THE BUS PROBLEM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17177, 29 October 1926, Page 7

THE BUS PROBLEM

AFFECTING RAILWAYS t > . . __ DEPARTMENT'S COMPLAINT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Railway Board wrote to the City Council as the licensing body under the new- Act requesting it to reiuse licenses for motor buses competing with ihe Hptt railway, on the ground that an adequate service already existed. The by-laws committee did •ot agree, as many portions of the Hutt ai.d ketone towns.were "several miles *rom the railway line, and it was considered that the buses were maintaininng a much I 'better time-table.

Comment was made on the fact the , letter was only received on Wednesday anQ, that, this was the first known of any dissatisfaction on the part ot the , department It was pointed out that the'City; Councils had got the Act passM'to protect themselves, aud it. was only logical that the Government.snould want to do.the same, to which it was "retorted that no mention of the railways was made in the Act, and the Government should have looked after itself. • It was admitted that the branch line through the Hutt Valley might make -a difference, and a better position to some etxent, but meanwhile it was considered that the buses catered i' >r a large number of people not served by the railway, and the council adopted the committee's report licensing the existing buses, but refusing fresh applications.