ST. HELIER'S TRANSPORT

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1930, Page 6

ST. HELIER'S TRANSPORT

PUBLIC omixy OR P SITit , : ENTERPRISE. . ■'* (To the Editor.) ' • The discussion of the Transport * respecting the manner m which the Sf Bay should be served'ought to' Pn i£u elitt V" ; those who read it. Some members ouely of opinion that the board selves to carry out all services n™ %> gerous doctrine, and the position of ways to-day should be sufficient to hH home ! to everybody. A local transport board conducts its operat' n borrowed capital, and if any improv^ 01 " 611 of transport comes along it cannot i to take it up, because it is existing loans. In consequence it w' > j opponent of any fresh or improved of transport, and if we continue to 1 these Socialistic lines we shall fall Z? | same passivity that China is painful!?. ing from. There is another point which??;' ■< be noted, of even greater importance. far does it coincide with justice that nn'.« 1 should be left to decide whether thev J ? body else should conduct the service? if?'" bus companies apply for the right to service where only one is- wanted itl generally left to one of those comiJiJ 1 ? decide which it shall be. In the present!? - stance the Board is kkinAt $ itself to ibe : judge m its own - case r ' is clear that a board which is to decide on u "• methods of transport throughout an should not itself be the owner the competing systems. ACCOUNTANT