TRAM AND BUS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18409, 16 June 1925, Page 9

TRAM AND BUS.

COMPETITION IN. WELLINGTON.

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WELLINGTON, Jnn© IS.

In addition to tbo privately-owned omnibuses that will soon bo running in the Wellington streets, tho City Corporation is also going in for this stylo of passenger transport. While the Kaiwarra trackless tram waa being overhauled recently, tho City Council did well with a motor bus that took its plate, Two other now motor buses will oo completed within a fortnight. They aro now in tho band* of tho varnishers, and should bo ready for the road about tbo end of next week, lu addition to these, nino other chassis were ordered a month ago, so that in a abort period tho Council will havo quite a fleet of buses ready to awitcb. on to any ser< rice where they may be required. What with the ordinary city trams, the track* leps tram, and the competing linea oi omnibuses, ' the Wellington public sfrould be well served. The Mayor says, that the public and tho ratepayers of Wellington need have no fear that private enterprise in the way of bus service in Wellington is likely to have any serious detrimental effect on tho municipal undertakings. "We are in a position to meet all the competition which is forthcoming,!. I 'lie said; "and the Tramways Committee is at present considering the whole problem'/'lt is possible that the Council will find their own buses competing with their own tram sen-ice in places. i do want to suggest to the public that wo are absolutely alive to. the position, and that we are quite m a position to meet it.. There will be few T>lae«*i in Australia or ISew Zealand bettor served than Wellington when tho complete programme ot the Tramways' Coityraittee is crystallised.