TAXATION ON MOTORISTS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 5

TAXATION ON MOTORISTS

FULL USE ON HIGHWAYS URGED

Its previous resolution that the Government should be asked to devote aU ~ y t d o er |h ed frOm taxat i°hon torists to the purposes of the Main Highways Board was reaffirmed by the at its l«? Ct Hi Bhways Corned lts . x ,? t meeting. “it j s Mnoi injustice to thl local u k oc k es °f this country that as 6 Mafn Ch FT-T efficien * body *“ e , am , Highways Board almost insolvent, ’ said Mr F. W Freeman (Heathcote County Council) who raised the question. “It is dependent ° n i S ru s? bs that fall from thl Consolidated Fund, which takes all the S e ? 0 w £ ich lhe board is en! titled.” he continued «-eu c S arße of 411 a gallon taken for HS^?-^ E^ penses Acc °unt should have been lifted months ago. The war has ended but politically it is no" over ” F m eman added. "With the motorists k Municipal and Counties’ Associations, and Chambers of Commerce all H r ißh e wavs’n noth u r little wail from the Highways Council would probably not J ’ l T e nati ™al assets of our roads are deteriorating while the £nan^ Or - ,gl £ aUy raised £ or their mainposes” ' S being u sed for other pur-

ecUla 1 2°Ji° n , was unanimously reafril X d n,,w leg C£ V rging that the council should press for a reply and not as in* the e past ith lodging its com Plaint