PETROL TAX
N.S.W. EXPECTING A R!f Z
(By Telegraph—Press Association, i AUCKLAND, August 21. Reference to strong rumours prevalent in New South Wales regarding an increase in the petrol tax as part of a programme of higher State taxa-I tion was made by two men with motoring interests who were passengers by the Monterey from Sydney today. | "Though rumours have been officially denied—just as they were in New Zealand—people seem to think they will get an extra petrol tax." said Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary of the Automobile Association (Auckland), who returned from a three weeks' business trip to Sydney. "It is a class of taxation which is very unpopular with the motor user, but because it is so easily collected it has imrriediate appeal to a Government." The amount of increase hinted at was 2d a gallon, according to Mr. William G. Walkley, managing director of Australian Motorists' Petrol Co., Ltd., who was a through passenger en route to Los Angeles. The present price of petrol in Sydney was Is 9d and Is lOd^a gallon, the amount of tax being 7|d. "It is not a tax that is at all justified by -logic," said Mr. Walkley. "The worst feature of it is that it is much too easily collected. That is why it was introduced in New Zealand I feel sure, and now New South Wales seems to be following your example."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 45, 22 August 1939, Page 7
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233PETROL TAX Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 45, 22 August 1939, Page 7
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