HEAVILY TAXED.
STRAIN ON MOTOR TRAFFIC.
(By Telegraph.—Prees Association.)
PAI/MERSTON N., this day.
When a resolution from the Tauranga County Council, favouring a petrol tax or some ot ier form of direct levy on motorists a- the most equitable method of meeting the problem of upkeep of main roads, came before the Kairanga County Council, a councillor said that at the present time motorists were very heavily taxed. Until the present funds of the Highways Board proved inadequate, the speaker said he was against any increase. Local bodies were at their wits' end to find monej to obtain Highways Board subsidies.
The council carried a resolution to the effect that motor traffic in the Dominion was already over taxed and that it was not fair tc put a further tax on tk
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 9
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