PETROL TAX.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19158, 15 November 1927, Page 8

PETROL TAX.

ALLOCATION OF REVENUE. (pazas association telegbam.) DUNEDIN, November 14. Although the petrol tax has been passed by the House, motorists of the South Island have not finished with their opposition to the Government's past policy of spending any portion of motoring taxes on any roads in New Zealand.

Mr Ansell, president of the South Island Motor Union, says the Minister's refusal to allocate th<; petrol tax raised in the South Island tor spending on roads in the South Island is a serious matter. South Island motorists were entitled to assume when agreeing to the imposition of the petrol tax that they would have at least an equitable share of the revenue provided, and it came as a bombshell to know that the Minister might at his discretion spend any portion of the tax in any part of New Zealand as he desired.

Referring to the proposed motor regulations Mr Ansei] said that he was strongly against the law forbidding dimming when it was evident that dimming was safe and necessary. The traffic signals prescribed were fairly good, but the rule that the warning instruments must be sounded twice when turning to the left was absurd and calculated to cause trouble and confusion. The legalising of pillion riding was very satisfactory.