MOTORISTS UP IN ARMS

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1888, 26 April 1928, Page 5

MOTORISTS UP IN ARMS

OVER NEW PETROL TAX EXPENSE GR’EATLY INCREASED By Telegraph—Press Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). (Received April •29. 9.G0 a.m.) London, April 24. The police made a clear way in Downing Street to enable.Mr Winston Churchill to pass through the crowd to tho House ot Commons. Accompanied hy bis daughter Diana he wailkod to Whitehall amid cries of "Good old M inston ! A passing bus tlriver called: “What about, lx er and baccy?” The Chancellor of the Exchequer, with his face wreather with smiles, waveil a friendlv band. Mr Churehili’s surprises in his new Budget were the petrol tax and the children's allowances ofl the income

The petrol fax is certainly vigorously opposed hy motorists, some of whom describe it. its wicked and iniquitous. saving it will do untold ha tin and keep a large, number of ears off the road. The Commercial Motor Users' Association estimates the average goods traffic vehicle wiki pay L it) to LoO niiuallv extra, for petrol, which is simply st aggeri ng. It. will cost, the General Omnibus Company more than 1:300.000 extra venrl v.