PETROL TAX

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 8

PETROL TAX

WILL MEAN BETTER ROADS “The additional revenue that will be derived from the petrol tax will undoubtedly result in increased activity in the construction of high-class pavements in our highways,” remarked Mr. C. J. McKenzie, Assistant Engineer-in-ciiief of the Public Works Department, at the Engineers’ Conference. “There are many who are opposed to the petrol tax,” he stated, “but 1 have alwavs favoured it, and after seeing it in operation in many of the American States, am satisfied that it can be operated successfully in this country. It is a ‘pay-as-you-go’ system and more nearly records the measure of the use of the roads than any other feasible method that can be devised. We have already a fair mileage of good roads within a'short radius of the centres of population, more particularly m the North Island, irrespective of what the citv and borough councils have undertaken. The cement concrete roads outside Auckland, and the bituminous concrete roads outside the cities of Wellington and Christchurch are monuments of sound engineering and local body, foresight..”