THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Moron Taxation. The hardest tiling to discover about the motor taxation in New Zealand is the principles on which it is based. Ibe original scheme put forward by the now defunct New Zealand Automobile Union resulted in the appearance in Parliament of a Bill by which the maintenance of 2()()0 miles of main roads was to he borne out of motor taxation. In deference to the desire of tlie counties for money for side roads this was altered to a scheme for using motor lax revenue for defraying one-third of the maintenance ol G' ; 00 miles ot road. Since then more taxes have been piled on and more side roads added, and todav motor taxation lias drifted to the basis •of defraying two-thirds of tho maintenance of 10,000 miles of roads. This is a quarter of the total mileage of rural formed roads, metalled and tin metal led, and is 40 per cent, of tho total mileage of metalled and gravelled roads. The motor tax subsidised roads arc all gazetted as “main highways.” but a great mileage of them is nothing of the sort. —Spotlight, in Dunedin Times.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 4
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192THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1929, Page 4
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