MOTOR-BUS STAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 11

MOTOR-BUS STAND.

; OBJECTION TO ; NEW - .SITE. t " , • _ ' * ,i >' I LEGAL PROCEEDINGS TAKEN . Thirteen.motor-bus owners in -Auckland ) are being proceeded against • under : ' the 5 city-by-laws for alleged failure obey ' official instructions to"''move their camp" [ to a new?; site. J -.-When'; the City ; Council , decided -to construct ' a safety . zone at the > foot of . Queen , Street, the omnibus .proi prietors were. instructed jto transfer j; their 1 hiring t quarters - from opposite the Chief 1 Post . Office to r a site near - the • waterfront I in Quay - Street. This area '*1 was objected , to as' comparatively obscure. The cases were; mentioned before"', Mr. J O l W. Poyri- ' ton, S.M., at the Police (Court < yesterday, ' and adjourned for a, fortnight. } - Meanwhile , the brisk /; competition / be--3 tween the . omnibuses and tramways -on • several main routes, especially along those ' with a concrete j surface continues with 1 a 3 promise of interesting development. < Such • competition was r admittedly > inaugurated 3 by busmen as a. traffic reprisal for, tno loss of an ideal hiring stand and the measure * of "f success is claimed ito have been 1 verj * substantial. Scouts for the other side :oi 1 . the city,;, transport war. • ■ however, • have 1 taken a careful - tally of ' the bus : traffic, s and ' - the . results may prove •a -' factor ?in \ determining the organisation of the city's prospective motor-bus service, j which Will soon be in operation. * ' • *