TRANSPORT SHOULD FIT TRADE
. Sydney seemed her haitjoui bridge, Auckland may yet do so, bul Christchurch's experts have uttered a loud "No" in response to'thc question whether the Cathedral City would be wise in tunnelling out (road tunnel) to Lyttelton or in making a new port at Sumner. On no ground (says the Press Association report) can the committee of experts recommend either scheme. • • It Would be magnificent; but jit .-is. not economic. A city that can find experts who will report firmly against expenditure they find to be unjustified is a fortunate city. A popular and plausible project is generally one to which politicians cannot say "No"; and the only effective check is a. non-political body possessed, of sufficient courage to meet'a popular positive with a firm negative, and to give reasons for doing so; The world is so full of unpayable debt that unwarranted expenditure out of borrowed money can 'have no 'economic justification unless the underlying idea; is repudiation, j Two things that are overdone in the modern . world, including New Zealand, are debt and transport. Yet there- is still ■ a weakness for: buying transport at a cost,-out of proportion to. trade. To expose this weakness is a task which the independent expert is best fitted to perform.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 6
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