Abstract
Among the problems which the increasing use of the petrol-driven vehicle for road transport of all kinds has brought with it none is more important for the economist than the problem of its relations with the railway – the problem of how best to arrange these two forms of transport so that the community as a whole may derive a maximum satisfaction from their use. The problem is a world-wide one: it exists in some degree wherever a motor-car runs alongside a railway line. Every country, however, has at least some peculiar features of its own, so that an outline of the history, and a survey of the chief problems of road and rail transport in New Zealand is not made redundant by the material which has been written of other countries.