BUS SERVICES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 4

BUS SERVICES

CHANGES PENDING

NUMEROUS HEAVY CUTS

Bus services operating between the city and outlying centres will be drastically curtailed, and in some cases cancelled, in consequence of the decision of the No. 1 Licensing Authority. Mr. E. J. Phelan, has announced. The changes are to be made within seven days, but most services will not be altered until next Monday because passengers are carried on weekly tickets. It will be necessary to make further reductions if the tyre and benzine position dictates additional economies. Road Service Suspensions Road services between Auckland and Hamilton, and Hamilton and Rotorua will be suspended until further notice, and some week-day trips and all Sunday services on the Auckland-Tuakau run and a number of trips in the Clevedon-Papakura service will be cancelled. Special trips on P. V. Flexman's AucklandWaiuku service will be knocked out, and on Sundays Waiuku and Papakura only will be served by train connections. Saturday runs between Bombay and Drury will be cancelled. The Auckland Transport Company s Auckland-Otahuhu-Papatoetoe service and the Church Street, Penrose to city service will be cancelled. At night Monday to Thursday inclusive the services from Papatoetoe ana Otahuhu to the city will finish with the 7.20 and 7.30 o'clock buses and the last bus from the city to those places will leave at 8.30. All Sunday services on all the Transport Company's routes will be cut out. All the services of the Suburban Buses, Limited, running between the city and Papatoetoe, via Onehunga, Black Bridge, and Mangere Central will be cancelled, with the exception of two direct runs in and out of the city, morning and evening. Intervening ruhs will be supplied by feeder services connecting with the Onehunga tram terminus. All Sunday services on these routes will be eliminated. North Shore Passengers North Shore residents will also be affected by the new economies. Some trips on the Devonport-Milford run will be cancelled, with certain substitutions on week-days and Sundays.

Pirate Shippe and picture theatre "specials" will no longer run and some trips on the Devonport wharfKing's Store service will be amended. The Sunday DevonportChurch Street service will stop, and on week days there will be some curtailment.

The Grove Road and Stanley Bay time-tables will also suffer. The Northcote-Milford service will stand, but there are numerous changes in the Northcote-Birkenhead service. Albany-Birkenhead, and GreenhitheBirkenhead services will be reduced, as will the Birkenhead-Pupuke Road and the Beachaven-Birkenhead timetables. Auckland-Bucklands Beach and Cockle Bay-City services will likewise be sliced.

Tourist licenses suspended include Johnson's Blue Motors, Limited and P. Canning's. Summer schedules will be cancelled for the Mount-Albert-Auck-land-Piha run, and the BeachlandsAuckland route. There will be amendments to the Kawhia-Auck- , Leigh-W arkworth-Auckland Auckland-Waiwera, and ManlyAuckland timetables. On the Auck-land-Karekare run part of the route will be eliminated, and the OstendPalm Beach service, on Waiheke Island, will also be reduced.