TAKAPUNA BUSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 11

TAKAPUNA BUSES

NEW ONES NEXT WEEK “NORTH SHORE TRANSPORT CO.” FLOTATION IN PROGRESS The North Shore Transport Company will probably be the name of the new company which will control land transport on the North Shore. Actually the Devonport Ferry Company will have the controlling interest in the land transport, though nominally it will own the harbour transport only. Next week two new buses will replace some of the limousines on the Devonport-Milford run. These buses were specially made by the Dennis Company for the Dunedin Exhibition and they are expected to arrive from the South this week. After slight alteration they will be placed on the road. The limousiges will be replaced as new buses which are ordered come to hand. The flotation of the new company is being financed by the Ferry Company. It will take over the motor-buses operated by Mr. A. H. Smith, the four purchased from the Takapuna Company and the new ones. If the scheme to establish the trolley-buses is adopted the transit company will, of course, undertake it. The Devonport Ferry Company’s operations will be confined to running steamer services. The old applications to run services between Devonport and Milford and Devonport and Belmont are on the agenda of the meeting of the No. 1 Motor Omnibus Licensing Authority, but since they were put in the Transport Appeal Board has requested the licensing authority to consider the question of Takapuna transport de novo. The solicitor for the Ferry Company, Mr. G. E. L. Alderton, has written to the licensing authority stating that the new company is being incorporated.