PETROL REBATE COSTS
Relief Urged For Roads Board
The South Island Motor Union will recommend to the National Roads Board that the cost of applications for rebate of petrol tax should be charged to the user and not to the board. The cost of each application was 4s, and the Roads Board had paid out more than £30,000 in recent years, and expected to pay out £40,000 in 1960, Mr T. E. V. Turpin (Otago) told the executive. The National Airways Corporation, with an operating profit of £250,000, got the rebate, and so did fishermen and variousother groups which contributed little to the maintenance of the roads. Why, then, should the Roads Board meet costs of rebates?
The union will ask the North Island Motor Union for support before it makes its recommendation.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28986, 29 August 1959, Page 14
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