MOTOR SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18929, 29 January 1925, Page 7

MOTOR SERVICES.

Sir, —I seo that at a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the possibility of a reduction in the number of tramway and railway staffs owing to , motor-bus competition was feared, and a resolution Was passed, calling on. all unionists and railway men in particular, to patronise trams'and trains in preference to buses. Well, that reads all nice arid fif>6 from the railway and tramway men's point of view; seeing that they get practically free travelling, it isn't likely that they are going to travel on motor-buses. Now, what about the other man's side of the question ? If he shafts the motor-bus and stick.!', to the rail and tram, and thereby drives the motor off the road, will the railway and tramway men continue to be as civil and obliging as they are now, or will they go back to the pre-bus days, when you considered yourself lucky if a tramway or railway let you travel at all. It iis not many months ago that the railway men stopped work, and the travelling public had to despend on the motorbus and lorry owners to get back and forth to work. Did the railway men shed any tears of regret while a few thousand workers had to pay from 3s to 5s a day to get to work t Suburban Traveller.