Compared with the City Council s operating costs of 16.90 d per bus mile, including 13.99 d for actual running expenses, and 2-19 d for capital and other charges, the- chairman of the New Lynn Town Board (Mr W L. Titchener) said at a public meeting in Auckland that there were private companies operating on some ot the longer routes which had runninz cost* iu the vicinity of lod,- and were makinp! a profit on their undertakings He said that men, working double t ; me on the old (J.O.C. buses, got £7 10s a week, and the City Council was paying £ll for the same conditions. Under the city time-table, 183 minutes were lost daily by each of six buses on the Henderson run in waiting time and, with the high rate of wages paid, he considered that excessive.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 8
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