WAIKOWHAI BUS RUN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 6

WAIKOWHAI BUS RUN

STILL NO FINALITY

QUESTION OF ROUTE There Is still no finality in the handing over to private enterprise of the Waikowhai bus service by the Auckland Transport Board. The board has two applications under consideration. Mr. M. YV. Karew and Mr. F. Coe both desire to operate the service provided they may run through Buckland Road. The transport manager, Mr. A. E. Ford, however, is disinclined to allow private buses in Buckland Road for the reason that further inroads would be made into the board’s revenue. Both applicants * off er to run their buses from Commerce Street along Anzac Avenue, Grafton Bridge, Park Road, Mountain Road, The Drive, Buckland Road, Mount Albert Road and Hillsborough Road to YVaikowhai Park. Mr. Coe has stated that if the board will not relinquish the Buckland Road route he is willing to run a service to Hillsborough and YVaikowhai, via Mount Eden and Three Kings Roads, provided that he is granted all other services to Hillsborough and YVaikowhai, Sundays included. At yesterday’s board meeting both applicants stated definitely that they were not prepared to undertake the YVaikowhai service unless their conditions were acceded to. Mr. E. H. Potter said he considered that Mr. Ford’s stipulations were “rather drastic.” By depriving the applicants of Buckland Road they would be deprived of a great part of a profitable service.

On Mr. Potter’s motion, it was agreed that the board-in-committee should reconsider the whole position.