CO129-517-10 Proposals to introduce taxation on motor-cars and petrol 22-5-1929 - 18-7-1929 — Page 5

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Lord Passfield would inform the Governor that the General orders are confidential departmental instructions issued solely to Officers of Customs and Excise and not to the public, and would request him accordingly to cause them to be treated as confidential.

I am also to refer you to the following reports

:

(a) Royal Commission on Motor Cars (1906)

Evidence (do)

Ca.3080. Ca.3081. v

(b) Departmental Committee on construction and use of Road Locomotives and Heavy Motor Cars in Great Britain (1919)

Report - Ca. 5.

Evidence etc. Cd. 6.

(c) Departmental Committee on Taxation and

Regulation of Road Vehicles

1st, 2nd and 3rd Interim Reports 1920

Cd. 660 (and Stationery

Office Publication)

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

Mertenshaw