BIRKENHEAD FERRIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 11

BIRKENHEAD FERRIES.

VEHICULAR TIME-TABLE. NO CHANGE TO BE MADE. A deputation comprising representatives of the Auckland Automobile Association, the Birkenhead Borough Council, the Birkenhead Business Association, and the Birkenhead Ratepayers' Association yesterday afternoon discussed at. length with the Hon. E. W. Alison, chairman of directors of the Devonport Ferry Company, suggestions for an extended timetable for the Birkenhead vehicular service. The president of the Auckland Automobile Association, Mr. A. Grayson, said motorists who travelled from the North complained that there was 110 vehicular boat from Birkenhead during the winter months later than 4.45 p.m. This necessitated vehicles having to make the longer journey to Devonport in order to cross to the city. Mr. Alison quoted tallies taken while the summer time-table was in existence in order to demonstrate the paucity of patronage accorded to the evening service from Birkenhead and Northcotc. He said the traffic 011 that route did not warrant the extra expenditure that would be involved. ' Mr, B. E. Champtaloup, manager of the Automobile Association, undertook to erect a notice-board on the Glenfield highway informing motorists ot the time of the last trip from Birkenhead in order to prevent drivers making a futile journev to Birkenhead It was also agreed that the Automobile Association should confer with the Birkenhead and Northcote Borough Councils in an endeavour to arrive at a summer timetable acceptable to all parties.