BRITAIN'S TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S TRANSPORT.

GOVERNMENT CONTROL ATTEMPT TO WRECK BHL. LONDON, July 30 (delayed). There was considerable interest in the House of Lords' debate on the Com mittee stage of the Transport Bill, wher notice was given of a long series 01 amendments confining , the scope of the bill to railways and inland waterways Lord Salisbury led the opposition to tin measure, and moved the wrecking motion empowering the House to dividi I the bill into two parts, the first dealim with railways, and the eeeond dealin; with tramways, roads, and bridges, ant vehicular traffic thereon, harbours docke. and pier?, the House to repor on each bill separately. He said Si Eric Geddee' administration system o transport in connection with communica tions in France, however juetifiable il war time, would ruin the country 1 followed in peace time. Lord Lytton, in replying, said Lor. Salisbury's motion was without prece dent. The Government in the circuni stances would accept the responsibilit of carrying into law part instead of th whole bill. The motion, if insistc j upon, might precipitate a constitutions crisis of the first magnitude. j Lord Salisbury's motion was rejecte> (by 110 votes to's9.— (A. and N.Z.) i