THE PETROL TAX.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19161, 18 November 1927, Page 12

THE PETROL TAX.

TO THE EDITOR OS THE PBESS. Sir,—l consider this the fairest tax imposed, provided, of course, the money be spent on roads and bridges. I have two cars—a Dodge and a Standad 14 li.p., which latter I bought in England, and reckon that with the tax on petrol, license fees on both cars, tyre tax, etc., I will be paying on the two cars here less in taxes and fees than I paid on the Standard car alone in England by about £3 a year. There is in England a great agitation to shift the tax from cylinder area on to petrol. I consider fourpence a gallon too low a tax; sixpence would be nearer the mark. If users of roads want good roads they should hot object to pay for them. I never heard a single motorist in England object to paying the tax, for more than the tax is saved by the good roads producing greater mileage to the gallon, much less wear on the tyres and so greater mileage in this respect and far less shaking of the cars, so they also last much longer. The roads are so good now in England that balloon tyres are

not now required, and! with 6d a gallon tax our roads should in a few years-be aa good.—Yours, etc., C.H.TRIPP. P.S.—The next advance required will bo to put all main roads and bridges under one Board for each Island and take them entirely out of the control of x local bodies. This would save no end of friction, jealousies, and correspondence, and reduce staffs.