TRANSPORT CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 11

TRANSPORT CONTROL

TIME FOR" REGULATION

THE MINISTER'S OPINION

{By Telegraph.—Press Association.) " DUNEDIN, This Day. "New Zealand, like other countries, has'had motor transport superimposed on existing transport services," said the Hon. W. B. Taverner (Minister of Transport) during an interview on transport co-ordination. "There have been, and will be, resulting derangements in tho economic equilibrium, and at the present time the arrangement of the various services, having regard to national welfare, is one of the outstanding economic problems of tho day. In the United States, where motor transport has reached a higher pitch than anywhere else in the world, regulation by the State has been resorted to as the best measure suitable to meet the situation. The Home country is about to follow, suit, and South Africa apparently sees in regulation a practical solution. "Fundamentally, tho problem is tho same in these countries as it is in New Zealand, with perhaps this difference, that in New Zealand we have a very much lower population per mile of road and rail, and by virtue of our high foreign trade per head of population, are more in need of highly organised transport facilities. With the experience of these other countries and tho result of investigations carried out by officers of the Transport Department as a guide, the time is ripe for legislation to enable a system of regulation that has been carefully adapted to suit this country's requirements to be brought into existence."