BUS SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24178, 21 January 1942, Page 6

BUS SERVICES

COMPANY'S PETROL FULL RESTORATION MADE RESUMING FORMER SCHEDULE Passenger services in a number of suburbs provided by Transport Bus Services and recently curtailed as a result of the cut in petrol supplies will be largely restored from the coming weekend. This company previously had an allocation of 3000 gallons of petrol a month and maintained full services to Point Resolution and Portland Road, as well as feeder Connections between Avondale and Point Chevalier corner and Avondale and Blockhouse Bay, but petrol restrictions compelled it to cancel all but workers' morning and evening trips, leaving populous areas largely isolated for the remainder of the day. An appeal was made last Monday to the Auckland Metropolitan Licensing Authority against the cut and an application to have the petrol licence restored to its former amount of 3000 gallons a month was supported by residents of the districts concerned. The manager of the company, Mr. T. H. Bonnett, announced last night that he had been advised by the Oil Fuel Controller that full restoration had been approved. Mr. Bonnett said that from next Sunday the feeder services from Avondale would be operated in full and this would be followed by a large measure of restoration of the Point Resolution and Portland Road time-tables, although in the meantime the Sunday service on these routes would not run. The service to Waikowhai will also be increased. Since the imposition of the petrol cut the company has dispensed with the services of six of its drivers.