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Otago Witness, Issue 3763, 27 April 1926, Page 51

On Thursday night a resident of Anderson’6 Bay had his attention attracted by j the manoeuvring of a corporation motor bus dr-ver. The driver pulled up near , the telephone box in the vicinity A Gavell J street, entered and usee, the telephone, ‘ came out' again, pulled his machine into / t’ e kerb, dimmed his lights, and waited, f The watcher also waited. Some minutes ' elapsed, and then a privately-owned motor bus came .along from Dunedin on the way j to the Bay. It was trailed by two corporation motor buses, and the stationary { bus quickly came to life, and joined in i the game of “dodge ’em.” The watcher y now had a clue He continued to wait, f Back came a corporation bus with a few passengers; then a tramrar packed to the ) door, then the bus with about seven passengers, and then the two remaining corporation bus practically empty The position may be elucidated. 1 The policy of the Dunedin tramways depart*’* ment is the same as that which is in force in every other centre in the Dominion. - In Dunedin definite instructions have been given to the tramway men that if a privately-owned bus is noticed to be travel- , ling on a tram route steps are to he taken • the corporation buses to combat the impending ‘ompetition. The Dunedin tram- , ways department intends to continue to carry out this policy with the utmost vigour. If, however, the privately owned buses ply for hire off the tram routes they , are not shepherded by the corporation buses. It is said that a game something akin to “hide and seek” is indulged in at times by the drivers of the privatelyowned busee and the drivers of the corporation buses. The former start off with the object of reaching their picking-up place by devious ways or with t,he solo object, of fooling the opposition, and somo exciting incidents have resulted a* a consequence. The position may be summed up in a statement of one tramway official. f He said that no one would surest for a 1 moment that the Dunedin Corporal on was going to put down good roads and Irani • line*, and run cars on them at enormous cost, and then permit privatelyowe- 1 buses to come along, use these roads, and “pirate” the passengers from the tram cars without a stern fight.

Sixty years ago the name of Dr Burns was a household word in Otago, and among other duties which he preformed he conducted the opening service al the West Taieri Presbyterian Church on the morning of April 25. 1866. For several months past the present minister of the parish (the Rev. David Campbell) and the people f of West Taieri have been preparing for the diamond jubilee of the church, and on Sunday morning last a special thanksgiving service was held in order fittingly to celebrate this notable anniversary. A social reunion took place lasi evening. Whether larger grants for school needs / will follow the appointment of a new Minister of Education was a niatt.r briefly f discussed by members of the Wellington Education Board the other day. Mr G. T. London said that from the list of grants before the board it seemed that the department was adopting a “go-slow policy” in regard to the requirements of the Welling- j ton, district. Quite a number of matters j were held in abeyance, and in one or two cases tbe grants fell below the amounts 1 that had been tequested and were considered essential. The grants might be taken as a reflection on member* of tbe board, for not pressing their needs more vigorously. He hoped that there would be an improvement next month. The chairman (Mr T. Forsyth): “We might get a lot more from the new Minister. Of course, it depends on who the new Minister is.” Mr C. I. Harkness: “You want a new policy. That’s what you want.” The Chairman: “Oh. that’s an old Liberal cry.” Mr G. T. London: ‘There are a few Liberals on the board. ' Mr Harkness i “Yes, and don’t forget it.” His Honor Mr Justice Sim, sitting in Chambers in the Supreme Court, Wellington, has granted probate : n connection with the following deceased estates William Fiddes, Dunedin (Mr H. E. Ba.rowclough); Joseph Harvey. Dunedin (Mr W. L. Moore); Ada Sargison, Goodwood (Mr John Wilkifison); Georgia Francisco Almond Sargeant, Owaka (Mr R. R. Grigor); James M'lndoe, Dunedin (Mr J. M. Gillies); William Duncan, Kaitangata (Mt R. R. Grigor); Mary Jackson. Hillgrove (L . T. A. Borton): Charles Dickson Wilson, Dunedin (Mr J. S. Sinclair); Elizabeth M‘Donald, M‘Nee, Dunedin (Mr A. C* N. Stephens); Stephen Leslie Carey. Ettrick (Mr E. A. Aslin); John M'Guffog, Kaitangata (Mr G. J. Kelly); Louisa Hawkins, Dunedin (Mr H. R Barrowclough); Thoa Bennet, Portobello (Mr John Wilkinson)*