Road tax slated
PA Wellington The road-user charge has become a bureaucratic monstrosity, according to the leader of the Social Credit Political League (Mr B. C. Beetham).He was not surprised to see that transport charges were increasing at a rate of more than 22 per cent a year against an inflation rate of just over 18 per cent, he said in an address prepared for delivery' to the North Auckland Road Transport Rising fuel costs and the rising cost of imported components had affected the road-transport industry particularly hard.
It was estimated that the transport industry employed more than 9 per cent of the labour force and that the cost of moving goods and people was more than $2OOO. million a year.
“Social Credit planners are now developing and advocating a policy propounding a fully integrated rail and road transport system where each mode is in full cooperation and integration to the over-all benefit of the national interest rather than sectional and vested interests,” said Mr Beetham.
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