CO-ORDINATION OF TRANSPORT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 16 June 1930, Page 2

CO-ORDINATION OF TRANSPORT

STATEMENT BYT MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day, "New Zealand, like other countries, has had motor transport superimposed on the existing transport services,'' said the Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister ot Transport, during an interview on transport co-ordination. "There have been and will be resulting derangement in the economic equilibrium, and at the present time the arrangements of various services having regard to the national welfare, is one of the outstanding economic problems. In the United States, where motor transport has reached a higher pitch than anywhere else in the world, regulation by the State has been resorted to as the best measure suitable to meet the situation. The Home country is about to follow suit, while South Africa apparently sees in regulation a practical solution. The fundamental problem is the same in those countries as it is in New Zealand, with perhaps this difference—that in New Zealand we have a very much lower population per mile of road and rail, and by virtue of our higher foreign trade per bead of population are more in need of highly organised transport facilities. With the experience of these other countries and the result of investigations carried out by officers of the Transport Department as a guide, the time is ripe for legislation to enable a system of regulation, that has been carefully adapted to suit this country's requirements, to be brought into existence."