THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT AND PRIVATE MOTOR BUS SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21650, 21 May 1932, Page 15

THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT AND PRIVATE MOTOR BUS SERVICES

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I desire to express my entire agreement with the views expressed by your correspondent “Justice” in your issue of the 19th inst. regarding transport to Lawrence. The Railways Department, in pressing for an increase in the bus fares on the daily service to and from Dunedin —a service from which it is now withdrawing and which evidently it does not want —appears to have acted with that entire disregard of the public which lias lost it so much goodwill in. the past. One wonders if the Transport Board has been set up merely to do its bidding and if the board is to become another useless and expensive burden added to those of which tlie country has already more than enough.—l am,, etc., Traveller. Lawrence, May 20. to the editor Sir, —People in this locality may be pardoned for scarcely recognising the railways as their “solid friend.” “Dog in the manger ” seems a better title, since the department has succeeded in forcing up service car fares so that in an ordinary way one cannot use them, and has completely eliminated the only service that was of every day use to us. We now have two trains a week, both in the mornings, absolutely useless to us as passengers, and not a single train through from Dunedin. Granted that we are a mere handful of people, if the railway authorities had no intention of themselves catering for us, then they had no business to force up service car fares and cut out a paritcularly useful afternoon car. —I am, etc., Cbaioellachie. Beaumont, May 19.