TRANSPORT OF GOODS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21398, 24 January 1933, Page 11

TRANSPORT OF GOODS

THE NEW REGULATIONS MODIFICATIONS TO BE MADE [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTEB] WELLINGTON, Monday Various modifications of the regulations for the conduct of goods services, which were tentatively issued last year under the Transport Act, will shortly be announced by the Government. These modifications, which have resulted from a series of conferences held between the Transport Department and various transport interests of the Dominion, will tend to make the regulations more flexible and more easily worked. They - will be discussed at a final conference which may be convened in Wellington this week. It will be recalled that when the regulations were circulated toward the end of last year the acting-Minister of Transport, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, invited criticism of the regulations before they were issued in their final form.'Many objections were received and these were grouped into three classes, as follows: (1) Objections to the need for any such regulations; (2) objections to the regulations being made by Order-in-Council; (3) objections to the details of the regulations, such as length of tenure of licences. When these objections had been carefully considered bv the Government a conference was called with the various interested bodies, namely, the Municipal Association, the Counties' Association and representatives of the motor traders, transport interests, etc. The conference is reported to have been more or less agreed upon the necessity for some regulations and the advisability of making them by Order-in-Council within the limits provided by the Transport Act. Regulations by Order-in-Council, it was argued, allowed greater flexibility in the working of the Act, since the necessary changes could be made in them from time to time without recourse direct to Parliament, which might or might not be sitting when they were required. The detailed objections have been carefully re-examined by the department and by the Government, and in the light of these the regulations will be modified in such a way as to make them more flexible than the transport industry in the first place anticipated.