SUBURBAN BUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24369, 3 September 1942, Page 4

SUBURBAN BUSES

WATERFRONT SERVICES COMMENT ON COMPLAINTS The alterations to the bus services running to St. Heliers, Mission Bay and other waterfront suburbs which became operative last week have brought several complaints from travellers. It was anticipated that the changes would evoke grievances from individual passengers whose customary routine of travel has been disturbed, but officials believe that they will disappear as the people adjust themselves to the new conditions -and obvious faults in the service are corrected. Commenting yesterday on specific complaints, the manager of L. J. Keys, Limited, stated that the distance from the St. Heliers Bay bus depot to St. Heliers School is 1000 yards, so that no resident between the two points had more than 500 yards to walk for a bus. Each of these points is the terminus of a route, the service from the depot running via the waterfront and that from the school by way of Long Drive. The distance between stopping points, which were previously 120 yards apart, is now about 300 yards, except in the Orakei State suburbs, where it is 2.30 yards. Sunday services have had to be reduced by 75 per cent or discontinued. The reason for taking passengers to Meadowbank or the Remuera Post Office is to enable those who must travel to the city on Sunday to do so, while at the same time avoiding the waterfront, where the reduced service could not hope to cope with the crowds from the beaches. The company caters for churchgoers by running buses leaving St.-Heliers for Meadowbank at 10.5 a.tii. and G. 5 p.m. Complaints had also been made that a number of passengers to Patteson Avenue, Mission Bay, had been left behind at 5.10 and 5.20 p.m. An additional bus had been put on, and according to official observations last night there had been practically no hold-up of passengers. MORE GIRLS NEEDED CANNING AT WESTFIELD "The demand for girls in the canning department at Wcstfield is still very urgent and every endeavour is being made to fill the requirements," said the assistant district manpower officer, Mr T. G. Fielder, at a sitting of the Auckland Manpower (Industrial) Committee yesterday. "However, as things are at present 1 cannot see the demand being filled in less than five or six weeks." An interviewing officer for the district manpower department. Miss I. McLennan, told the committee that when she recently inspected the conditions under which girls worked at Westfield she found they were far better than she had expected. The amenities had the great advantage of being now and they catered fully for the girls' needs. Realising the need for getting the job done, the girls were carrying out their duties in the right spirit, and those who had been directed to work there seemed quite content with their new sphere of life. RESTITUTION ORDER A petition for an order di acting his wife, Christina Daphne Suckling, to return to him was made by Leslie Charles Suckling (Mr. Robinson) before Mr. Justice Fair yesterday. Petitioner said they had been happily married for over six years until this year, when he found hie wife had left their home on March 25. She said they were unsuited when he tried to get her to return. A decree for the restitution of conjugal rights within 14 days was granted.