BRITAIN PREPARED.
IN EVENT OF EMERGENCY. Received March 29, 1.45 p.m. LONDON, March 28. The Minister of Transport (Dr. E. L. Burgin) has disclosed thab the Government will take over all the railways in war time, and strictly control the roads and curtail private motoring in order to conserve petrol. It will provide adequate food trsnsport for the more remote districts. He added that the docks and shipping routes presented countless problems. but plans were being prepared to maintain the essential services.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 10
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