FARMERS’ TRUCKS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21646, 6 May 1940, Page 11

FARMERS’ TRUCKS

LICENSING CONCESSION By Telegraph —Press Association WELLINGTON, May 4. The action of the Government in amending the transport regulations by reducing the transport traffic licence fees payable by farmers and market gardeners on trucks up to a certain capacity would meet with general approval and appreciation on the par', of these interests, and. he thought, on he part of the community generally, said Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union. They v ould realise that it was an attempt, if not a very complete one, to adjust heavy traffic charges on these vehicles more nearly to the amount of use they made of the road. He said that in important areas farmers’ trucks engaged in purely farm business had, by loc. 1 action approved by the Minister, been completely exempt : om any fees, and in these cases the Minister’s announcement that no exemptions would be allowed meant there would be an increase in the actual burden they would have to bear.

“However, with the knowledge that the Minister is fully are of the unfairness of the charge and his sympathetic attitude, he, no doubt, will see that no increased burden is placed upon the farming community at this critical juncture," added Mr Mulholland.