"MOTOR TAX MAD."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 8

"MOTOR TAX MAD."

SIR JOSEPH PETROL «£„* MR- COATES W DBpwc , j j WELLINGTON, Ko ,l ■ A I imagined that th e fil >« lucent. •». WroL» „,$* «1 Ward Unverewgu,) ln ft * *•* Representative I 4st *£*** \t you made an i ncrtaßft ' f '. %, in tho Customs genwallv u ** f ««, Someone would stop S Jl* **E were all right." &££ *VJ Sir Joseph referred tyfi • charges which were *bei» c ml £**** taxpayer generally, and «L°* tl « £2,120,000 had been 1 **, tk*. ! shoulders of the people of m the last twelve months nes» knows where we are '<*»«: G °* "* "id. "Take th cars. Here they are b« to pay this extra tax, and I wHi.T* to say that tWali, 1 ft* used m New Zealand ar Wfr purposes." IW Wlily; The Minister for Lands M, „ Leod): ''We've K ot to l t out of somebody's pocket.." *$

Double Taxation.

Sir Joseph said that personal!* » Agreed with the idea ofV3, 1 ' but he could not conceive X 'ffi should make a 25 per cent. inwL*t was beyond him altogether, %u , Were bein K call «d npottt 2 £750,000 , n petrol tax, ana u °tiflS £IBB,OOO .*„ being taken out Sft J pocket for , tjretai. It™ Ml Sj of double fixation on <m«"uiEJ of the people, and yet tho Gorytl nlent wore advising peopla to lave, J§dl Sir .Toscph made reference to'ttin many demands being nyide upon'tfid Publie Works Department by rmwA "It makes me wonder," he sald,« f Uhl where lam lam beginning to wjL dcr whether T have been transports*'* J regions where millions drop dowiMnife] the trees like apples." (UtoktM? He reiterated that it was outrtttowb impose 25 per cent, extra tax upos'Jk ' motorist. * f «ff, Mr H. G Dickie (Patea): "flkttsii ' the £318,000 for registration fat« well." ', % «i'^ "Oh, yes," said the spesisr, ~«C overlooked that " He declared that the Government had gone moUrti mad. Mr H. T. Armstrong East) said there was a great deal it the contention that the road am' should pay for the upkeep of tilt roads, but unfortunately they also aadtoptj, for roads that they did not ilia? * The Minister for Liadli'(Mr m*. Leod) said that the Use ofihi tijadi of New Zealand by the motor tut w, very heavy indeed. He salivas M , not wish to go into the cjuestion at to whether the people were jSTtf-paMlii* ing or over-using nifttoMarit That" was for the people themselvsi te'detide. User Should Pa*. I »\ w y < Tho Prime Minister (JtrOfatttJ Hid". he would like the Honserto MWntt.H>»j . that ihe demands from focal bodits^bta,! the Highways Board anfiptldi ?MgVy-v' ' speaking, to £3OO,OO(L{, mfflii » <■, n demand which the Bottfl3&p!i#nltet, ■> although the <ta J keep up themabtendS|p<M<iJilinf \ roads- It had to WftpJftMtbi - the motorist did nomep i«Wm*ift highways, and he w«%aflif 4t*att4» j for further roads. ww*' be provided, but they woufl involve an > additional expenditure of jfifl«M>W. la ■ addltion\to that, it wa» WP» their loan money should bs»«MM»> fifteen years, which was with modern practice, Md\M,ttjMw e the country from the necessity" J 0 on the market to borrow ffltfttf »M long time. It was hoped ™*T\l money would be repaid in the lif«UH>* , of the roads.-and in these ? difficult to see further ahesiP* "W teen years in the matter of ftWSgv' ; there was £356,009 whieh ««j : the capital construction ao»MM/,«M I there was a further £6MM «£' I would be required to meet the »s«to % able demands of the mptori»«s WH cities. Tho position w4WJWS - tain developments were to o« mm? out, and a certain elass of w*fflgf , was to be maintained,. JbjrM. require nbney to do it. Jh gW4. dated Fund waa m «• He .thought it would H'JjggHa'l; agreed that if the mdtorjst **fflffi f* certain things, it was only aMKJBsr eiple that ho ehoutd be «li«f; pay for them. The ratepayerM*« considered, :«nd it WfHgr • the costs of the primary should not mount tbo high. '*M£*2* * much too high at the P"Sft'JK * a matter of fact, the <** Vs&' gallon only meant an car, on the average, Zealand, arid the fact «* a tremendous cconomio «™*,Msfv life of the tyres and the life <£&>>& had to be taken into """WCSf S matter what wav one lo ° ke * "JS* tax was a sound economic PJJWJ"!! (. They were not asking the *«Jg"Jj r -r the country to meet the -AWfeg* ! they were simply giving tnef«w»» ■ what they had been aeking »r, ; * ~