PETROL TAX INCREASE
PROTEST BY MOTORISTS FUNDS SHOULD BE EARMARKED (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Consequent on a resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Otago .Motor Club on Monday night, recommending that the Government and tho ■South Island Motor Union be written to protesting against money beingtaken from the Highway Board As revenue to relieve the consolidated fund, the executive of the committee of the (dub met last evening, and framed the following message, a copy of wlfieh will be forwarded to the Prime Minister and the South island -Motor Union: ‘‘The Otago .Motor Club wishes to record its emphatic protest against the levying of further taxation other than that required for roading purposes, and particularly the use ot funds accruing from petrol taxation, for general revenue purposes. Further, the club strenuously objects to any transfer *of moneys from the Highway Board’s revenue to the consolidated fund.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17605, 22 October 1931, Page 3
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150PETROL TAX INCREASE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17605, 22 October 1931, Page 3
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