NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1931, Page 7

NELSON NEWS

INCREASED PETROL TAX

BOW TO NECESSITY

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

NELSON, 13th October.

The monthly meeting of the Nelson Automobile Association discussed a. report from the chairman of the South Island Motor Union on his conference with representatives of the North Island Union on the matters of transference of the Highways Board fund surplus to counties and increase in petrol tax. The report stated that the proposals, in view of the state of the country's finances, could not be objected to.

The president of the Kelson association, Dr. A. A. Gibbes, said the action of the Government was not palatable, but motorists would have to take their share of the burden, in present times. Ha moved that the association acquiesce iv the decision of the Government, recognising the increase in the petrol tax iv the meantime, but flint it is looking forward to a review of. the position and a reduction in the future. The motion was carried. Mr. IT. Everett'said lie did not object to the transference of the surplus of the .Highways .Fund, and the chairman agreed, so long as it was an emergency measure only. Miss Mary Schroder,'of Quarantine road, Stoke, has been admitted to hospital suffering from severe burns on the face and hands, the result of a primus stove blowing up. Miss Schroder, was ironing, and dropped the iron on the stove. Her condition was reported to-day as satisfactory. As a result of a reduction in the Golden Bay Hospital subsidies by the Nelson Hospital Board, the Takuka and Collingwood County Councils at an early date will consider a proposal to constitute a Golden Bay hospital district, administered by its own board. To-morrow Mr. Akira Karaite of the entomological stall of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, will arrive in Nelson in order to discuss entomological problems with Dr. D. Miller of the Cawthron Institute. Mr.. Kamito is specially interested in the biological control' of insect Tlf-?t- s; he has already visited the entomological research stations in California, Hawaii, and Fiji, aud has sent consignments of parasites from these countries to Japan,

The Takaka, Bullcr, and Collingwqod County Coiiiu-ils are combining in making representations to the Government for the construction of a. road over the Heapy track, linking Collingwood with Karamea.

'Evemug Tost" l'lioto.