MOTOR TRANSPORT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18048, 17 June 1930, Page 7

MOTOR TRANSPORT.

AN ECONOMIC PROBLEM

STATEMENT BY MINISTER. TIME RIPE FOR LEGISLATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Monday. “New Zealand, like other countries, has had motor transport superimposed on the existing transport services,” said Hon. W. B, Taverner, Minister, of Transport, during an interview on transport co-ordination. “There have been, and will be, resulting derangements in the economic equilibrium, and at present an arrangement of the various services, having regard to the national welfare, is one of the outstanding economic problems of the day. In the United States, where motor transport has reached a higher pitch than anywhere else in the world, regulation by the State has been resorted to as the best measure suitable to meet the situation. The Home County is about to follow suit, while South Africa apparently sees in regulation a practical solution. Fundamentally the problem is the same in these countries as it is in New Zealand, with perhaps this difference, that in New Zealand we have a very much lower population per mile of road and rail, and by virtue of. our higher foreign' trade per head of population are more in need of highlyorganised transport facilities. With the experience of these other countries the result of investigations carried out by 'Officers of the Transport Department as a guide the time is ripe for legislation to enable a system of regulation that has been carefully adapted to suit this country's requirements to be brought into existence.”