MOTORISTS AND TAXATION.
Sir,' —I can only see one solution of the above problem, antf that i 3 the petrol tax. Road taxation has always been a serious matter for the local authorities and I call the present rates, as charged on heavy traffic, wild guesses. lam the owner of a 24-ton lorry and, according to my licence, I pay the same, if I had ono load per month, as jf I worked my lorry 24 hours per day. I know that the moro running I do tlio moro petrol I use. "Keener Motorist" says the farmer gets the benefit of the roads. I say the user gets the benefit. <;, Ho also says the town man seldom uses the country roads. ' I would ask him to run out in the country any week-end and see the vehicles using the country roads. The average town motorist is out for pleasure and when the country motorist comes to town it is to spend his monev. It seems natural to me that if the farmer has less to' pay in rates, ho will have more to spend on his farm. F.G.F.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 12
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