TRANSPORT LEGISLATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 7

TRANSPORT LEGISLATION

M.P.’S VIEWS OF NEGOTIATIONS OPTIMISTIC IMPRESSIONS “The official Reform candidate has j been away for two years, and it is j easy for him to return and, seeing the results, say what he would have done had ho been here.” said Mr. H. G. R. Masoji at New Lynn last evening. Mr. Mason said regulations had been unavoidable, and he believed there had been something to be desired in the administration of them. There had had to bo some protection for trams It had been intended tnat there should be a Transport Board when the regulations were adopted. Government promised it. The ftiembers understood that the penal fare would leave buses to run right into the city. Parliament had nothing to do with the appointment of the City Council and the Appeal Board, the latter of which had sufficient Government representatives to support the desires of the council. Thus had the suburban transport been wrecked —not by Parliament, but by a Ministerially inspired actions, mainly decided by paid officials. “I may say the members of the City Council are genuinely merry about transport, and they genuinely believe that there is liable to be disaster if anyone else has any .say. The criticism levelled at the council has had this result, and it created a very touchy position. "We struck trouble right from the start. The council thinks it will have a majority of members, but - I think you can forget that. I believe tho members of the board will rapidly forget that they have anything to do with the City Council, that the nerviness will disappear, and that the board will want the suburbs in.” The Bill had taken enough trouble, and he hoped it would be a success.