NEW ZEALAND LAGS
Parliament shirked one of the chief tasks set for it last session—transport legislation. After definite and emphatic declarations from Minister after Minister (Reform and United) on the urgent need for action, no action was taken. Extracts from "The Times Trade Supplement" which we publish elsewhere to-day show that action has been taken in other countries. South Africa has made a transportation survey, preparatory to checking futile competition. In America the private railroad companies are demanding that Congress shall intervene to check unfair competition. The references show that the troubles experienced in these countries are similar to our own. Motors are taking the high-rated railway traffic and leaving the railways with the low-rated business. Unequal competition by motors running on roads for which they do not pay adequately \is making it difficult for rail transport to continue payable operation. If New Zealand were not aware of these things we might say that the references contained a lesson for us.. But New Zealand should be fully aware of the facts. The country is, afflicted" with the blindness of those who will not see. What the Government, and both sections of the Opposition also, need is not a miracle to open their eyes, but an emphatic, and even violent, incentive to force them forward.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1931, Page 8
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