NORTH SHORE’S BUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 16

NORTH SHORE’S BUSES

SEVEN COMPANIES RUN 59 VEHICLES LICENCES FOR PRESENT YEAR “This will mean that two of the three buses owned by the Blue Star Motor Company will have to stop running for a time,” Mr. H. A. Campbell pointed out at a meeting of the No. 2 Omnibus Licensing Authority yesterday. when licences were withheld from two vehicles which had not satisfied the Public Works Department requirements. The department considered the capacity overrated, and the two parties are now in negotiation. Applications were received yesterday from the seven companies serving the North Shore for licences for a tote/ of 59 buses. The largest fleet is that owned by the North Shore Transport Company, which carries the traffic of Takapuna borough. Brown’s Bay, and of parts of Devonport in its 44 vehicles. Sixty-six drivers’ motoromnibus licences were granted. Permission was given Lynch and Halliday, of Birkenhead, to run buses from Devonport wharf to Takapuna racecourse on race days. “During the past fortnight only three passengers have been carried on this trip,” stated a letter received from the North Shore Transport Company, in support of an application for permission to cancel the 8 p.m. trip from Brown’s Bay to Devonport on Sundays during the winter months. The authority agreed that this should be done.