TAX-FREE FUEL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 3

TAX-FREE FUEL

KEROSENE AS SUBSTITUTE. USE ON HEAVY VEHICLES. It is generally supposed that the relatively heavy taxation on petrol, ; now amounting to lid. a gallon, has been imposed in the expectation that, apart from its revenue-producing virtues, it will indirectly help the railways. Its value in this direction, however, will be counterbalanced to some extent by the growing use of kerosene instead of petrol as fuel for heavy passenger - and freights carrying vehicles. .. . ' During the last nine months a- considerable proportion of the motor-buses plying between Auckland and the outlying suburbs have resorted to kerosene as fuel, substantial savings being effected in running costs owing to the absence of a fuel tax on kerosene.. In the major- j ity of cases a small quantity of petrol is carried with which to start the engine, which, when warmed up, is supplied, by a turn of a tap, with kerosene fuel, for the purposes of 'Which an adjustment - is made to the-carburettor. . .J- ' v The use of other fuels than petrol in cprtain commercial vehicles has recently been discussed by the North-and South J. Island Motor Unions. In reply to inquiries the Commissioner of Transport has informed the unions that the posi- > tion is being closely watched.