CHRISTCHURCH-TIMARU TRANSPORT SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22389, 30 April 1938, Page 20

CHRISTCHURCH-TIMARU TRANSPORT SERVICE

TO THE CDITOB Of I'HB HRBK» Sir,—Having read in your columns lately of a controversy between Mr Humphris and Mr Semple, I have been waiting expectantly to see the result as I understand that the Transport Authority was sitting in Christchurch recently. If the outcome is still in doubt, I should like to place my views and the views of a very large number of business people in South Canterbury, before those interested. In the first place I say emphatically that the Railway Department never could and never will give the same service, attention, and above all, the courtesy,that the transport people afford. Take Humphris Motors, for instance. If I required an urgent order from Christchurch, whether large or small, upon mentioning it to any one of Mr Humphris's most competent drivers, the order was as good as delivered. On March 3. 1936, Mr Semple stated that it was not the intention of the Government to interfere with any wellconducted, established transport operators. Now I defy anyone to say that our Christchurch-Timaru transport service could be improved on. Mr Semple says he is out to give the greatest good to the greatest number. If that is so, and he is sincere, let him take a census of opinion of the business people of Timaru and. Geraldine, and he will soon find what they consider ihe greatest good. Mr Humphris has Jeen serving us faithfully for a good number of years now, and if he is pushed off the road by a State-control-everything Government, Mr Semple will find that there will be a good deal of pushing next election from this district.—Yours, etc., „ HANDS OFF HUMPHRIS. April 26, 1938.