CARRIERS CONFER

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1929, Page 5

CARRIERS CONFER

HOSTILITY OF MOTORISTS 11 Another matter I feci obliged tx> refer to is the hostility which tire motorists organisations are showing towards ourselves. -Why that should be so I am at a loss to understand. Never at any time has our federation done anything prejudicial to the interests of motorists, yet we see that a suggestion is being made by one or two representatives of the motorists that we arc endeavouring to secure relief by foisting further taxation on to the motorists. That is not true. We are not concerned with the motorists and have never suggested increased taxation on cars. Had we done so, we might have strengthened our ease for relief very iconsiderably as most of the opposition we have encountered has been due to a 'desire to maintain revenue, but we nave studiously avoided reference to the position of motorists. It is a great pity that the motorists 1 organisations should have see®. fit to strike a discordant note mere particularly as it arises out of an unwarranted -suspicion. It would have been much more charitable of the motorists to have credited the commercial owners with the sense of fairness that has been a feature of their representations right through. I trust, however, that the feeling of suspicion now existing in the minds of motorists will be dissipated as a result of theh- working with our representative on the Advisory Council, and that they will show along with us an ardent desire to cooperate with one another and with the Government in a united effort to place transport on a satisfactory basis. “I need not refer to the other matters which have occupied the attention of your executive during the year as they aix? referred to in the annual report. I should like, however, to express my intense gratitude to my colleagues on the executive and the secretarial staff for the loyal manner in which they have supported me during my term of office. Each and every one of them has rendered most valuable assistance and made my office of president an extremely light ene to discharge and my tenure of office a happy and pleasant one. ANNUAL REPORT z The president moved the adoption of the annual report. After detailing at length the efforts made to secure a reduction in motor taxation the report staes, inter alia, that: “The United Party on assuming office immediately recognised the existing anomalous position under which officers of the Public Works Department having control of reading expenditure are also in control of road taxation on commercial vehicles, and performed, the .statesmanlike action of establishing a new Transport Department. The portfolio of Ministry of Transport has been alloted to the Hon. W. A. Veitch and the executive has every confidence in Mr Veitch administering transport matters in a businesslike manner. At the moment the detailed organisation cf the new Transport Department has not been made known, but the creation of a Board representative of the various transport interests is a move in- the right direction. “Fo» lowing on repeated protests by |tho Federation to the Railways Department—these extending over a period of eighteen months—against the penal rate fixed in respect of goods consigned by a forwarding agency to a forwarding agency for distribution at destination; the Railways Department decided to abolish the penal rate in question. ROAD CLASSIFICATION “Repeated representations were made during the year against the system of road classification in vogue but nothing was done by the Government in the matter. However, road classification will no doubt receive consideration along with taxation matters by the new Minister of Transport. “The federation made a general protest to the Government against the increasing activity of State and local body trading but with no tangible result. It is confidently expected that /the new Government will discourage .'any increased activity in public trading since the Prime Minister has made a public statement to that effect. “As the Government Statistician’s figures as to the number of motor registrations were misleading inasmuch as the number of registrations shewn included dormant licenses—that is to say, licenses nor renewed—and the public were inclined to regard the figures as to motor registrations as being indicative of the vehicles in eoimimission, the federation asked the Government Statistician to be good enough to show along with the registration figures the inclusive number of dormant registrations or licenses. This the Government Statistician readily agreed to do and is now doing.”

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THE RETIRING PRESIDENT’S ♦ ADDRESS. POINTS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT CREATION OF TRANSPORT ; MINISTRY The annual meeting of the New Zealand Master Carriers and Uustoms Agents’ Federation was held yesterday in the rooms of the Wairarapa Master Carriers’ Association. The opening address of the president, Mr E. Smith, of Christchurch, and some extracts from the

annual report are given below. “In extending a welcome to all of you,” said the president, “I desire to say that it is a matter of great pride

to me that during the past year the federation should have _achived so much in its endeavours to secure relief in the matter of taxation. The ere Jit in that connection is almost wholly due to the secretarial staff which., with bull-dog tenacity, has hung on und never let up. There were times when the apathy of the Government almost disheartened me, but perseverance appears io be bringing Its reward. It is true that as yet no relief has been granted but Ministerial statements give the impression that relief of some kind is assured. A WELCOME INNOVATION “The Government has acknowledged the importance of transport by it under independent control and that action is approved by all of us. The creation of an Advisory Transport .Council is another welcome innovation and it behoves every section of transport to do its utmost to make the Amctioodng of the council a success. X have observed that certain sections

of transport are clamouring for greater repre-sentation on the council and that is to be regretted. If any section of transport is entitled to greater representation than another it is the commercial section, but I realise that to make the council larger would make it so unwieldy as to defeat its purpose. It must not be forgotten that the ■council is advisory only and that it has no arbitrary powers of any kind. That being so there is no need for the representation of one section being than of any other.