TRANSPORTED!

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13178, 10 February 1936, Page 4

TRANSPORTED!

TRANSPORT BOARD TO CEASE. MINISTER’S LATEST EDICT. Electric Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM. Last Night. The whole transport system * s most unsatisfactory. declared the Minister of Transport, Hon. K. Semple, in announcing an immediate suspension of the functions of the Transport Co-ordination Board pending the enactment of new legislation reconstructing the scheme of transport control. “The Transport Board is to issue no more licenses or hear any’ more cases of any kind. In other words, they don’t exist as far as their functions are concerned.” the Minister explained. He said he early appreciated the need of co-ordinating rationally the road, rail, sea and air services in the best interests of the country generally’. Therefore he had conferred with Cabinet which had set up a, committee comprising Messrs Shllivan. Langston an<i Semple, with the General Manager of Railways, the Commissioner of Transport, and the chief engineer of the Public Works Department*. This committee was making a complete investigation, and had cabled Queensland and South Africa, as well a,s other parts of the Empire, seeking information on transport experiences and laws to assist in drafting fresh. New Zealand legislation, which it was hoped would be ready for next session.