MOTOR TAXATION.
To the Editor.
Sir, —In your issue of 26th inst I noticed in the report of the South Invercargill Borough Council meeting that the Mayor and councillors passed a motion objecting to farmers being exempt from a heavy duty license as suggested in a letter from the Transport Board. The Mayor and councillors can run their cars in the town or country for the payment of the petrol tax, and registration. Will the Mayor please tell me why the farmer has to pay all these fees, besides a donation of £4O (in my case) in the form of rates? If a tax of 1/- a gallon instead of 6d was put on petrol, then all who use the roads would pay for their upkeep instead of bleeding the farmer still more by having him pay a heavy duty license. If this extra tax was substituted in place of rates it would be necessary for me to use 1600 gallons or travel 32,000 miles in one year to use up this amount in extra tax which I now pay in rates. In using this amount of petrol I would be able to go on a motoring tour of New Zealand, such as no doubt the Mayor and councillors have been. If Councillor Hope had all these payments to make he would feel he was about ready to go on the road to do his little bit of carting without having to pay extra for a heavy duty license. —I am, etc., SQUARE DEAL.
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Southland Times, Issue 21774, 1 August 1932, Page 3
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254MOTOR TAXATION. Southland Times, Issue 21774, 1 August 1932, Page 3
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