A MODERN NECESSITY.

Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 18, 14 February 1924, Page 2

A MODERN NECESSITY.

NEW Zealand motorists will be interested to learn that automobiles are officially recognised by the State of New York as a necessity and not a luxury. The State Tax Commission has amended its 1924 application blank for the registering of privately owned and privately operated automobiles, so that this class of vehicle will be designated “ passenger car ” instead of “ pleasure car.*’ This changes a practice which has been enforced since the first automobile was registered, when \cars were actually pleasure cars and used only as a. luxury. “The commission,” says the New York State Deputy Tax Commissioner, “ has decided upon this action because it agrees with the automobile merchants and the owners of motor cars that privatelyowned and privately operated automobiles are, to ail intents and purposes, passenger vehicles, that they are necessities, and that in the largest proportion they are not luxuries." When it became known throughout the State that this question was under consideration by the commission automobile dealers, car owners, and manufacturers in all parts of the country interested themselves in the matter, and presented to the commission reasons why the change should be \made. It was made clearly evident to the commission that the automobile has only very limited use for mere pleasure.