"SERIOTUS HARDSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 12

"SERIOTUS HARDSHIP

TRANSPORT REGULATIONS

The operations of tho Transport Board were discussed yesterday at tho meeting o£ the Domyiion executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. > "We say, Why should the.Transport Board come out into our district and interfere with private enterprise—with contracts between the carrier and the farmer?" said Mr. A. P. Bruce (MidCanterbury). "If either of the two carriers in my district don't suit me surely I can go outside and get any man I like? The Transport Board doesn't allow that." This policy was going to defeat its own end. It simply meant that every farmer was going to purchase his own lorry and was going to run where ho liked. ! Mr. W. W. Mulholland (Canterbury) isaid he had been surprised at tho ! acquiescence of tho farmers in the imposition upon them of '' this iniquity.'' He thought that the Transport Department was basing its policy on an entirely wrong conception of the problem. There wore startling injustices or possibilities of injustices in the regulations. On tho motion, of Mr. H. E. Blyde (North Taranaki), seconded by Mr. H. Morrison (Wairarapa) it was decided that a circular be sent to the provincial executives on the subject with a view to a collation of views for tho preparation of a case for presentation to the board and the next meeting of the executive.