MOTOR INDUSTRY
STRANGULATION BY TAXES
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Bay
'At a dinner to celobrate the twentyifirsfc anniversary of the Otago Motor Olub the president (Mr. P. "W. Brcen) said that the Government was con-tinually-in ; creasing motor taxation, yet peculiarly it spent huge sums in other directions from which-no benefit was perceivable. By its taxation the Governmont was strangling the industry. The raising of tho exchango rate had caused a cessation of tho importation of motor-cars, and tho industry was being killed and workers thrown on to the dole. By continually taxing one section of the community the Government was killing the gooso that laid tho golden egg.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1933, Page 13
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113MOTOR INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1933, Page 13
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