REPLY NO ANSWER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4305, 17 July 1950, Page 7

REPLY NO ANSWER

RESERVING BUS SEATS

A PAEROA COMPLAINT

FEDERATED FARMERS MEET

The reply was no real answer, said several members who related, at the July meeting of the Paeroa branch of Federated Farmers, their experiences of booking in Piaeroa to Auckland and return to Paeroa and found that no reservations for the return journey had been made by New Zealand Government Railway (Road Services in Auckland.

One member told a story of being left stranded in Auckland although he had booked the return journey. “It is the same old story,” said Mr H. C. Jackson, “and as long as a Government depairtment tries to run a bus service there will be jto service to the public.. It is just a case of take it w leave it. There is taniy one solution,” continued Mr Jackson, ‘<and that is to hand the service over to private enterprise.” The ftiaiter Should hot be dropped, said Mr O. P. Liddell, for with the new Minister of Transport, Mr W. S. Goosman, there should be every prospect of the bus being handed back to private enterprise for the State service was a failure.

A motion was duly carried that the Minister be communicated with’ and that the manager of Railway 2oat Services at Auckland be advise.x t .a. his letter was no answer.