ROAD TAXATION BURDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 12

ROAD TAXATION BURDEN.

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(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. A movement to relieve farmers of a portion of the reading taxation burden and to provide better secondary roads has been commenced by the Taranaki County Council, and will be taken further. The council objects to the present system, which, compels adjacent landholders to provide secondary roads for general traffic.

The council passed a resolution that, while appreciating the present financial diffirnTfcipg of the Government and approving its action regarding the £500,000 taken from the Main Highways Fund to assist in balancing the Budget this year, the council was of the opinion that the present main highway revenue should be definitely preserved for its original purpose, the maintenance and construction of roads and bridges. The resolution continued that, after providing for the reasonable maintenance of Tna.in and secondary highways, a subsidy of not less than 12i per cent of motor taxation should be provided from the Afnir- Highway Revenue Fund and paid to county councils to be applied toward the maintenance of roads other than highways, such subsidy to be distributed on the basis of the total rates collected for the preceding financial year.