TRANSPORT POLICY.
OUTLINED BY JUDGE FRAZER. AVOIDING WASTEFTJX COMPETITION. PROTECTION FOR THE PUBLIC. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A policy of guiding the decisions of the Transport Appeal Board was outlined, by the chairman, Mr. Justice Frazer, yesterday when he defined the board's view of what constitutes public interest in relation to transport.
A word or two had been said in regard to a monopoly for the Railway Department. His Honor said the object of the Act was not so much to set up a monopoly in favour either of the Railway Department or a rival motor service, but it was intended to check wasteful and uneconomic competition between different forme of transport over the same route. In arriving at a conclusion as to what was desirable in the public intereet they had to consider tho question of wasteful competition. If a more or less luxury service competed with tho railway service then it was undoubtedly wasteful. If tho railway* could give a convenient, faet and efficient service which would supply the needs of the people then obviously anything that cut into that eervice was wasteful and in the long run the public had to pay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1932, Page 9
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