TRANSPORT SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 13

TRANSPORT SERVICES

Sir, —The stated object of the Transport Board is the elimination of wasteful and non-paying competition. This aims at efficiency, a much-boosted term of recent years, efficiency attained in industry and transport meaning tho elimination of wastage. The greatest obstacle in the way of attaining efficiency is the indifference and ignorance of the masses, as in the case of transport services they do not seem to mind how many non-paying services are tearing up and down our roads, until buses are eventually seized by the firms who sold them, and many bills for benzine and repairs are left unpaid at garages all over the country. As a matter of fact, many of tho people living in country hamlets who want a continuation of this policy spend very few shillings in travel, especially these hard times, but probably they think a large number of buses passing their farms will enhance the value of same. A tally of the number of passengers carried by some of these services would make one wonder why they carry on so long. For example, | the service of which your Dairy Flat correspondent complains. Tho d,ty on which his letter appeared in this column the total number of passengers for tho day over the whole length from Orewa to Auckland was two, carried in a 13-seater bus, for which return fare has to be paid on vehicular ferry. During tho summer months a twice-daily service is run, thanks to the seaside holiday traffic. If it were not for this traffic, the service would probably have been off tho road before this. The total number of passengers carried to and from Dairy Flat and Silverdale on this extra sorvice leaving city in the morning and returning in the afternoon was last season approximately six passengers per week. Probably your Daiiy Flat correspondent would have liked to have seen this particular service put off tho road, perhaps to grind some little axe of his own. At any rate, the Silverdale and Dairy Flat residents stated their case before the Transport Board, which is in the best position to review the case. Another Flat.