AUCKLAND TRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 3

AUCKLAND TRAMS

INCREASE IN REVENUE.

INTERESTING LAW CASE

(By Telegraph.—Special to ‘‘Times.’’)

AUCKLAND, April 17. The revenue from the Auckland tramways for the financial year just ended exceeded the receipts for the previous year. The tramway's manager, Mr A. F? Ford, states that the traffic receipts for the year ended March 31st last totalled £591,502, an increase of £13,333 over the return for the prebious jjtfair. He further *la<ted that in. February last the traffic for the year, were estimated to produce £592,000, but that had been exceeded hv over £2500. This return i? specially interesting in view of the fierce ’bus competition tho trams have to meet. On Alonda}’, however, ’buses will bo excluded fiotn t!ie busiest part of Queen street thus preventing then tapping tho best yield of the suburban passengers. Notice has already been give.a by ’bus proprietors that this oy-Uuv will bo contested as unrearun-a-ble in that it favours trams. When iho as:> cones befoie the Supremo Court it will yield vital information an to powers of municipal corporations in cefir.ing routes for ’buses, n. question that awaits solution in Wellington and Christchurch, aa well as Auckland. i