IRISH FREE STATE BUS STATISTICS.
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MIIE statistics for May, relating to road-motor passenger services, which haVe recently been issued by the Irish Free State Department of Industry and Commerce show that during the month 152 companies or proprietors were operating. Of these 76 had gross receipts of under £100; 28 had receipts between £100 and 1199; 24 between 1200 and 1499; 10 between £500 and 1999 ; and 14 of 11,000 and over.
Great increases were shown for the month and for the first five months of the year in the number of vehicle-miles run and in the number of passengers
carried. In May of 1928 1,217,129 vehicle-miles were run, as 'compared with 1,963,699 in May of 1929. In the first five months of 1928 the number of vehicle-miles run was 5,278,211, whilst in the'first five months of the present year the figure was 9,228,048. In the first five months of 1928 10,314,557 passengers were carried and in the same Peried of the present year 18,591,615.
Gross receipts from passengers do not show a proportionate increase. For the first five months of 1928 receipts totalled 1201,354, whilst this year they were £298,089. On cross-border services, how ever, there was a proportionately greater increase, the figures being 18,115 in 1928 and 111,663 in 1929. Indeed, during the month of May passenger receipts on cross-border services rose from £1,901 to £3,055. Average passenger receipts per vehicle-mile continue to show a de
crease in all sections but one. The average for May of 1929 was 8.5d., as compared with 9.5d. in 1928. The only case in which average passenger receipts increasedwas in connection with crossborder services. In May of 1928 the figure wag 7.01d. and in May of 1929 It rose to 7.38d.