GOODS SERVICE CHARGES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22535, 20 March 1943, Page 4

GOODS SERVICE CHARGES

Regulation On National Basis (N.Z.P.AJ WELLINGTON, Mar. 19. In a joint statement to-night on Goods Service Charges, Tribunal Emergency Regulations, the Minister of Transport, the Hon. J. O'Brien, and the Minister-in-Charge of Stabilisation, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, point out that hitherto the regulation road service charges have been decentralised on a regional basis. In future they will be regulated on a national basis by the Goods Sendee Charges Tribunal, the personnel of which will be announced shortly. The Government says in the joint statement that it was realised from the first that its stabilisation policy would not be fully effective unless transport charges were brought within its scope. The annual cost of road goods services is about £9,000,000, which means that road goods service charges are an important factor in industrial costs. The Ministers added that the problem of stabilising more effectively the costs of road transport operators was under consideration, and, as .soon as a full investigation had been completed, a further statement would be made on this question.