANUI— S.O.S. Head Office, Rutland Buildings, 'Phone 3130. FEL L DING — Bain's Garage, 'phone 79. PALMERSTON—- ‘ • The Dominion” Newspaper Office, 'phone 5955. WELLINGTON — Mrs Leitch, the Wattle Confectionery Shop, Hotel Windsor premises, 51 Willis St., 'phone 45842. Registered Telegraphic Address: "SOSMO,” Wanganui. Send Collect Telegram. It secures a seat and costa yon nothin
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 July 1927, Page 1
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