Will Horsed Transport Return to Favour ?
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rrHE sections of the community which are likely to give the heartiest thanks to the Road and Rail Conference, if its recommendations 'be brought into practice, are those concerned with the breeding, selling and employment of the horse for transport purposes, for .no better aid could have been devised for bolstering up this otherwise decaying means for transit. Many users of motor vehicles who have utilized horsed transport in the past are beginning to regret the modernizing of their fleets, and as it is the short-distance motor vehicle which is the most heavily penalized—and this is the one sphere where the horse could be utilized —we may yet see an attempt being made to effect a wholesale return to equine transport. Such a prospect is awful to contemplate, although quite within the realms pf possibility. The additional congestion might well be paralyzing, and we should return to the conditions of insanitary streets and the prevalence of breeding spots for flies with their concomitant evils of germs and disease.