“BADLY STUNG”
PROFITS FROM MOTOR PLATES. MOTORISTS* PROTEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 18. Figures showing the large profits made by the Government in the issue of motor vehicle number plates were quoted at the conference of the North Island Motor Union. One delegate said that motorists were being badly stung. Mr Patt (Wellington) said that for the eight years to 1933 the total cost of the plates had been £88,613, and they had been sold to motorists for £197,097. The Government’s profits averaged £12,000 a year, nl addition, the Highways 'Department had to pay Is 6d per set, representing another £ll,OOO per year, and transfer fees averaged £6OOO. The whole thing appeared to be a beanfeast for the Post Office. Mr G. W. Hutchison (Auckland) said that the Government should hand tho plates to the motorists at cost price. The plates were really a means of collecting the annual license fees. The union resolved unanimously to protest and to request that the charge be reduced to the cost price.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 210, 18 August 1933, Page 5
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