MOTOR CARS.
A PAYING LUXURY. '‘The amount of duty collected on motor cars last year was £148,345. This is an amount of revenue that cannot at present be dispensed with. . . . Nearly 90 per cent, of the mol or cars imported since the war commenced were for utility purposes, and can in no sense be classed as pleasure cars. Motors for business purposes have come here to stay, as is the case all over the world. The time has passed for a general condemnation of their importation on the grounds that they are for pleasure and are not indispensable. We want the revenue. The duty at present is 20 per cent., with a preference of 10 per cent., to Great Britain and any part of the Empire that reciprocates with us.” —Extract from the Budget.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19170804.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1744, 4 August 1917, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134MOTOR CARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1744, 4 August 1917, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in