THE WASTE IN MOTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 7

THE WASTE IN MOTORS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —A few of your correspondents attribute the high cost of living partly to racing, which, I think, should be classed as a local industry, insomuch that all money spent in connection with it remains in the country. Perhaps the reason those who a3cribo the high cost of living to this sport give is the heavy j taxation racing bears. May I offer the suggestion that the payment in the vicinity of sixpence a mile royalty, mostly to America, on all motor borne traffic, the initial cost of cars and lorries, the spending of millions in the attempt to provide roads, must be the biggest drain on the resources of the country Yet in spite of increased expenditure the roads are going back (see any country engineer's remarks). This more particularly applies to back block settlements, which are being neglected to provide speedways nearer the towns. Yet America contemplates the imposing of a 55 per cent per lb additional duty on butter. How does this compare with the treatment meted out to poor struggling motor firms like the Ford Company by us?—l am, etc, COCKY.