THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8496, 1 August 1933, Page 3

THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION

NEW ZEALAND'S ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICES IN COMPETITION WITH RAIL By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, this day. In view of recent judgments given in transport appeal cases at Auckland motor service organisations are expressing grave concern for the future of road transport. They consider that the Transport Licensing Act definitely tends to eliminate all road competition with the railways, the public convenience notwithstanding.

“We have now reached the parting of the ways in regard to road transport,” said Mr H. J. Knight, secretary of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance, and the White Star Tourist Services, Ltd., in a statement to The Dominion yesterday. Wo now have a definite interpretation by a final authority as to the conditions under which road services will be permitted to function. The judgments in recent transport appeal cases appear to make it clear that services which compete with the railways will not be permitted. We do not question these judgments, of course, but we do claim that the Act urgently requires amending if road transport services are to continue.”