AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT
SWEEPING ECONOMY PROPOSED.
EFFECT OF POLITICAL MEDDLING.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Rec. 10.30 p.m. Canberra, March 9. Arising out of the recent conference of the railway and transport authorities, whose aim is to furnish recommendations for co-ordinating the rail and transport systems of the Commonwealth with a view to sweeping economies and the elimination of duplication, Mr. Heath, who has conducted the investigation on behalf of the Commonwealth, has. submitted a report in which, inter alia, he urges that all railway systems should be made independent of political interference; also a drastic reduction in the number of authorities controlling industrial conditions. Mr- Heath emphasises that the railways are over-capitalised, while the financial statements do not disclose the true facts of railway operations. The report admits that motor transport has bad an adverse effect on the railways generally, and particular reference is made to* the unsatisfactory state of the New South Wales railways due to political meddling.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 7
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