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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 177, 29 July 1942, Page 6

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REVISED BUS HOURS

MAIN SHORE ALTERATIONS

Health, wealth and wisdom in even larger measure should in future accrue to Milford, Takapuna, and surrounding districts as a result of the earlier-to-bed possibilities of the amended bus services on the North Shore.

Under the amended time-table, from Monday to Friday, the last bus, connecting with the 10.40 p.m. ferry from Auckland, will leave Devonport at 11 p.m.

Homing Takapuna-Milford residents, missing the last Devon port boat, will still have another ten minutes in which to catch the last ferry, leaving at 11 p.m. for Bayswater and connecting with a bus leaving Bayswater at 11.15 p.m.

For the inward journey the last bus to connect with a Bavswater boat will leave Milford at 10.15; another bus leaving at 10.45 p.m. for Bayswater does not connect with a boat. The last bus for Devonport to connect with a boat to Auckland, will leave Milford at 10.30 p.m. Saturday travelling to and from the Shore, however, will remain unaltered except for the half hourly consequential alterations. Sunday Services The main Sunday alterations are that the service has been reduced to approximately hourly, and will connect with ferries at Devonport only. The Sunday service via Bayswater is cancelled. Milfora-bound Sunday travellers may catch their first bus from Devonport at 8 a.m. and the last at 10.20 p.m. (10 p.m. ferry from Auckland); while on the inward journey the first will leave Milford at 7.30 a.m. and the last at 10.30 p.m. Brown's Bay and Castor Bay The main alteration in Browwi's Bay services will be the deflection of the Sunday running to Devonport with an amended time-table. Only minor week-day alterations and cancellations have been necessary. A number of cancellations have been made in the Castor Bay services, which, on Sundays, will be run in conjunction with Brown's Bay services. Onus On Public In the complete absence of any alternative public means of transport these services have suffered a minimum reduction, but it is pointed out that as overloading would tend to negative the efforts at saving tyres, and as many buses are already fully loaded in peak hours, the public should in its own interests, avoid using peak-hour services wherever possible.