MOTORISTS UP IN ARMS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 9

MOTORISTS UP IN ARMS

{DEARER PETROL AND H.-P. TAX

''Australian Press Assocl&Uod—United Serrlct.

(Received Bth March, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 7th March,

' Declaring that excessive taxation was -arresting one of the most prominent (♦British post-war industries, a big pri-i'-vate deputation, representing manufacturers and commercial users of motors ;'aud private motorists, urged Mr. Winston Churchill to decrease the horse- ■■ power tax, pointing out that such a tax handicapped British manufacturers. Mr. Churchill, in reply, warned tho ■ not to expect any considerable abatement of the horse-power tax. In the House of Commons, Mr. Baldijwin, in a statement in reply to a series ;W questions on the rise of 2-Jd in the /price of petrol, which, in addition to iiast year's petrol tax of 4d, has been WtSie cause of considerable discussion, announced that the Government had askI'Jcd the petrol companies to explain the increase. This in no way prejudiced tlie question whether the increase was . .justified or otherwise. They would consider the question of action against the if the explanation was unsatisfactory. Sir William Davidson asked whether i Jthe Government would inquire what arrangement had been made by the petrol companies with Russia Oil Products. Mr. Baldwin did not reply.