TRANSPORT MINISTRY
A CANTERBURY PROTEST By Telegraph.—Press association, Christchurch, October 3. At a special meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce to-night to consider the Prime Minister’s proposal to establish a Ministry of Transport, it was resolved that the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce protests most vigorous! v against the suggestion made by the Minister of Railways in his annual statement that a Ministry of Transport should be established, principally for the purpose of controlling motor transport, on the following grounds:—(l) That the country .urgently requires a decrease and not an increase in the overhead cost of the public service; (2) that the proposals are in direct opposition to the forces of progress and individual enterprise, to which forces New Zealand owes its prosperity.
The meeting also recorded its strong dissent from the svstem of leaving so many matters legislated upon to be further dealt with by Order-in-Conncil. .
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 9
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