BUSES IN ALBERT STREET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 1

BUSES IN ALBERT STREET

MR. JOHN FULLER SOLVES TRANSPORT PROBLEM IDEAS FROM ABROAD “When moving pictures first came to Australia we didn’t cry out that the show business was ruined and wring our hands. Yet when the modern bus system comes to New Zealand there is a tremendous upheaval.” Mr. John Fuller, the theatrical magnate, who has just returned from abroad, had something to say on many things including buses, trams and prohibition this morning. He criticised the counter bus regulations saying that the Dominion must realise that a good bus system contributed tremendously to. tho prosperity of the town. It encouraged people to come into the cicy, spend money, and buy more goods. No attempt should be made to limit transport facilities; they should be assisted. Outlining his scheme, Mr. Fuller said he would have buses running in Albert Street and trams in Queen Street. All transport should be controlled by a board, on which neither the tram nor the bus interest was represented. “With your slow trams not adequately covering the city, you are deliberately keeping people away from the town,” he declared. “PROHIBITION NOT BRITISH” His experience in America has convinced Mr. Fuller that prohibition “is not British.” The greatest argument against prohibition was that in France and Germany, where there was unlimitel scope for drinking, he never saw a drunken man. When he first went to America he saw no drunkenness there, but now it was common. French and German people, he declared, have changed tremendously since the war. “There are no moustaches now and no effeminate manners,” said Mr. Fuller. “They seem to be getting more like the British.” He is convinced that New Zealand will never become a Socialists country; there are too many individual property rights. The way to stop a Socialistic government, he said, was to have an upper house elected by a wider franchise than the lower house. This had been done in South and Western Australia. “As I toured the world I became more and more convinced that New Zealand was the most thoroughly civilised country in the world,” he said. “Everything here is done in the proper way. There are set-backs, it is true, but thej’ will be overcome.”