BUS REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19323, 10 May 1926, Page 7

BUS REGULATIONS.

Sir. —I have read the bus regulations with surprise and indignation. If the tramways cannot compete with the inotorbus on fair terms, then let the trams retire from the field and leave the better service to do the work. Why should the public bo compelled to bolster up any train system —whether municipally or privately owned —by such a miserable injustice as that of compelling the bus owner to charge 2d more to each passenger than the corresponding tramway fare? This is not bus regulation, it is a determined attempt to ruin the bus industry and sweep away all. rivalry to the train system. The whole attempt to throttle and stamp out the rivalry of the motor-bus is unworthy of our legislators, unfair to the bus owners, and unfair to the public, who will be deprived of the benefit they have been receiving from the competition between tram and motorbus. I should like to know at whose instance these regulations have been framed and issued. "Regulations" in a misnomer. They are a set of rules cxpressely designed to place such a handicap on the bus-owner that it will bo impossible for him to continue in business, and so compel him to withdraw from his present competition with the trams, leaving a tram monopoly. If the Auckland public approve such unfair methods I shall be very much surprised. J. Thoiines. 231, Farnell Road, Auckland.