TRANSPORT COSTS
Level Perturbs Mr McAlpine
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, Sept. 8.
The Minister of Transport (Mr. McAlpine) told Parliament today he believed transport costs throughout the nation should be examined by an independent committee of inquiry. Transport costs were becoming unnecessarily high. Dr. A. M. Finlay (Opp., Waitakere) had asked for a break-down of the way internal transport costs affected prices. Mr McAlpine said it would be extremely difficult to give a comparison of the relative cost of road and rail transport. Capital costs and overseas content were only two of the factors which would have to be taken into account. He said he was sure it was not paying many farmers, particularly those on small farms close to main roads, to run their own trucks.. “It would be in the national interest if there were fewer private trucks.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30541, 9 September 1964, Page 3
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