BRITAIN'S RAILWAYS.
FUNCTION OF THE STATE.
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL. j Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 23. Sir Eric Geddes, Minister for Transport, in a presidential address to the Institution of Civil Engineers, said that only England and America based their railway policy on a regime of uncontrolled private enterprise, but even before the war this was yielding in England to the idea of a regulated monopoly, in which State control would take an . administrative rather than a legislative form. None of the transport services was able to exist today on its pre-war revenue basis. On the other hand the community was entitled to a voice in determining charges for services and workmen's wages. Despite talk of chaos, we were well on the way to beat the previous best standard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17429, 26 March 1920, Page 5
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