MOTOR TRANSPORT

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4446, 1 May 1930, Page 2

MOTOR TRANSPORT

MU HACKS mix. INI'ORAI ATIOX SOUGHT. When ilie owners oL motor-ve-hicles renew their licenses tin’s year ihey will he asked to supply, as far as may lie possible, information regarding the mileages run by their \ehieles (a) during the vear ended HOI 1 1 April and (t>) during- the life of the vehicle. This information, which from one a spoof; may be regarded as the i|ttanl itative measure of motor transport, activity, is being sought by the Transport Department. It will be used in eonjunction with other statistical data it. shedding' light on the rnntiticutions of motor transport in the Dominion, and will constitute one of rite threads out of .'which an attempt will In- made to weave what for want of a better term may be called a road transport balanceshed.

In mahing’ an announcement, to this effect, the Minister of Transporl (the lion. \\ . A. Witch) stales Hint every effort lots been made to confine the informal ion to what will he within 1 lie- knowledge of every motorist; and that the information is being sought in the manner flint will cause Hie minimum trouble to I hose furnishing it. “The Covernmenl hopes," said Mr Witch,

“ilia! the motoring imlilie will realise thal the figures which tire being sought on a purely voluntary basis are essential if the transport probh m is to he fully understood, and 1 leel sure thal motorists will accord the I tep.urf inenl every ttssis lance possible."