FARMERS’ TRUCKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 6

FARMERS’ TRUCKS

PARTIAL EXEMPTION FROM HEAVY TRAFFIC LICENCE FEES. A POSSIBLE ANOMALY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The fiction of the Government in amending the Transport Regulations by reducing by half the heavy traffic licence fees payable by farmers and market gardeners on trucks up to a certain capacity would meet with general approval and appreciation on the part of these interests, and he thought on the part of the community generally, said Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion President of the Farmers Union. They would realise that [it was an attempt, if not a very complete one, to adjust heavy traffic charges on these vehicles more nearly to the amount, of use they made of ithe road. He pointed out. however, that in important areas farmers’ trucks engaged in purely farm business had by cal action, approved of by the Minister, been made completely exempt from any fees, and in these cases the Minister's announcement that no exemptions would be allowed meant that there would be ( an increase in the actual burden they would have to bear. "However, with the knowledge that the Minister is fully aware of the unfairness of the charge, and his sympathetic pttitude, he no doubt will see that no increased burden is placed upon the farming community at this critical juncture.” added Mr Mulholland.