PETROL TAX REVENUE
USE ON BACKBLOCK ROADS SOUTH ISLAND COMPLAINT Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. S*iurda> “It looks as if the South Island is going to be worse off than ever." said Mr. Hawkes. secretary of the Canterbury Automobile Association, referring to the Highways Board’s finances. “The Government is robbing the board of £235.000 and putting an extra threepence a gallon on the petrol tax. When the taxation of motorists w as first proposed it was intended exclusively fer highways, then secondary highway* were added, and now it is being used to bolster up the Consolidated Fund. It is being made a most unjust tax.” Mr. Hawkes said the money made available for the improvement of backblocks roads would be spent int! ** North Island. “Where are our backblocks?” he asked. MEETING OF PROTEST Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Today To protest against the Budget proposals regarding the petrol tax ar.d backhlocks roading finance, a public meeting convened by the Mayo., but arranged by the Canterbury Automobile Association, will be held tomorrow- evening in the City Council Chambers. Representatives of all motoring interests will speak.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 11
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180PETROL TAX REVENUE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 11
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