TRAFFIC CONTROL

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 10

TRAFFIC CONTROL

CARRIERS OBJECT TO fi^

QUESTION IN THE HOUSIL ' IiPECIAI TO "IH» Fftiat.") « WELLINGTON, Oetober MIn the House of day. Mr Wilford, on behalf ot tfc J£ lingron branch of the Dominion <Vk Tiers' Federation, asked whetfc* j£ Covernment would refer tho beat, tJ? fie clauses of the Public Work, Amendment Bill to a Committee to tri evidence.

The Minister of Public Wctfa, m * J. C. Contest said he did not the Bill should be sacrificed Carriers' Federation was unable to to evidence, lie could only say that * his opinion nothing was more taW? the interests of the Dominion, &■«» ratepayers, and local bodies thjauT! provisions suggested in the know that, tho Bill had come 4o«>^ and no one regretted it more tiaTS did. The Crown law draftsjnia lu been working on it for nionths/Jkjj! was a difficult and highly techniejjjtof to draft. Kogulations had to be ft**/ ed before tho Bill could come intOMk ation. It was hoped that by nexfcfe sion they would be able to desigamlk thing that would more or less meet|L situation. He thought that OTWtbth recognised the urgency of If the Bill was sent to a Committee ft.' most they could do would he to take «t, deuce for half a day. A CommitteeW already heard considerable evidences the subject, and the master ewrfei had made it clear that any chßMjji tho legislation with regard to hem traffic would meet with their opposite Ho hoped that the House would pu the clauses of the Bill more or leu u they stood, but he was afraid that to send the Bill to a Committee mean killing it this year, and ytoaJj mean a hopeless waste of public noon for another year so far aa the roads tfwj concerned.

Mr Wilforcl said he understood Out the House was going to sit on Saturday as it was not going to sit on lloadnj till 7.30 p.m. He suggested that the Minister should send it. out through tie Press Association that the Committee would receive evidence from D toll,ot from 30 to 12, on Saturday morning. The Minister could set up a small Sub* Committee, representing the three parties in the House, to hear the evident, He was not objecting to anything, in the Bill. He knew nothing about it,

The Prime Minister said, the BiUwii a very good one, and was very urgently required. Nobody who had besn through the. country during tho whiter months would come to any other eftuelusion. He did not think there would be much opposition to. tho Bill.. Soiir as the business of the House waß c,oncorned, the House would sit on Monday night as usual, and it was proposed |i , sit on Saturday morning, or on Saturday at some other time to; take, the Washing-Up Bill. He suggested thit the carriers would find that no injustice would be done to them, and they ne«4 not worry. In any case, if any hatiV ship resulted from tho Bill, it would fe dealt with early next session.