The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929 MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11069, 16 February 1929, Page 4

The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929 MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT.

The Prime Minister says that file newly-created Transport Department -will have to deal with the difficult question of the taxation of vehicles, and with the question of the adjustments that will have to be made to enable local bodies to revise their finances in the event of a reduction being made m the heavy traffic license fee. These, however, are questions that hardly require the creation of a new department to deal with them. Moreover, they are not recurrent questions. If the present Government proposes, as is evidently the case, to amend the system of taxation of motor vehicles, it may be presumed that there will be some permanence about the alteration which it introduces. In any event.

- Ministry of Transport, with' width a Transport .Board is apparently to bo associated; would seem to bo entirely unnecessary. Yet, if one is established. the taxpayers may rest as--tmred that it will not bo long bolero

a staff will have been assembled m connection with it that will swell materially the administrative expenses of the country. It may lie recalls that a few yeans ago Mr C’oates c-c.n temp la ted the creation of a Transport Department with winch the Railways Department was to be coordinated—a natural enough arrangement if there was any actual need for the new department. Mr (-cates, however, upofi reflection, prudent \ dropped the idea.