Transport will change ’slowly’
Transport users should play the main role in determining the services to be provided, the Secretary for Transport (Mr R. J. Polaschek) said in Christchurch. In seeking a new national transport policy, the Governiment would move slowly in
changing current procedures) jand organisations, Mr Pola-| ischek told the Chartered) Institute of Management con-j ference. “Dramatic and rapid, change could be excessively) disruptive to patterns of pro-: duction and distribution that: have grown up under the: existing system,” he said. Transport should not be’ (viewed in isolation from other: (economic activities. “This is something which producers'would do well to remember before they criticise the transport industry. Too often, they establish their plants and begin production, then look around for transport services to meet their requirements.” The interim report on I transport. released last month, did not represent aj step towards nationalisation; of the transport industry. I Principles would be put into) effect gradually, and would) lead to a situation where all' transport, whether private or) Government-owned, would > compete more equitably.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34009, 25 November 1975, Page 21
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