BUS SERVICE ROUTE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24972, 15 August 1944, Page 4

BUS SERVICE ROUTE

EXTENSION REFUSED THE GREEN LANE HOSPITAL Aii application fur an extension of its present bus route through parts of Kpsom to terminate at the Green Lane Hospitn] was made b.y the Hospital Bus Company to the .Metropolitan Licensing ,j Authority yesterday. Consequent tirne- , I table and fare and section adjustments were also requested. Representing the company, .Mr H. U. , K. Hislop said the train services to the area were overloaded and inadequate. , He quoted a request from the hospital ( to the Hospital Board for the provision i of a service. The Auckland 1 ransport ■ Board (Mr Stanton) opposed the application, as the service was considered , extravagant and uneconomical. The ap- [ plication was also opposed by the acting- ) district qfiicer of the Transport Depart- , ment. Mr X. C. Angus, on behalf of the Oil Fuel Controller, on the grounds of petrol and rubber conservation, i The authority refused the applica- , tion. PROTEST AT DECISION 1 HOSPITAL BOARD'S ACTION [ The Auckland Hospital Board last • night decided to protest against the decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to refuse permission for the extension of the Hospital Bus Co.'s route through parts of Epsom to terminate at the Green Lane Hospital. Concern was expressed by several members at the refusal; a recommendation having come from the Green Lane Hospital . Committee that the board should support the proposal to extend the route and also suggesting that it go as far i ns Great South Road and that a Sun- ) day service be included, i Advice had been received from the > company that the Commissioner of j Transport was prepared to authorise t, the service, provided the board asked • him for it and submitted reasons. To a 5 previous suggestion by the hospital r board for a shuttle service along Green i Lane the transport board had replied that none of six companies, which int eluded the Hospital Bus Co., was prei pared to operate it. 3 ! CHEAPER MILK J OPERATION NEXT MONTH 1 A reduction of Id a quart in the price r ot milk lor householders will operate on September 1, according to a resolution passed by the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council yesterday. The prices tor bottled milk sold in quantities of under a gallon will be 6Jd a quart, 3Jd a pint and 2d a half-pint. The price of one and a-half pints bought separately will be sd. For similar quantities ot loose a milk the prices will be 6d, 3d and ljd g respectively, while one and a-half pints r bought separately will cost 4Jd. s A schedule of prices for milk bought C by a roundsman for resale or bought by a vendor for resale by wholesale and a schedule of cream rates are also set out in the resolution, and fix the same prices which ruled from September 1 of last year to February 28 of this year s The fixing of rates for cream, the sale 1 of which is forbidden for general use, e is simplv a formal measure, n * ° TUBERCULOSIS CASES S PROPOSAL FOR SANATORIUM r Arising out of a decision of a conference held in Auckland last November that a conference of representatives of the Auckland. Waikato, Thames, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty and Opotiki Hospital Boards be held to discuss a proposal to establish a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis cases, the Auckland Hospital Board last night 3 agreed to ash the Health Department when it proposed to implement the decision. The board further decided to advise the department that it conk sidered the matter urgent and to sug--0 gest that the conference be held at the • earliest possible date. CONCERN IN WAIKATO 1 0 HOSPITAL BOARD'S DECISIONS ? (0.C.) HAMILTON, Monday Concern was expressed at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board today at the prevalence of tuberculosis in the board's districts, especially among the native population. The discussion arose from reference to two nurses at the Waikato Hospital who had contracted the disease and were eligible for a grant from the board of £1 weekly. A resolution that the board inform the Education Department that it was ,f alarmed at the suggestion that tuber--1 culosis was being spread among children t by overcrowding in school buses, and s ask that the matter be attended to, was s carried. It was suggested that the Health Department should inspect the r buses regularly to see that they were clean and properly ventilated. Another point raised was the need for a separate tuberculosis hospital in the board's district. The medical superintendent, Dr H. L. Gould, said that, although there were culosis patients in the Waikato Hospital, they were not all sanatorium 1 cases. It was decided that a full report of I the incidence of tuberculosis in the district bo presented to the board by - experts. 0 -—— ILLEGAL LOTTERY 1 (0.C.) WHANGAREI. Monday 0 A Whangarei barman, Michael 1 Leonard Murray, aged 55, pleaded :i guilty in the Whangarei Court today 1 to a' charge of selling tickets in an - illegal lottery on totalisator numbers. r Senior-Sergeant A. Henderson, who - prosecuted, said that, defendant was r seen by Sergeant Harrington selling 0 tickets in the bar of a hotel. Murray said he was selling on a commission and did not know the name of the principal. On the magistrate, Mr Raymond k Ferner. asking if this was a new stunt, ;, Senior-Sergeant Henderson replied that , such lotteries were prevalent in the t | larger cities, but were now to Whangas ! rei. Defendant was fined £5.