CITY TRANSPORT SERVICES
BOOM PERIOD EXPERIENCED EFFECT OF PETROL RESTRICTIONS The restriction on the use of private cars through the curtailment of petrol supplies has had a marked effect upon the numbers of passengers carried by the city tram and bus services, particularly at the hours when business people are travelling to and from their work. The manager of the Transport Department (Mr W. H. Mackenzie) said yesterday that something of a boom period was being experienced on the trams, but it was as yet too early for the full effects of the petrol restrictions upon the transport services to be gauged. The transport staff had suffered considerably through the calling up of the National Reserve, Mr Mackenzie said, but a number of applications for employment in the service had been received and in due course some new men would relieve the position to some extent. It was not proposed to make any alterations to the bus services in the meantime, because all the buses used by the Transport Department were Diesel-driven. The holidays of tramway employees had been cancelled in the meantime.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24793, 18 December 1941, Page 6
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183CITY TRANSPORT SERVICES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24793, 18 December 1941, Page 6
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