TRANSPORT CONTROL

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 8

TRANSPORT CONTROL

1 THE NEW PORTFOLIO. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. '•NOT TO FIGHT MOTOR TRAFFIC." CdtiDW 11.1. AND COMMON sK.NSK.

i ;;.v T"l> L-r;i;>Ti. - r,c<s As-pnclnflnn.) \VA\CAN 11. I hi- diiy. I lie l|>.ii. \V. A. Vcitdl was a-ke.l |ii.ihi\ h\ .i W.iii-.-atnii ■■Herald" reporter Ir> \\ h;il lln new pert t"i >I in of Milllr-1 iT of Tr:ii.-;'.M applied, Mr. Vcilch replied: '■ I I'c MWii-.iiT i- tin!, hitiiiir fo be =o Jfm !i l| ;l, 111 p< Hi-la ii:i il l-iil||p|:-le [lolil'V ji ml -v -Mm n\ in -.i n:-.tt inn at llii* stit;.>e. .Ali r.pi v mi-cneepl ion-, have arisen sis (~ what l!: ,, creation of ilie new purtI'lilin i.l" 1 i .1:1 -i".i I, implie-. -.line ha villi; flu- •11 ■.:. i r-mii llial. il i- I" l>e ill the u.iliirr nf a .-t ni'j'jie I'm , e.\i-tcuce on Llio s\-lcii! >■!' 'I , nil devil, pull baker,' HH |wl wi-.-ii I !n- i.iilu.iy an>l motor tran*|i>.r! -. r\ ii >■-. A- a mat lit of fact . the I'nrciiiM- i fe;i I lire nt' Ihe wnrk will be C\aci . \ ill Ihe opposite dirt-i'l ioll. •ii i, nut iniciideil to continue <he rlVi.ii-. liitherlo ma>le to >nppre~s motor liaii-pi'il, by ta.Mition in ;i futile ell'ort In force Ira flic on to the rails, but by 1 lie- applii'ali I" •_'>iodwill and coimnon MMi-e, anil wiflir.ut eonipid-ion of un-.nei-es-arv ititerferenoe with the rights of jieop'le." He beliovcd il was 1o correlate motor trallie with the niil- ■\\ a \ i -o that both iniuht serve the people better than hitherto.