BUS CO.'S SERVICE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 565, 23 June 1933, Page 6

BUS CO.'S SERVICE

A. P.

SMITH,

(To the Editor).

Sir,- — May I take up some of your valuable space to reply to sUme of the impressions which may have been : been created by your report on the 22nd instant in the Borough Council's discussion regarding buses, etc. Dealing with Mr. Banks' statement, '"That the company would not sell concession cards on their buses." This matter was rais^d at the last sitting -of the Licensing Authority by the council's inspector, but after the matter had been fully discussed, he was '.told by the chairman of the licensing • authority that the board was fully in accordance with the principle of selling only at the company's oifice. Why were these facts not known to councillors? In connection with Councillor •Johnson's remark: "It looks as if the company only waited until there was no opposition and then proceeded to do as they liked." Surely an allegedly .well informed man such as Councillor • Johnson must know that in transport matters to-day all vital matters such as fares, routes, timetables, are taken out of operative hands and decided by the licensing authorities Themselves. I would like to say here that in order to overcome any inconvenience to the travelling public, concession cards will, in future, be on sale at terminal points, namely, O. H. Coleman's, Arawa Street; Dolly Varden, Fenton Street, and Mr. Tunnicliffe's store, Whaka. In conclusion I would like to point out that running a transport business to-day and paying 20s in the £ is not the sinecure which some councillors seem to imagine. — Yours, etc.

for the Rotorua Bus Co. Rotorua, 22/6/33. «