TRANSPORT CONTROL
Rec. noon. CANBERRA, this day. The Commonwealth Government has taken over complete control of all road transport in Australia, including horse vehicles. Its object is to ensure that all available transport is fully mobilised to carry war goods and vital foodstuffs for soldiers and civilians and to transport men. The Director-General of Transport, Sir Harold Clapp, can direct owners Ito use vehicles as specified or pool them to create one service. He can order them to pick up and deliver to a specified place any class of goods or to transport people. Power has also been given to requisition vehicles or parts thereof, horses, petrol, oil, harness, fodder and accessories, for which compensation will be paid. , To speed up loading and of railway trucks the Gov ®£Jl]i vj C has ordered that c,ei ?' lurr^ g ?„aHed or charged if a truck is not loaded or unloaded in one day. Renter's World Scrvlcc, [By special arrangement. «« f information. In addition to othw „eaa inteUiIs used in uie aU rights gence published „ .-h New Zealand are reserved, therein In AustraliathST pa«e as is so Such of the cable ® The Tixnee. tod is sent beaded has »PP e »"£ Jf pSnisslon. It should be to by axe not tho^ol & Stated to be -J
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 171, 22 July 1942, Page 5
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