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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 71

A new scheme of tramway sections and fares has been adopted bv the Auckland City Council, by which it is estimated that the loss on the year’s working will be reduced to £5300, compared with £39,000 last year. The council is accepting the responsibility of taking over all the necessary and payable transport services within the tramway area and within the area served by undertakings taken over under the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act, 1926. Increased revenue is obtainable by thei shortening of the sections to a large extent, by the reintroduction of a penny cash fare for the shortened sections, and by rais-» ing tho price of all concession tickets, except those for workers and school children. Buses will be used as feeders to the trams. This dees not apply to the running buses away from the tram routes.