TRANSPORT MINISTRY.
UNWELCOME PROPOSAL.
PROTEST IN CHRT STCHURCH.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTGtL URCH, Monday. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting this evening to consider the Prime Minister's proposal to establish a Ministry for Transport.
It was resolved: "That the council of the chamber protests most vigorously against the suggestion made by the Minister of Kail ways in his annual statement that a Ministry for Transport should be established principally for the purpose of controlling motor transport, the grounds of the protest being (1) That the country urgently requires a decrease and not an increase in the overhead cost of the Public Service; (2) that .the proposals are in direct opposition to the forces of progress and individual enterprise, to which New Zealand owes its prosperity."
The meeting also recorded its strong dissent from the- system of leaving too many matters legislated upon to be further dealt with by Order-in-Council.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 9
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