TRANSPORT POLICY
NO CO-ORDINATION YET Railways Always Put First CANTERBURY CRITICISM (By Telearaph—Presa Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 12. The policy of administering th* Transport Act wu attacked by Mr. F. W. Johnston, president of th* Canterbury Progress League, at a conference hjld to discus* th* completion of the South Island Mala Trank line. “Personally I feel that the railway are essential to the well-being of th* community,” said Mr. Johnston, “bet I fear when reading the decisions of th* various transport boards and .the deci* sions of the Transport Co-ordinatioe Board that the policy of both is that the Railways have got to be supported at all hazards. In other words, I fed that co-ordination has not started and that the way the Act has been admini** tered is repressive so far as road trans* port is concerned, because too great consideration has been given to till
railways. “It looks as if the railways have to be saved almost to the extinction of road transport and to the detriment of the country at large, both commercial and pastoral,” he continued. “I mens tion that because in the question of road transport, is bound up the ques* tion of the South Island Main Trank line.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 231, 12 September 1934, Page 7
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