BUS SERVICES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 12

BUS SERVICES

COUNCIL TO DECIDE

HUTT VALLEY INCREASES

The City Council, as the licensing authority in the Wellington district, will this evening discuss finally important points regarding motor-bus services to and from the city. The first application on the list, and that which will concern the greatest number of people, is one from the Railway' Department, asking permission to abolish return fares upon Hutt Valley buses, to place charges upon a mileage basis (which will mean an increase beyond Lower Hutt), and to increase the minimum fare from threepence to fourpence. Thc^Departnicnt proposes to continue the issue of concession tickets at the present prices, but wishes that they should not be available on Sundays (when no trains run) and holidays. Thus, though bus passengers may travel, by purchasing concession tickets, at the same rate during the week, Sunday and holiday fares will be increased to two shillings return to Petone and j Lower Hutt, and to 5s return to Upper Hutt, and there is no alternative train service. * The proposals apparently make no provision for children's fares. At present a child's fare, return, is ninepence to Lower Hutt, but as return fares will go, if the Department's application is granted, and no mention has been made of a half rate concession ticket, it will mean that the child's fare will become one shilling return, or to Upper Hutt two shillings and sixpence return, week days and Sundays alike. The chances of Johnny or Mary coming to town with mother will be very thin, indeed. The other applications are from S. A. Crichton, for permission to establish a service between Wellington and Titahi Bay; from J. A. Hunter, to run an additional bus between Wellington and Titahi Bay; and from J. Peach, for permission to establish a service to Plimmerton.