PETROL TAX INCREASE
PROTEST BY MOTORISTS STATEMENT ADDRESSED TO PREMIER. RECONSIDERATION SOUGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
A statement on behalf of the North and South Island Motor Unions, protesting against the 4d increase in petrol tax, has been prepared by Dr E. E. Porritt, president of the North Island Union, and Mr W. R. Carey, president of the South Island Union, and addressed to the Prime Minister.
It is protested that motorists, who represent approximately onerfifth of the total population, already pay all other taxes imposed by the Government and local bodies, and for years, through the petrol tax, have been forced to contribute 4Jd a gallon to the Consolidated Fund for the relief of the general taxpayer, and are now called upon to contribute a further million and a half for defence purposes. The Government is earnestly requested to reconsider the question favourably, with a view to spreading more equitably over the whole community the amount ot money involved in the proposed increased petrol tax.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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168PETROL TAX INCREASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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