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■ IE thing was quite clear from the White Paper on transport, said TRTA president J. Delicate at the annual dinner of the area of the Association yesterday—the ster's firm view that more traffic should y rail.
would not disagree with this one scrap— r things being equal and provided the traffic ed voluntarily on merit," said Mr. Delicate. if at the end of the day we are faced with ontinuing railway deficit ... there must be question of balancing the railways account te expense of our manufacturing industries— example by compelling long-distance traffic ) by rail or taxing it prohibitively.
We must face realistically up to the fact in an island as full as this, there is not the e scope for rail transport as in many of the larger countries. In consequence road transport offers the maximum transport efficiency, not only for the major part of total traffic, but even for quite a lot of what we choose to call 'longdistance' freight.
"We do not yet know sufficient about the proposed National Freight Organization to form an objective judgement. Personally, I think the Minister is right in principle to envisage that the Organization should generally decide the means of transport to be used for traffic consigned to it. But in the face of the widespread past dissatisfaction with railway service, the new Organization will have to prove its competence before traders will give it traffic on a 'you decide the method of transport basis', and even then there will alway be the special cases where the trader requires special treatment for special traffic."