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PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS FORECAST OP STATEMENT A TAX ON PETROL ( Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Public Works statement to be presented will, show, it is understood, that, the financial resources for raiways, road, and electric development, are somewhat less than last year, when the total vvas' £9,500,000.
Tho principal feature will he tlie large, amount of attention which Ihe Minister pays to the. discussion of the roadiug problem, which has become acute, the rapid expansion of the. numbers of motor vehicles having created a situation that the original financial basis of the main highways is practically unable to cope Willi maintenance expenditure. The J'riiue Minister's recent contrast of £3 paid by the-motorist as against £6 by local taxpayers for road construction and maintenance is elaborated, and the impression is left that higher motor taxation has become necessary though this is not. definitely announced. It is understood that it will take the form, of a tax on petrol, probably amounting, to 4d per gallon.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 11
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167LESS MONEY AVAILABLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 11
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