BUSES CANNOT COMPETE AGAINST SYDNEY TRAMS.
Copies of an article from a Sydney paper, in which it was stated that buses were losing money, were circulated at the meeting of the Christchurch Tramway Board yesterday. The chairman, Mr W. J. Walter, said it made interesting reading. The article was published on June .6, and, inter alia, it stated that, generally speaking. Sydney's bus business was in a bad way. During the week fifty (buses were taken off the streets, and 200 employees thrown out of work. Competition between the buses and the trams had been costing the Government £300,000 a year, owing to the buses running along routes already served by trams. The plight of the bus owners was due to the de luxe type of bus generally in use. and to too much competition. Two companies had already applied for permission to increase fares.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17879, 22 June 1926, Page 12
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