MOTOR VEHICLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1941, Page 6

MOTOR VEHICLES

IMPRESSMENT BY AUTHORITIES MUCH INCONVENIENCE CAUSED TO CARRIERS. MORE CO-OPERATION WANTED. ■ (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. No general comment on the position relating to the impressment of vehicles is being made by carriers in Wellington as the President of the New Zealand Carriers’ Federation is in Christchurch, where he has been attending a conference on the matter, and it is not known what may have deen decided there. It is stated, however, that Mr. Blyth has communicated with his firm and said impressed vehicles must be delivered and appeals were to be lodged where the effect on industry justified it. Inquiries reveal that many vehicles of Wellington carriers have been called for and many carriers are left without vehicles to carry on their business. Larger firms also have been called upon to deliver Some of their vehicles. The President of the Motor Trade Federation, Mr. C. R. Edmond, said: "We are prepared to endure anything if it will help to win the war, but we think a great deal of disruption in industry could have been avoided by more co-operation. The Government has not consulted the motor- trade, although we have offered the use of our organisation on three occasions and the offer is still open.” He considered that the authorities had made a tremendous mistake in not allowing sufficient time for owners to make adjustments that must be made because of the impressment of vehicles. He continued: “We do not know enough to criticise the method that has been adopted but we are certain it is going to have serious repercussions and some of the inconvenience could have been avoided by a little more co-operation. If vehicles are needed they have got to be taken but we have not been told why a little more time could not have been allowed.”