THE PETROL TAX.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 133, 7 June 1930, Page 8

THE PETROL TAX.

Your correspondent "R.E.8." seems to think that petrol is used simply for pleasure cai • As a matter of fact, for every gallon consume" in pleasure driving at least twenty gallons ar used for legitimate business and useful tran port. Transport is essential to civilisation. 1 is just as important as production-itself a a tax on petrol is as indefensible as a coal or horse feed. It is ridiculousto con. i - a tax on houses to a tax 011 petrol.. The >° > tax is also a gross injustice. The tax 6 0 1 :.»e c.u the site according to its value, there a house on it or not. About naj New Zealand has adopted this method . property taxation. The motor induetiy ' already overtaxed. It contributes over millions a year to the revenue. This indusl j is one of the largest employers of li l ™ u , r , \ New Zealand. It has proved so efficient it can carry this enormous load of taxa and still beat the horse and train.. ° Nt roads and motors farms which were once in the never-never are brought close- to ; markets and centres. ECONOMIC STUDENT-