TRANSPORT SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22122, 28 November 1933, Page 11

TRANSPORT SERVICES

NEED FOR CO-ORDINATION LEGISLATION TO BE INTRODUCED (From Ocb Parliamentary Repobteb.) WELLINGTON, November 27. Proposals which are expected to lead W a better co-ordinajion of the Dominion’s transport services are contained in a Bill to amend the Transport Act which is being considered by the Minister of Transport (Mr J. G. Coates). ihe measure will, it is understood, provide N for the establishment of an independent tribunal to act as adviser to the Govern-' ment, and as the supreme authority oyer the transport industry the reorganisation of transport control in such a way has been under consideration by the Government for the past 18 months. Although the proposals have now taken a more definite shape the Bill is unlikely to be introduced during the present session of Parliament, which has only three weeks to run. The need for such a tribunal was emphasised in the annual report of the Transport Department which was recently laid before the House. The report said that without some form of regulatory control the existing wasteful competition between the different kinds ofi transport must continue, since each section of the > industry was ready to prove that the solution of all the transport problems lay in its securing the whole of the traffic for itself. The report urged the need of a co-ordinating system which would not be predisposed in favour of any one particular kind of transport service, but which would aim at providing transport in the cheapest and most efficient manner for the whole community.