ROAD SERVICES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 149, 9 June 1936, Page 7

ROAD SERVICES

Two More Purchased By Government EGLINTON VALLEY RUN (By Telegraph-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 9. The Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, announced t,o-day that the Railways Department had taken over two additional passenger road services in the South Island. One is Hunter’s D.O.T. Motors, Limited, operating between Dunedin and Oamuru, Dunedin and Timaru, and Oamaru and Kurow, and. the other is the Mt. Cook Tourist Company’s Egliuton Valley passenger service, operating on the Lumsden, Manapouri, Te Anau, Eglinton Valley route. Mr. Sullivan’s statement aays: “The purchase of these services effects u further valuable co-ordination of road ser. vices under single ownership. From the public aspect it is satisfactory tu know that, while the price paid in each instance has reasonably recompensed the vendors, the department’s ostit mates show that, after lull allowance has been made to cover cost and depreciation, both services can be run to supply the best modern standards of comfort and convenience and at the same time provide a reasonable return on the investment.” The D.O.T. service includes slock yud garage plant. Tho assets of tho Eglinton Valley service include licenses, garage and plant at Lumsden, seven vehicles, and Cascade camp, with plant and equipment. It is stuped that it is impoilani to bear in mind thut the whole cost of opening up tho territory beyond Te Anau to Milford Sound, which is exclusively a national park, lias been incurred by the Government on behait of the people, who arc entitled to the financial and other benefits arising out of the development of the urea and the handling of the transport requirements by a national transport concern with all its resources and equipment.