HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES

Waikato Independent, Volume XLV, Issue 1265, 29 April 1946, Page 7

HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES

REVISION OF ALLOCATION APPEAL TO BE MADE TO MINISTER Despairing of obtaining relief from its fellow contributors to the Waikato heavy-traffic fees pool, the Raglan County Council, at its monthly meeting on Friday, decided to appeal to the Minister of Transport asking for a new agreement for the Waikato district. The chairman, Mr H. Johnstone, M.P., said representations to the other members of the pool had failed. Some of them seemed afraid that if the old arrangement, based on the allocation made by the late Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in 1929, was altered, or an appeal made to the Minister of Transport, the result would be that the local bodies would sooner or later be deprived of the whole of the fees. Circumstances, however, had altered radically since 1929, and most heavy vehicles were garaged in the centres, a lessened share of the fees thus reaching the rural local bodies.

Mr P. H. Saxton said he was fully in accord with the move to ask the Minister to, re-allocate the fees. It was apparent that it was useless to expect relief from other local bodies contributing to the present pool.