“WILL BE NO INJUSTICE”
PRIVATE INTERESTS MINISTER’S ASSURANCE IDEAL OF CO-ORDINATION (Parliamentary Reporter.) • WELLINGTON, this day. “There will be no injustice while I am Minister,’’ declared the Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Transport, in the House of Representatives last night, prefacing his references to private transport interests. These, he said, had grown up under the law which allowed them some rights, “and those rights,” he continued, “will be protected so far as I am concerned. I said that to the transport people. I know that if I was a carrier and the Government of the day set on me, threw me on the Toadside, and crucified me—l know ■what I would think of them.”
As for the Opposition criticism, he admitted that they had their rights, but he strongly objected to the imputation. of-foul motives.. The transport system bristled with difficulties, and he had sympathy with any Minister who had tried to control it in the past. The original Transport Act was good, but the Co-ordination Board sabotaged it. There were many wonderful provisions in it, and the Act was well drawn, but where the former Minister met his Waterloo was when he appointed the Co-ordination Board, which let him down. He had heard nothing good of them in any part of the country, and the fact was that an incompetent and “ungetatable” board spoiled the legislation. The task to be faced was to bring about co-ordination, for it was not a question of road versus rail, or against the air. To-day the air service was a minor question, but he believed that it would become a major one in a few years, because the development possible was beyond the dreams of most of us. They must dovetail all services into the other, preventing cutthroat competition, waste, and sweating, organising all in such a way that the people would receive a higher degree of efficiency and the cheapest, speediest, and best form of transport. The bill was read a third time without division.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 5
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