TRANSPORT STUDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1934, Page 3

TRANSPORT STUDY.

BRITISH CONFERENCE. AUSTRALIAN TO ATTEND. With a view to obtaining authority to form in Sydney tlie first centre in tlie Southern hemisphere of tly British Institute of Transport, Mr. M. M. Allen, information officer of the New ftouth Wales Railways, is a through passenger to Vancouver by the Aorangi en route to London, where he will atteiul a conference of the institute. Mr. Allen said that the object of the institute was to rationalise transport. A centre had been unofficially formed in Sydney composed of representatives of all branches of transport. Their aim was co-ordiuation of all transport services—air, land and water. One of the main objects of the institute was to provide transport education and to form a corps of experts whose services could be called upon for advice. Mr. Allen said that one. of the most unusual experiments in the world had been carried out in New South Wales when Mr. Lang was Premier, to bring all transport services of tin State under one administration. The proposal was ' revolutionary and placed 011 its trial, only to be wiped out when Mr. Lang was replaced by Mr. Stevens, who considered the system "too unwieldy." The Sydney bus services had been legislated o(T the roads, but the men who were thrown 011 the dole were being gradually brought back as employees of the State, driving and conducting State-owned buses.