TRANSPORT LAW

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 10

TRANSPORT LAW

BILL NEXT SESSION

MEETING OBJECTIONS

It is understood that one of the main items on the Gov eminent's legislative programme for uesxt session will be a Transport Bill. A -lready considerable pressure has been; brought on the Government from inwiy directions for the passage of a Bill; that would enable a scientific system, ,'iof co-ordination of road and rail traifie to b^e put into effect, and it is bolieved that the Government does not1 intend to defer tho matter any longer. The need for a Transport Bill was emphasised yesterday by the Minister of Railways (the 'Hon. AY. A. Veitch), who referred to thij: great national waste which was resulting from unnecessary competition between rail and road tran sport. The Government, it is stated, intends to give local bodies and others interested every opportunity of studying the provisions of the jproposed Bill, and it is likely that the Bill "will bo distributed at an early ,<jiate. The main principles of the Bill have already been settled. The first Transport Bill was introduced by the then S/linistor of Transport (the Hon. W. A. Veitch) in 1928, but owing to the grcaii opposition that was expressed to a nuunber of its provisions it was passed in a skeleton form only. By taking those effected into its confidence at as early a date as possible, the Government hapes to overcome much of the opposition | and be in a position to pass a measure that "will do away with the many difficulties at present being experienced.