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ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY

“DISAPPOINTMENT” WITH TAX RELIEFS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 28. “The road transport industry will be disappointed with ; the Budget in several ways,” said Mr H. C. Campbell, secretary of the New Zealand Road Transport Alliance Carriers’ Federation and the New Zealand Passenger Services’ Federation.

“First, in common with other industries, it will regard the general taxation relief as insignificant,” he said. “Then the long-overdue removal of sales tax from buses and trucks has not eventuated. This tax, which falls on the passengers in buses and goods in trucks, is a bad tax, and should not be regarded as a legitimate form of revenue.

"The allocation of the available loan and revenue money to road construction and maintenance is totally inadequate. Everybody knows that many of our roads are not up to the standard of construction necessary, and that maintenance is seriously in arrears,” Mr Campbell said. “The total amount allocated to roads will allow only about the same maintenance as last year, and less construction. “The failure of the Government to make adequate provision for reading must result in retarding the general development of the country, and in further serious deterioration of our roads.”

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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27131, 29 August 1953, Page 8

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ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27131, 29 August 1953, Page 8

ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27131, 29 August 1953, Page 8

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