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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952

Bus Services

Bus services on the island are maintained by the China Motor Bus Company Limited operating a fleet of 170 vehicles. During the year buses on the island ran approximately 6.8 million miles, an increase of about 11% on the figure for 1951, and carried over 49.2 million passengers, an increase of about 6.7%. A new city service was started between Tai Hang and West Point, and concession fare monthly tickets for school-children were introduced in September.

The services established by the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. in 1933 operate in Kowloon and the New Territories. There was considerable improvement during the year and the Company now has 355 buses in service, of which 125 are double-decker, and 230 single-decker buses.

A new bus route, from Shamshuipo Ferry to Kowloon City was added to the service, thus bringing the total number of bus service routes to 23. During the

year the company carried approximately 148 million passengers and covered 153 million miles.

The delivery of a large fleet of new buses has made possible the withdrawal of all the temporary vehicles that were in use.

Ferries

The "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd., operates a passenger ferry service across the narrowest part of the harbour, a distance of approximately one mile, from a point in the centre of Victoria to Tsim Sha Tsui at the southern extremity of Kowloon Peninsula. Six vessels are in service and operate daily for 19 hours. A five-minute

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