RIVAL OF THE RAIL
ROAD TRANSPORT BUSINESS (.Special lo tin- Ucrnß) WELLINGTON, this day. The steady decline in railway receipts recently announced is due principally to n factor which low prices for primary products will nol explain away. Figures availa' le from the Department of Transporl show how substantial is the hnsinc s conducted hv road veliic les in competition against the rail. The private iar. giving tremendously improved travel facilities, has developed the "travel habit," bill the .rain has not gone to (be railways, because there is a car to every ten persons in New Zealand to-dav, compared with one to every 17 in the year 1925. Motor trucks in iA?. r > were estimated to l;o s'v h):[ a freight service equal to 43,0C0,0C0 ton miles per annum The same enumeration to-dav places the tori mile factor at over 200.C90.C00 miles. Service cars on the longdistance routes are nol serious tonnietitors of the rail on a nrice 1 a is. but their elasticity in providing convenient transporl has given them the advantage. Motor transport unices on defined routes in the North Island emplov 776 cars, while those on the South Island utilise 303 cars.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17455, 2 January 1931, Page 11
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195RIVAL OF THE RAIL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17455, 2 January 1931, Page 11
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