CO-ORDINATION NOT BEGUN

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 7

CO-ORDINATION NOT BEGUN

CANTERBURY ATTACK MADE TRANSPORT ACT ADMINISTRATION. TOO MUCH THOUGHT FOR RAILWAY REPRESSIVE TO ROAD TRANSPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Sept. 12. 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 the various transport boards and the decisions of the Transport Co-ordination Board that the 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 has 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 will have to be saved almost to the extinction of road transport and to the detriment of the country at large, both commercial and pastoral. I mention that because in. the question of road transport is bound up the question of the South Island main trunk line.”