EXEMPT FROM MOTOR TAXES
GOVERNMENT-OWNED VEHICLES. MR.' CO ATE 3 TO ASK- QUESTION. (By Wire —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, intends- to ask the acting-Prime Alinister whether Gov-ernment-owned motor vehicles are to continue exempt from all the various forms of motor taxation. ' 1 “Governnient-owned motor vehicles,” he said, in giving notice in the House to-day, “are exempt from the operations of motor taxation in all its various forms as a set-off against the Government’s contribution from the Consolidated Fund to the Alain Highways Board. This contribution is now wiped out. Every Government department ha its fleet of motor vehicles and will now have free - e of roads which arc already a severe tax on the ratepayers. The Post and Telegraph Department is an extensive user of all classes of roads, and this department is prosperous.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1930, Page 6
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