TE AWAMUTU COURIER. Printed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, 28th MAY, 1937. A KEY TO ALL ENTERPRISE.

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 6

TE AWAMUTU COURIER. Printed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, 28th MAY, 1937. A KEY TO ALL ENTERPRISE.

AN orderly arrangement to secure an economic servicing and a proper utilisation of available transport faci lities is the underlying purpose in processes of licensing. This is revealed in a study of what is taking place in Te Awamutu this week. It is the corrective for all that developed years ago before regulatory systems were devised to end both the excesses of pounding the roads with much needless traffic and com petition which threatened the complete annihilation and break-down of transportation services. When applied to transport of a purely local or district character there can be no two opinions as to the need and efficacy of the new system. In the main it promotes order where only collapse threatened. But it is evident that the regulatory processes will require to extend further before a thorough survey of district facilities can be made and the uneconomic drift be arrested. But with the licensing completed to the extent that the Authority is at present enabled to carry it there will next arise the necessity to schedule the cartage rates. Already the Minister of Transport has requested that this be done, and the onus is on all affected interests to give earnest and early thought to the assessment. The ideal is td make transport a public utility and to stabilise it on the basis of an efficient service. In this there is already much which can serve as precedent, and in the southern provinces farmers and commercial interests have reached full and complete agreement with the carriers. Not only are charges scheduled, but methods are devised for the fullest possible utilisation of vehicle mileage and truckcarrying capacity. It has meant, in some instances, the review of the road classifications to permit greater loading, and in this regard the assurance of early permanent surfacing in this locality is a factor which can be turned to account. Very certainly the need just now is for collaboration between farmers and business organisations and the carriers to probe the problems and find solutions—promote an orderly and planned transport throughout the district with a rating structure which has been systematically studied and devised. The elimination of overlapping and waste, the stabilisation of a service which is a key to all enterprise, and a proper dovetailing of service with acknowledged needs cannot be attempted too soon. It calls for understanding and co-ordinated effort. Following what the Licensing Authority has done this week in the assessment of an adequate servicing, the Chamber of Commerce could well further the effort inaugurated a few months ago to focus district opinion in a concerted movement for the systematic rating and utilisation of authorised transport.