TRANSPORT POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9

TRANSPORT POLICY

ADMINISTRATION OF THE ACT UNDUE CONSIDERATION TO RAILWAYS (Pee United Press Association) CHRIStCHURUH, September 13; The policy of administering th* Transport Act was attacked by Mr F. W. Johnston, president of ,the Canterbury Progress at : a conference held to discuss the completion of the' South Island Main Trunk line. ■ "<?

“ Personally, -1 feep that the railway* are essential to the well being of tha community,” said Mr Johnston, “ but I fear when reading the decisions-of the various transport -boards, and’ the decisions of the Transport Co-ordination Board that the policy of both is that the railways have got to be supported at .all hazards. ••’•-.-.j “In other words, I feel that coordination has not started, and that tha way the Act has been administered is repressive so far as road transport i« concerned because too great consideration has been given to the railways. It looks as if the railways have to be saved almost to the extinction of road transport, and to the detriment of : the country at large, both commercial and pastoral. I mention that because the question of road transport is bound up with the question of the South Island Main Trunk line.” ,