HON. GOW'S VIEWS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 350, 11 October 1932, Page 3

HON. GOW'S VIEWS

BETITER METHODS WOULD BRING BETTER BUSINESS. When aslced for his views as to the opinions expressed by the "Post" in referenee to an amplification of the service given the Bay of Plenty by the East Coast railway, the Hon. J. B. Gow said that he was pleased to see that the matter is being ventilated, for he believed that with better methods a very considerable accession

of business might be brought to the railway. "In my opinion," he said, "people in Auckland and at other points along the line should he able to consign to a railway shed in the town of Whakatane or in the town of Opotiki, as the case may be, instead of to the nearest railway station as at present. Tha complaint is sometimes made that settlers are prone to use the motor transport services for lighter, more remunerative freight, and leave the heavy goods which are often less payable for the railway. If facilities such as I have mentioned were provided, then the railways would me'et the needs of the district for all classes of freight. "Freight of a perishable or semiperishable character, if carried on' from the present termini by a railway controlled motor service, would, I feel sure, be at once availed of by the business people. If costs by rail even approaches costs by other services, the extra speed and certainty of regular delivery would, I am sure, together with public sentiment in favour of patronising our railway, ensure the substantial increase in business so much to he desired."