DRASTIC INCREASE
Heavy Motor Taxation ROAD MAINTENANCE British Recommendations i By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright (“Times” Cable.) (Rec. August 18, 7 p.m.) London, August 18, Drastically increased taxation on heavy motor vehicles and smaller increases in the taxation on lighter commerical vehicles, motors, to pay £60,000,000 annually to maintain the roads, are the principal recommendations in the unanimous report of the Road and Rail Conference, under the chairmanship of Sir Arthur Salter. Members of the conference were heads of the four great railways and four representatives of road transport. The chief task was to suggest to the Government how the railways could compete on fairer terms for goods traffic, which recently has been greatly diverted to the roads.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 11
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117DRASTIC INCREASE Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 11
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