COUNTRY SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 6

COUNTRY SERVICES.

The eon-ntry dweller realises that he mast make many aa.irrifiees in wax time, and he h-as marie them, and made them willingly. Bat he sraffera many disabilities as compared with tbe eifcy dweller, and he baa the rigftfc to demand when atill further saeriftees are imposed that tbey shall not |yreaa tneqaitably trpon him aa eiomparerl with the general population. Fo-r years the farming eommHnity betwi»p-Ti here and Rotoraa na.ve iiad tbe advantage of a- asef ol and profitable road service wfakh baa offered those ; along the highway a ready meana of: peTcSonal ac«esa to tte main centres, and a qtriek, efficient and cheap delivery of machine parts and smaller farm requirements. Xow the clock is to be put back and the facilities which have proved invaluable are to be withdrawn. The reason <nven is the necessity for saving , petrol. It is well known that tfae Railways Department has ran some of its shorter services without petrol, by the n-se of producer gas, and the system has been well tried out in Australia on longer runs. Seeing that the service under death sentence has proved so profitable, it would probably be able, if permitted, to carry on. If the Department finds that it can continue the service while obeying the command to discontinue the use of petrol it will have an undeniable case for a withdrawal of the cancellation of the order. I