FARMERS' LORRIES
"The farmers would have been bett'er off if they had stuck to horses," said Councillor H. W. Wise at a meeting of the Riccarton Borough Council, when the Transport Department at Christchurch wrote asking for the council's opinion on the proposal that heavy traffic fees should be abolished on farmers' lorries used solely for carrying farmers' produce and supplies. The letter mentioned the possibility of farmers going back to horses if the cost of taxation on motor vehicles were maintained. "The farmers must take a lot of the-respon-sibility for tbs position they and the country" are in to-day," said Councillor Wise. "Fancy farmers growing wheat, hay and chaff, and then using petrol vehicles and complaining that they cannot afford the petrol. I have known farmers go through two tractors in a few years at a cost that would not have involved them in horse vehicles all their lives." The letter was received.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 358, 20 October 1932, Page 2
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