TO PROTECT RAILWAYS
TRANSPORT LEGISLATION
A SOUTHERN CRITICISM
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The policy of administering the Transport Act was attacked by Mr. F. W. Johnston, president of the Canterbury Progress League, at a conference held to discuss the completion of the South Island Main Trunk line. “Personally, I feel that the railways are essential to the well-being of the community,” said Mr. Johnston, “but I fear, when reading the decisions of various transport boards and the decisions of the Transport Co-ordination Board, that tlie policy of both is that the railways have got to be supported at all hazards. In other words, I feel that co-ordination has not started, and that the way the Act lias been administered is repressive, so far as road transport is concerned, because too great consideration has been given to the railways. It looks as if the railways have to he saved almost to the extinction of road transport, and to the detriment of the country at large, both commercial and pastoral. 1 mention that because, in the question of road transport is hound up the question of the South Island Main Trunk line.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 6
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192TO PROTECT RAILWAYS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 6
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