EXTRA TAX ON PETROL
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT’S VIEW [Troni Our Own Reporter.! - GREYMOUTH, August 22. • “Ilia all camouflage ;to say that , the 4d -extra; tax on .petrol is, for. defence,; ■ Mr; H. C. Harley, president the Automobile Association.' CCahterbpryXsaid- at'.the,-annual:. meeting, ot,.the, Greymbuth-'branch crease Is umustifled. The North ; arid South Island Motor Unions intend lead-' ing a deputation abbri tb the Ptime Minister to ‘ protest about it, and it will .be a stt bnie dephtetibh'tbo.” , Sir Harley said that in the last financial year £10,600,000 'had beem(spent on roads, streets, and bridges throughout the Dominion, whereas £9,000,000 was spent the year before. Last year the association' had 3000 new members arid the membership'was now 11,700, of which the West Coast members numbered 1504. . ~
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 10
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