ROADS AND RAILWAYS
CONTROL OF COMMUNICATIONS GOVERNMENT BILL OPPOSED. LONDON, March 19. The Transport Bill was read a second time by the House of Commons without a division. Mr. Bonar Law said the bill meant the repudiation of the whole past economic policy. It represented the first great scheme for reconstruction. They must act quickly to avert disaster.
There is growing Opposition to the Y\ ays and Communications Bill. Nearly 300 members of the House of Commons find also Chambers of Commerce, local authorities, and tbe Transport Workers' Union have protested agains the farreaching proposals, particularly the inclusion of roads, and against "the Minister's dictatorial powers, enabling the Minister to purchase and operate ways of communication through Orders-in Council.
The prime movers in the opposition are the road users, especially commercial and private motorists, who fear that the antecedents of Sir Eric Oeddes as a railway manager will cause him to favour the railways at the expense of the roads.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 68, 20 March 1919, Page 5
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