PAPAKURA BUS SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 13

PAPAKURA BUS SERVICE

PROPOSED EXTRA TRIPS SUPPORT FROM TOWN BOARD The bus service between Papakura and Auckland was considered by the Papakura Town Board on Monday night, when a letter was received from the Auckland Provincial Motor-Bus Company inquiring the attitude of the board toward a proposal to provide an additional return trip daily except on Saturdays and Sundays. The company advised that the proposal was to provide a bus leaving Auckland at 1.55 p.m. and reaching Papakura at 2.55. The return journey would commence from Papakura at 3.15. The chairman, Mr. H. E. McEntee, said the additional trip would be appreciated, particularly by women residents of Papakura who wished to return home from the city at an earlier hour in the afternoon. The board ; decided to support the proposal and to make representations to the Licensing Authority in favour of the company's application. Intention to apply for permission to make an all-round increase of Is a week in workers' fares was also advised by the company. This course, it was stated, was found necessary as a result of complaints made against the company in tegard to the overloading of buses. The company had been informed that the matter must be rectified and the only manner in which it could meet the position was to provide further vehicles. This could not be done on tho present revenue. The board received the communication and decided to inform the company that it raised no objection to the proposed increase.