ROAD TRANSPORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 7

ROAD TRANSPORT

STRICT CONTROL JUSTIFIED ADDRESS BY MR. S, S. ALLEN [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday Tho work of tho Central Licensing Authority in regulating road transport in New Zealand was discussed by Mi". S. S. Allen, of Morrinsville, acting-chairman of the .authority, in an address given- at a meeting; of tho Hamilton Rotary Clnb to-day. Mr. Allen said lie considered the regulation of road transport, was one of thfl most important problems the country had to face. Xf strict control were not adopted the country would find itself involved in exceedingly heavy expenditure on road maintenance and in a much greater loss on tho railways than was being experienced at present. Referring to the railways, Mr. Allen considered the most economical method of dealing with transport was to maintain the exist ng service so long as it was useful. He thought both passenger and goods vehicles should be restricted oil roads such as the Great South Road between Auckland and Hamilton, where a excellent train service- ran at all hours of the day. It was a question whether a road passenger and goods service on this highway was warranted at all. Mr. Allen quoted instances where road services weio warranted and where be considered they should b'3 restricted. The goods service problem was much more difficult than that relating to passenger services, for the goods services did not "necessarily run between any two given points. Personally, he preferred the zoyin" system, whir-h provided that only those vehicles ruining out of a defined area should bo licensed.