"PRETTY DRASTIC"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 28 March 1936, Page 13

"PRETTY DRASTIC"

PROVISIONS OF TRANSPORT AMENDMENT BILL STATEMENT BY MINISTER Before file Minister of Transport (the Hon. I!. Semple) introduces his Transport Amendment Bill to the House o! Representatives major concerns in the industry will be acquainted with its provisions. A promise that this would be done was given by Mr Semple in an interview. The Bill bad not yet been submitted to tile Cabinet, the Minister said, but when it had been dealt with there it would not be presented to the House until the interested parties bad bad an opportunity of discussing it." “This will be my first Bill,” said .Mr Semple. “H is now ready to be submitted to the Cabinet, blit it will not go to the House until I have redeemed the promise I made some time ago to the major transport organisations that ihey should be allowed to know wliat was in the Bill before it went to the House. I do not propose to call a- conference in Wellington, but I will ask the representatives of the major concerns to meet me. “Some of the proposed amendments are pretty drastic, buTT think they are necessary and that they will bring about that correlation and co-operation of transport services that is so much desired,” Asked whether it was proposed to provide for the co-ordination of coastal dripping services, the Minister said that was not his immediate intention, but if (lie Bill went through unamended it would confer authority on him to bring about that result if it was considered necessary.