PRIVATE MOTOR-CARS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1810, 25 July 1913, Page 4

PRIVATE MOTOR-CARS.

"ONCE-A-YE AR." LICENSE URGED. At the City Council meeting last night tho following motion was moved by Couw cillor E. Tregear"That the municipal Corporations Act, 1908, bo amended to provido for tho licensing of private motorcars by by-law.." The present system, said Councillor Tregear, was that a car now might bo licensed for 109. in Christchurch, and then bo brought to Wellington and kept hero for ever, doing enormous damage to tho streets, lie suggested that tho owners (should pay .£lO a year. Councillor Fletcher said that a motorear was an expensive thing, and the man who could afford one could afford to pay a tas of J2lO. Councillor Fuller seconded tho motion, although thinking the amount of tax suggosted was ridiculous. There seemed to be a feeling against people who owned motor-cars. He agreed that motor-cars should bo licensed onco a year, "like dogs," but tho silly idea of taxing tho motor-car out of existenco was absurd. Councillor Fletcher thought the matte® was an important one, and moved that it should 1)0 a remit to tho next Counties Conference. , Tho motion was referred to tho Lcgisv lative Committee to report on.