ROADING REPORT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27035, 9 May 1953, Page 5

ROADING REPORT

Approval By Chamber. Of Commerce

“COMPREHENSIVE, SOUND” RECOMMENDATIONS

Whether the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce should approve the Roading Investigation Committee’s report was discussed by the council of the chamber on Thursday. A motion requesting the Associated Chambers of Commerce to urge the Government to adopt the report without reservations was finally carried without dissent. Mr R. C. Neville, moving the motion. auoted from the report and said that, lough it had its faults, it was a comprehensive and sound report. The council should be hesitant in giving its approval to the report in foto, said Mr F. W. Freeman. The Treasury, the Transport Department, and the New Zealand Counties’ Association had all made submissions, and he considered the Couhties’ Association’s submissions the most important. The adoption of the report would have the effect of setting up another central authority—the Ministry of Works—and this would be “bureaucracy in the extreme.” Mr Freeman suggested that the report should be referred to the chamber’s transport committee.

Opposing Mr Freeman’s view. Mr Neville said Mr Freeman obviously spoke as a member of a-county council. If there were objections by various organisations to “this clause and that clause” in the report, it would never be implemented. Mr Neville’s motion was then put to the meeting and carried.