RAILWAY POLICY.
VIGOROUS CRITICISM. EVILS OF POLITICAL CONTROL. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND. February 27. " The opportunity is at hand for a statesman to arise and have this great trading. concern, the Railways Department, employing £55,000,000 of public money, placed upon a fair commercial basis and entirely freed from political control and all the evils which such control carries with it.” These remarks were contained in the address of the retiring president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce (Mr -H. T. Merritt) at the annual meeting of the chamber to-day.' “Little more can be said about the railway policy of the Government, but in view of the wholesale condemnation of some of the proposed policy works the obstinacy with which these works are being prosecuted is inexplicable.” Mr Merritt continued. Mr Merritt suggested that the Government, instead of squandering public money on capital works of doubtful value or worse, might well spend money on land settlement and development, "about which so much has been said and so little done.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19300228.2.10
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 3
Word Count
169RAILWAY POLICY. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 3
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in