BUSES IN SYDNEY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, May 3. When, 21 years ago this week, a ma t ' walked into the Sydney Traffic Office and sought a license to operate the first motor buses known to this city, tho puzzled policeman behind the counter discovered that neither in law nor in the regulations was there any provision for such a vehicle. It marked the birth of services tn Sydney to-day with an annual turnover of nearly £5,000,000, yet the pioneer of them would find it far more difficult to-day to get a motor omnibus plate from Die Traffic Department than he did 21 years ago. The fact is that the Government has no time for the privately-owned buses, because of the mighty cut which they have made into the tram takings. Tho constant threat of governmental interference must be perturbing to those with huge capital in the bus services. Their one crumb of comfort probably is that, while they cannot expand, at all events along the main routes, it will take a fortune to buy them out, and that the Governmen is about as impecunious as a Government can be. One private company alone runs 90 buses.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 50
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198BUSES IN SYDNEY. Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 50
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