ROAD TRANSPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 8

ROAD TRANSPORT

OIL COMBINES' DICTATION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED DR. PAGE SPEAKS OUT (Elce. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received October 27. 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 26. Speaking at Ihe opening of the an. nual conference of the Country Press Association, Or. Earle. P.i'ge. acting Prime Minister, deall with the transport, question, lie declared that the progress of road locomotion in Australia was being hampered by the operations of foreign oil combines, and! charged Ihem willi bleeding Australia) white, holli in pence and war time, and endeavoring to rlictnte the developmental policy of the. country. The progress of road locomotion had been handicapped by tTie large toll foreign oil combines had levied on the Commonwealth. The Government had decided that this unnecessary handicap should not he allowed to continue indefinitely. Tin Government was prepared (o iighi this foreign dicta!ion of policy and exploitation to a finish. Though these companies had captured the legislature in many other countries in which they operated, they would notl be able to work their will in Australia, which would not allow them to take the savings that a national plant of transport would enable us to make.

The association's annual report advocated the necessity for consideration of the quick despatch and receipt of press cables. The secretary's report pointed out that the price of newsprint had riot been materially reduced through the grnnling of preference thereon to Canada, ll was only a few shilline)F n. lon Icoo than the best price for I'rii-ish-roadc paper—jupt- sufficient lo cot. business.

The report adUs that the effect of allowing the largest makers of newsprint in fiio world! to dump their surplus paper into Australia had a most damaging effect on the movement to make Australia, self-contained in its newsprint requirements. It upset the original calculations of those concerned in establishing the newsprint industry here.