TRANSPORT COMPETITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 149, 26 June 1931, Page 7

TRANSPORT COMPETITION

ADVANTAGE WITH MOTORS SOLUTION IN CO-ORDINATION AUCKLAND, Juno 25. The growth of expenditure on railway transport and tho increasing competition between rail and road transport were two of the problems dealt with by Air W. A. Gray in an address on “Transport Problems in New Zealand,” which he gave at a meeting of the Economic Society of New Zealand and Australia last evening. Tho advantages which the railways possessed over the canals—convenience, speed and flexibility—were the basis on which motors wero challenging the railways said Air Gray. Alotor transport hud already proved its claim to be tho most effective allround form of transport yet invented, and most of the cxpenirdituro on it could easily bo justified. 1 ‘Ah between roads and railways, the recognition that the former now offe in the main a more efficient, system docs not solvo the problem,” concluded Air Gray. “For a long tiino to come co-ordination must be sought between the rival methi ds, but not. to the extent of eliminating competition.”