MOTOR TAXATION

Inangahua Times, 27 October 1932, Page 3

MOTOR TAXATION

EXPENDITURE COMMISSION S PROPOSAL OPPOSED BY LOCAL BODIES (United Press A>an.j CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. A meeting of representatives of local todies and the motoring organisations, called by Canterbury Progress League, was held today to consider a proposal of the National Expenditure Commission, that the Highways fund should be abolished. A resolution was carried, to the effect, that the Conference, while fully appreciating the financial difficulties of the Government, disagreed absolutely with the Commission’s recommendation that the Highways Fund be abolished and urged that the fund be maintained and that, at the earliest possible date, all special motor taxation be paid into the fund, curiosity shop. Assorted articles bulged from his pockets. His arms held an oileren still we 7 covered with fabric, two or three underplane struts and other souvenirs. A cameraman secured the magneto from the engine and a taxi driver took one of the cockpit shutters. Another intensely proud acquisition gathered was a small case for folding maps, formerly fastened inside the cockpit. Fully 80 per cent of those who reached the machine took away some self- £ selected reward for their journey anti it was a much souvenir tattered mach- £ inc they left behind. 1 The Aero Club salvaged the engine € and odds and ends and burned the re maunder, I