TAX ON MOTOR TYKES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 545, 2 July 1920, Page 2

TAX ON MOTOR TYKES.

Recently wo published a leadine article on the topic named in the above caption, advocating a rubber t\res' lav, the money to be used !)>' the Government In as*isl in paying Tor the upkeep of the main arterial toads. Without doubt, motor taxation is a thine; that must come before lone in N T "\v Zealand. If the money raised iVom such a tax were expended by 1 Main Roads Hoard on I the maintenance and iinptwement of arterial roads and the local bodies lefl i'ree to devote their funds to the subsidiary roads, the net result I should be a v.'i-i all round. FiirniTs compiled by the New Zealand Trade Review show that approximately :'•"),nil!) motor vehii le-, e\»dusive 1.1 motor cvcles, lia\e been im- | ported ii,io New Zealand during the last six .wars. II this be taken as leprosentini;' somewhere near Lhc i number of motor- now on the roads. 1 it is possible to arrive at a rounh J i stimate of (lie yield of a motor tax. I In Britain, the Chancellor of the KxI che(|iiei this vear adopted an annual tax on the basis of CI per horsej power. II the average hoi so-power ! per car be put at fifteen, which is ' probably on the low side, a .similar I tax in N-w /.••aland would yield nearj ly <;loii,oiio pi ]■ uniiuni. In \ jew of the I l.r:al bodies' motor recislors, esti- | males of the \ it-Id arc conjectural, lint the litiures ouoted arc sufficient to *how that 11 would be feasible by such a tax to provide | )o th islands with first-class arterial roads within it comparatively few years."