MOTORS NOT PAYING FULLY FOR ROADS
A HAMILTON PROTEST. HAMILTON, Lust Night. Mr, Rupert Worley, Borough engineer, in addressing Rotarians to-day, suit! the present competition of motors with the railways was grossly unfair, as the motors did not pay fully for the use of the roads. Poor people, who were unable to afford a motor, had to bear hu undue buclcn.
On the principle of making the user pay, Mr. Worley suggested the imposition of petrol and vehir.le taxi's, sufficiently heavy to cover the whole cost of construction and maintenance of adequate roads. The State should construct and maintain the main highway* and hand local authorities a dim proportion of tiie i-'xes for subsHbirv roads.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 June 1929, Page 7
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