BUS SERVICE TO DURIE HILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 8

BUS SERVICE TO DURIE HILL

EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST INSUFFICIENT SUPPORT Mr G. H. Trott, the Citizens’ League candidate for tne Wanganui Mayoralty, in his addiLss at Durie Hill on Saturday night, staed that a bus service to that suburb had been started in June, 1926, but because of the cost of the service, as compared with the revenue, it had been discontinued in 1929, at same that the council decided to aoa.iuon the Wanganui East and Smithfield routes. In response to strong representation made to the council by the Durie Hill Ratepayers’ Association, the service was reinstated in December, 1930. The support given oy the residents, however, was so unsatisfactory that a week later th? association appealed to its members to make use of the service, and stressed the point that “no doubt this will be the last occasion, should it prove unsuccessful, that the council, buses would run on that route.” Again, early in February, 1931, a further appeal for support of the service was made by the association, but with no better result, and the Durie Hill bus service ceased on May 15, 1931, after nearly six months’ running. “In view of this experience,” said Mr Trott, “I feel 1 should not be justified in holding out any hope of a bus service for this district, unless it, can be shown that the circumstances have materially changed. ’