CANDIDATES GALORE

Northern Advocate, 3 October 1930, Page 6

CANDIDATES GALORE

N.S. WALES ELECTIONS,

ONL.Y ONE UNOPPOSED

(Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 2

Nominations for the New , South Wales general elections on October 25 (have closed. There are 270 candidates for 90 electorates. Only one candidate is unopposed. The National Party is contesting 42 seats in the metropolitan area and 23 in the country. Labour is contesting' 48 metropolitan and 4G country seats, while the Country Party is contesting 22 exclusively rural seats. The Communists are putting forward 52 candidates, of whom five are women. Australian Party nominees and Independents comprise the balance of the aspirants.

That road and rail traffic be co-or-dinated, legislation to be enacted to provide for the establishment of suitable authority to make regulations for the license, control and regulation of motor transport, throughout the Dominion. That where new lines are constructed for the purpose of developing settlement, or assisting industries, they should be regarded as “developmental linos” and full and accurate accounts of all costs and earnings bo kept separately and altogether apart from the General Railways Account, and any losses should be met out of the Consolidated Fund.

That the department be dcpcftitiealisod and the railways be administered by a Board of Directors with full powers to control the operations and staff and be responsible for the results obtained.

NEW SCHEME OF CONTROL.

WARM APPJSOVAL,

SYSTEM OVE RC APiT ALT SET),

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.)

AUCKLAND, This Day

The proposal to remove the railways from political control was warmly commended by Mr M. Stewart, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, which lias advocated this step for several vears.

Mr Stewart said lie felt confident the proposed board could make larger savings than the Commission suggested. The whole question of economics would have been better left to tho proposed, board, but. he welcomed the suggestions as far as they go. , Increased fares and freights he regards as inevitable. The heavy deficit annually was partly due to the fact that the railways were overcapitalised, hut the Department was faced with further additions for capital works, including the Auckland and Wellington railway stations, •Westfield deviation and seven new lines. These uncompleted lines should be slopped, unless it was proved that they will pay.

“The railway deficit is our most serious financial problem today,” concluded Mr Stewart. -“The loss is too heavy and really constitutes a Budget deficit,”