WAYS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
i OPPOSITION TO THE BILL. | (Received 19, 2.50 p.m.) i London, Mar. 13. I There is growing opposition to the Ways, and Communications Bill. (Nearly 300 members of the House of | Commons, also Chambers of ComI merce, local authorities and tran«I porters’ Union make protest against | its far-reaching proposals, particularly the inclusion of roads and I Minister’s dictatorial powers enabli ing a Minister to purchase and operate ways and communications through orders in council. The prime movers in the opposition are the read users, especially commercial and private motorists'. They fear that idir Auckland Geddes’ anjtecedcnts, as railway matiagets, will (cause him to favour railways at the 'expense of roads.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 80, 19 March 1919, Page 6
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