TRANSPORT PROBLEMS.
IMPERIAL COMMITTEE SET UP. (Australian #resa Association —United Service.) Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 9. The Rt. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery has appointed & committee responsible to the Rt. Hon. W. Ormsby Gore, consisting of Sir James Currie, Sir Henry Fowler, General D. Hammond, and Mr Herbert Diblett, to study all aspects of transport benefitting the Oversea Kmpi re Committee. It hopes to evolve a large mechanical transport unit, not confined solely to good roads, hut capable of increasing the customary load and reducing the ton per mile transport costs. The Marketing Board and the participating overseas Governments will share the expenses. llie board is advancing the entire amount required for the first year. It is proposed ultimately to create an oversea mechanical transport committee, representing the Imperial, Dominion, Colonial, Indian, and Sudanese Governments.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 11
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