TAX ON PETROL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 14

TAX ON PETROL

MOTORISTS’ PROTEST CIRCULAR BY ASSOCIATION APPEAL TO MEMBERS Ln accordance with its recent protest regarding the increase of 4d. a gallon in the petrol tax, the Automobile Association (Auckland) has sent circulars to its 33,000 members, inviting their co-operation in presenting a united front and raising a Dominion - wide clamour for equality in the imposition of taxation. The circular also contains a copy of the cOmbine'd protest already sent to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, by the North Island and South Island Motor Unions.

“Consideration of ways and means of .obtaining relief from the overwhelming burden of taxation which now rests upon the road users of the Dominion is exercising acutely administrators of organised motoring,” states the association’s circular. “Whether or not a motor vehicle owner is a member, we wish to stress tire fact that the strength and influence of the automobile association movement in Now Zealand appeals for practical interest and support in giving volume and vehemence to the protest against the imposition of the further unjustifiable class taxation just announced. “You will appreciate what the additional tax involves when you realise that when you buy one gallon of petrol you pay is 27-10 d in tax; two gallons, 2s 5 4-l()d; three gallons, 3s 8 l-10d; four gallons, 4s 10 8-1 Od; five gallons, (is 1 5-10 d; six gallons, 7s 4 2-1 Od; seven gallons, 8s (i 9-10 d; eight gallons, 9s 9 G-JOd; nine gallons, 4ls 0 3-1 Od; ten gallons, 12s 3d. “Mindful of their obligations, not only* to their • own members, ol whom there are 100,000, but to all owners of motor vehicles in New Zealand, the automobile association are offering resistance to the Government’s proposals,” the circular adds. “If you are in accord with the principle, you are urged to communicate at once with the member of Parliament for your electorate and support the protest which has already been made.”