ROAD TRANSPORT

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4554, 26 February 1942, Page 3

ROAD TRANSPORT

DEALING WITH STOCK MINISTER’S EXPLANATION “I am extremely surprised to learn" said the Minister for Marketing, Hon. J. G. Barclay, “that the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance considers I have been usurping the functions of ‘ the Minister for Transport Whatever action has oeen taken by me as Minister for Marketing and Agriculture has been designed to ensure that coincident with the need to conserve petrol supplies to the maximum, servicing to the farming community, should be placed bn a rational basis to avoid the development of any chaotic conditions. I am vitally concerned with the collection ana transport of export fat stock, and had petrol supplies been cut to the various organisations engaged in this work without at the "same time setting up an organised system, the results would have been disastrous to many sections of the farming community, particularly the small and back-blocks farmer. “The committees functioning at present under my supervision have control over the transport of export fat stocks only, and have been very successful in their functioning and ha.ve not only provided an adequate service to the farming community, but have made some remarkable savings in petrol usage. The framing of the necessary organisation to deal with other classes of livestock is entirely in the hands of the Minister for Transport, and any suggestions I have made in this connection have been made through the Commissioner of Transport and in consultation also with the president of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance."