TRANSPORT SERVICES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 4

TRANSPORT SERVICES.

Co-ordination Board to be Set Up Soon. The personnel of the new Transport Co-ordination Board is likely to be announced by the Minister of Transport (the Right Hon J. G. Coates) next week, according to Mr J. S. Hunter, Commissioner of Transport, who paid a short visit to Christchurch yesterday. The board is to be set up under authority of the Transport Amendment Act which was passed last session. Its principal purpose will be to examine and report to the Government on all phases of transport co-ordination. It will also assume the authority of the Transport Appeal Board, which is to be abolished. Under the same Act, there is permissive power to reduce the membership of the Central Licensing. Authority, which deals with transport licenses affecting more than one district, to one member. Mr Hunter was unable to say what steps were being taken in this matter. When the new board takes up its duties of considering the co-ordination of transport throughout the Dominion, it will be faced with a great many interesting and difficult problems which have not been solved by the present machinery. It will have power to recommend the co-ordination of all kinds of land, sea and air transport and, being absolutely independent, will be able to view the railway system of the Dominion in an unbiased manner, and recommend for or against existing railways in the same way as road services are now controlled.