Too Soft' About 1 Petrol Tax
' “The public is too soft in not insisting that the petrol tax should be used for maintaining roads,” said a former member of the Whangarei County Council (Mr F. G. McDonald) at a farewell function to the retiring clerk (Mr 11. C. Hemphill) yesterday. The tax imposed today was driving the man in the back-blocks oil' tlit* land. Only fid in the 1 2.7 d which was being paid in petrol tax was being used in improving the highways, said the chairman (Mr J. Morrison). A person living 50 miles away from a main highway still had to pay the tax. The position was ridiculous. “Wo have got to administer according to rules laid down by higher authorities,” said Mr J. Scott Davidson. “We should go to them and seek their cooperation.” Consolidation was the first essential.
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Northern Advocate, 19 April 1947, Page 5
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