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CONTROL OF ROAD TRANSPORT

Does Government Plan Socialization? MR. HOLLAND REPLIES TO MINISTER

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, February 1. “It is amusing to read Mr. Semple’s declaration that it is not the intention of the Government to socialize the transport industry and that socialization was never even contemplated by the Government, said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Holland. "Mr. Semple appears to have conveniently overlooked the objective of the Labour Barty, which is socialization of the means of production and distribution (which includes transport) and exchange. He says that the only thing he is against is cannibalistic competition on the roads. I can think of no better example than the past gobbling-up of privatelyowned transport services by the Railways Department. “I wonder if Mr. Semple will tell us how many motor-vehicles previously operated by private enterprise have been absorbed by the State in the last five years, and also if the public could be told: (1) How many private-ly-owned services have gone off the road since 1935; (2) how many Stateowned and operated services have gone off the road in the same period; (3) how many new, privately-owned services and how many State-owned services have come on to the roads during the same five years. “It is all very well to talk about conserving petrol as a war measure, continued Mr. Holland, “but the important tiling to remember is that practically all the socializing that has taken place happened before the war broke out. It would give some indication of the extent that State operation of transport has grown if the Minister would inform the public of the quantity of petrol actually used by the Stalo for the years 1935 to 1940. “411 we want is to see reasonable co-ordination, but the public knows when a reduction in the services takes place it is invariably the privatelyowned service that goes and not the State service. It is also significant that, where privately-owned road services are in competition with seaborne trade they are left alone, but when in conjunction with the State-owned railways they are wiped out.”

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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 8

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CONTROL OF ROAD TRANSPORT Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 8

CONTROL OF ROAD TRANSPORT Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 8