OPINION OF BUDGET
ACCORDING TO POCKET Australian Press Association—United Service. (Beceived 26th April, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 25th April. To-day has been a day of reckoning in which everybody is deciding how far the Budget affects him or her. Farmers are complaining that eighteen months to wait for relief is overlong. Hopes of an early benefit are dashed, leaving them "worse off than ever," because they had been assured of an early release from' their burdens. The fiercest criticism is from motorists. It is pointed out that many commercial vehicles have been sold, spreading unemployment. Motor taxation has increased 250 per cent, in two years. As an instance, the 'London omnibus yearly tax was £84 in 1926, £108 in 1927, and will be approximately £200 in 1928. The London General Omnibus Company says it will cost £400,000 a year. Private motorists, numbering two million, find the annual tax increased by from £5 to £15,. according to petrol consumption. The railwayl companies are pleased at rate relief. Lord Aberconway, chairman of the Metropolitan Railway, says: "I only wish tho petrol tax were 6d."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 97, 26 April 1928, Page 9
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181OPINION OF BUDGET Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 97, 26 April 1928, Page 9
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