It is undeniable that, if motorists demand better roads, they must he prepared to pay more than they have paid in the past for highway construction and maintenance. Tt is also beyond argument that, compared with British motorists, the motorist in New Zealand runs on an easy road as fat as Staie charges are concerned. All that and more admitted, however, the latest tax on the luxury <»f motoring is nothing hotter than a preposterous imposition. There may he a touch of poetic justice in the thing. Perhaps the extra tax will convince many motorists that their great aid to the Reform Party on polling days was an expensive exercise of generous admiration The Government’s populauty in future will not he sounded on motor horns.—. Auckland “Sun.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19271129.2.47.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
127Untitled Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in