MOTORISTS COMPLAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 13

MOTORISTS COMPLAIN

SPENDING OF PETROL TAX SOUTH ISLAND ROADS press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. , ucii the petrol tax lias been { d'Vv the House, motorists of the | TiTth have not finißhed wiUl I ; h °eir opposition to the Government s " t policy ot spending any portion of ,h« motoring taxes on any of the roads j president of the • tfi Island Motor inon, says that the j . . ter - s refusal to allocate the petrol raised in the South Island for j u '* din ,* on roads in the South Island i South Island motorists •%r» entitled to assume vvhen agree- j nc to the imposition of the petrol tax thev would have a just and equitlhte share of the revenue provided. It a bombshell to know that the nim'trr might- nt his discretion, spend 11 v portion of the tux in any part of fs Dominion asdi» desires ; Referring to the proposed motor relations Mr. Ansel! said that he was *.ronely against the law forbidding j rf'mmin- vv lien it was evident that dimming was safe and necessary The , •raffle signals prescribed were fairly rood, but the rule that a warning in- | .trument mast be sounded twice when turning to the left anti ; 'u«ion. rh ‘' legalising of pillion-riding I lets very satisfactory. mmmv ' Mi r r r r**:KZ3JGßffiJßaßm