MOTOR ADVERTISEMENTS. s. o. s REAL PIONEERS OF MOTOR TRANSPORT PASSENGER SERVICES Established WANGANUI • HAWEfiA Service on February 20, 1922, with one car. 8.0.5. 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 regulaT drivers all on our own PIONEER SERVICE ROUTES, and our own services cover collectively 2000 miles per day. EVERT SERfICE where S.O.S. Cars run has been PIONEERED, advertised, ! organised and consistently backed up by a reliable service under all conditions - BAIL, RAIN or SHINE. We have therefore every confidence in | once again asking the residents of j Taranaki to ’PATRONISE THE PIONEERS I 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 regu- j lar through service from 1 WELLINGTON to NEW PLYMOUTH. (See list of Booking Offices at foot of Time-table) LATEST TIME-TABLE DOWN. JUNE 15, 1927. NEW PLYMOUTH-HAWERA SECTION. CARS DEPART NEW PLYMOUTT a. m. a.m. a.in. o-m. p.m. p.m. 4.0 7.30 9.15 10.0 12.30 1.46 ARRIVE HAWERA a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m p.m. p.m. 6.30 9.30 11.15 12.0 2.30 3.45 HAWERA-WANGANUI SECTION. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m Depart Arrive Wanganui 9.45 12.0 3.30 b. 15 Sundays, 10 a.m.; arrive Wanganui 12.30 p.m Comfortable closed-in cars and Limousines WANGANUI-FEILDING-ASH-HURST. Leave Wanganui 10.15 a.m.; a five Feilding, 11.45 a.m.; arrive Ashhurst 12.20 p.m. Connects to Palmerston. Connects with Napier mail train. Meets train from Napier. WANGANUI-MARTON SECTION. The 1 p.m. car from Hawera connects to Marton, allowing 1J hours in Wanganui. Fare 8/6. Also car leaves Wanganui at 9.15 p.m., connects with "Limited" to Auckland. Night Fare 10/-WANGANUI-WELLi W UTON 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. WELLINGTQN-WANGANUI SECTION. Leave Wellington, 2 a.m. ("Dominion" special), 8.30 a.m., 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 MABTONWANGANUI. 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. WANGANUI-HAWERA SECTION. Leave Wanganui 7.15 a.m., 8.30 a m., 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. CARS 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 OARS ARRIVE NEW PLYMOUTH, a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.rn. 1 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, | 10/-. 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 357; C. Dyke, Daily News Office, ’phone I '/ (for 4 a.m. service). STRATFORD— Rudkin’s, 'phone HAWERA— Lysons, Foord & Keilt'r’s Garage, ’phono 2310; S.O.S. Office, Egmont 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, 'Phpne 3130. FEILDING— Bain’s Garage, ’phone 79. PALMERSTON— . "The Dominion" Newspaper Office, 'phone 5955. WELLINGTON— Mrs Leiteh, the Wattle Confectionery Shop, Hotel Windsor premises, 51 Willis St., ’phone 45842. [Registered Telegraphic Address: "SOSMO," Wanganui. Send Collect Telegram. It secures « *at and costa yon rothir
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 September 1927, Page 1
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