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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.

SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS

THE BUDGET

MEMORANDUM..

MOTORING DOCTOR ROAD SAFETY AND

ON TRIAL.

CUT. THE CAR, TAX CLAIM. DENIAL OF DRINK CHARGE.

In a few weeks' time Mr. Noville, Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will induce his first Budget. What will it bring for

motoristä?

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The trial was begun at the Old Bailey of John Weston, 52, medical practitioner," of Richmond road, Kingston, Surrey, who pleaded not guilty to having been under the in

THE WALKER.

RIGHTS WITHOUT

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The Pedestrians Ascoiution was unlucky when its deputation callad on the Minister of Transport. last month, for while they were telling him that "official information !! showed the reads to have been more dangerous in 1991 than in 1930, off- 'cial statistics were at that moment bring issued giving a different pict ture of traffic conditions, writes. Al seen in Ember-lane, Thames Ditton. G. Throssal.

Before a week is over the Chan-thrence of drink to such an extent cellor will receive, à, memorandum from motorists in general urging reduction of taxation.

It will be pointed out in the memorandum and in talks with the

Chancellor that:

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as to be inexpable of having proper control of a motor vehicle,

Sir Percival Clarke, prosecuting, said that on the evening of Sunday, January 3, the doctor's car was

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"Motor taxation in Britain is It was stationary and in a diagonal; In the Metropolitan area, for se crushing that the use of the position across the road, with no which (as the deputation themselves motor has been strangled": home lights. The doctor had apparently', said) detailed figures are alone, sales and irade development have Julighted) to ask his way,

available to the public, the number been gravely checked and our ex-

A police-offieer noticed that do of persons killed in street accidents port trade prospects hive auffer fendant could not walk without last year was 73 less than the ed.?

staggering. His breath smelt of year precoding, and the number of alcohol. When told that he would injured over 1,500 less:

On the be arrcatud, the doctor said, "Don't other hand; it is true that the mum- be silly." At the police station he bar of pedestrians killed rose from remarked Don't talk nonsense. " I am w teetotaler." I shall be ruin-¡

888, 930, but 410 of them-nearly a third of the total donthe-ware out."

killed, says the cold official return, through crossing the road without

The Trade's Claims.

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Mr. Chamberlain will be urged to lower taxation by at least a third, taking the combined horse-power tax and the petrol duty as the total He will be naked for two conces sions, apart from the main issue:

A reduction in the horse-power tax of £1 to 10s. per hp for all cars on which the full licence has been paid for five years, and

The issue of monthly licences to be taken out on the Arst of any month, with a nominal increase for the extra clerking involved so as to encourage people to thkir cars in winter.

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The acting police surgeon formed the opinion that Dr. Westor was under the influencé of drink. De fendant asked, for another doctor. It was an hour before he could be

due care.

Decrease in Accidente.

The number of accidents is lamen,

obtained, and by that time Dr. Wes-table. No motorist would attempt ton Had, considerably improved.

to minimise their seriousness, But last year, for the Arst time this century, there was a "fall in the totals, instead of a riso. Most po lico, officials and export observers,

Dr. Weston, in evidence, said' that about midday on January 3 he had launch at the golf club and one small whisky and soda, That was bis first drink that day. He after such as the patrols of the two motor- Winter storage of cars, which has wards played contract bridge, and ing organisations, agree that a high- increased in the past two or three during the game had another smaller standard of cars and considern- years; has resulted in loss of re-whisky and soda.

tion has been maintained by drivers venue to the State in tax and.

The hearing was adjourned, bail of all kinda of motor vehicle since potrol duty as well as in hardship

come into being allowed.

the Road Traffic Act came to the owner.

forte. Vehicles' are safer. Fonds are safer, though not yet perfect,

All the small and "buby CLTY which have come on to the market in the past eight years have proved that the lower the initial cost of new car with its lower depreciation the greater the proportion coming into motoring, especially when, like British babies," the

cara

are of unquestionable reliability, give the travel the publie need, and their runcing costs are relatively an cheap as the initial cost.

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Sir William Morris was the first to realise this, and his price redue. tions in a period of depression created hundreds of thousands of

new motorista

na thousands of new cars" valued at from £800 to £1,000. Here,

again, the Treasury would benefit by a concession, for what they leat by the lower tax would be more than made up by thousands of second-hand cars being brought into

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Monthly licences Arb Another necessary reform On January 1a car owner has to take out a Beenca for the year or the quarter. If he get his new car during January he can take out a licence from February 1 to December 31, and so on, up to and inclusive of Septem her 1, a a propertion of the annual Fates. 006.

Monthly Licences.

In the Finance "Bil it was pro- vided that a car with an engine eight years old should pay fourth less duty. This concession, it was generally understood, would he progressive for all old ears. The He can take out a licence for the Treasury, however, made it a dead last month of any quarter, renew letter, applying only to ears madeable quarterly or yearly, but he

in 1913,

Tax Anomalies..

We are now in the position of having hundreds of old cars worth, say, 25, paying the same yearly tax

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cannot take out a licence for any one month of the yetir.

Why should it not be possible to buy a monthly motor licence in the same way that one can buy wireless or a dog licence from the

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He was careful to add that the walker can do no wrong, and that

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