FUTURE OF MOTOR TRAFFIC

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7

FUTURE OF MOTOR TRAFFIC

SIR JOSEPH WARD'S

BENEDICTION.

(BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)

MARTINBOROUGH, This Day. The importation, of 500 motor chassis by the Government was advocated by Sir Joseph Ward, Leader of the Liberal Party, at Martinbprough last night. The bodies for those motors, he said, could be built in New Zealand, and the vehicles could then be made available for the men and women of those parts of the country who had no railway facilities. Tl^e charges on those vehicles could be at the same rate per mile as on the railways. Petrol motor services were now being used to an extent never dreamed of before the war. America had taken the lead, France wa-s making arrangements, and in England the scheme was , prepared, even if it were npt actually started. The encpuragement of the necessary motor services was. a part of his' policy, and in this copnectipn he wished to say that unless the people importing petrol into the country would allow consumers ip secure 'it at a fair price, he would favour the State taking control.