TRUCK IMPRESSMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1941, Page 4

TRUCK IMPRESSMENT

COMMENT ON LATEST PROCEDURE NO INSTRUCTIONS SO FAR FROM GOVERNMENT. CONSTITUTION OF LOCAL f COMMITTEE. 1 Commenting on the procedure now announced for the selection of trucks most suitable for impressment, Mr T. Jordan, speaking at last night’s meeting of the E.P.S. Committee, said he could not understand why instructions came from the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance. He 'had not been able to find out the reason. The instructions should have come from the Transport Department, but no notification had been received from, the Minister at all. The carriers had appointed their members to the committee to deal with impressment recommendations, with a single representative from the E.P.S. and representatives of one or two other bodies. The secretary, Mr G. T. O'Hara Smith, was instructed to write to the authorities stating that the committee had received a request from the local branch of the Road Transport Alliance for the appointment of one representative to sit with ten and to ask for the authority for that step. It was also decided to draw the Transport Commissi jner's attention to a resolution carried recently by a conference in Wellington that all transport matters should be controlled by the Transport Department and the E.P.S.