["Page 4", "SUNDAY POST", "Sunday, December 24, 1961", "SUNDAY POST", "Car Owners' Santa Claus", "THE announcement of a substantial in-\ncrease in motor car licensing fees for 1962\nhas not come to date soon.", "Some people have condemned the timing\nbecause it came a week before Christmas. But\nwhy not?", "It was a fitting Christmas present for\nthose to whom the acquisition of a private\nmotor car is also a signal for licentiosness\nor prodigality.", "Now aspiring car owners will more and\nmore be persuaded to count the cost.", "Unfortunately, not only private motor\nvehicles are to be affected.", "The running cost of road transport will\nslightly go up; slightly, it must be emphasised,\nbecause the level of increase is but a pittance\ncompared with the over-all cost of running\nand maintaining the lorries and buses on\nour roads.", "There is therefore little justification for\nany rise in licensing fees will make only\na slight intra into the volume of profits\nand the transport owners can very well afford\nthis.", "Of more benefit to the country as a\nwhole, however, is the fact that a Federal\nrevenue of more than £600,000 is to accrue\nfrom the increase.", "The combined revenue accruing to the\nRegions will not doubt accrue according to", "Thus will so much additional funds be\navailable for the development of new roads\nand the improvement and maintenance of old\nones.", "Also of particular interest are the less\ntangible benefits of unity and co-operation\namong the country's political units demon-\nstrated by the announcement.", "All four Governments of the Federation are\nnot only co-operative but will benefit from the\nnew licence fees.", "It is one more example of the things\nwhich bind us together.", "No Xmas For Tshombe", "With the announcement of a week of a\nnew undertaking by President Tshombe to\nbring back Katanga into the African Republic\nand recognise the indivisibility of the country,\nAfricans everywhere in the world ought to be\nhaving a merrier Christmas than that was ex-\npected.", "But there is news that Mr. Tshombe is\nabout to revert to type, arguing that the\nagreement arising from his peace talk with\nPrime Minister Cyrille Adoula need not be\nbinding.", "Fortunately, Mr. Adoula has already\nindicated his determination to employ force\nif Tshombe should go back on his word.", "Mr. Adoula should have the full backing\nof the United Nations forces, whose striking\npower the arrogant stooze of European vested\ninterests in Katanga has experienced during\nthe last three weeks.", "NEW MOTOR PARK\nNECESSARY AT\nAJEGUNLE", "TOMMY-DU, Apapa:", "PERHAPS most peo-\nple would agree with\nMr. Adoula's Motor-\nPark, at the end of Malu\nRoad, is located at a dan-\ngerous point. It is surely\none of the word points\nin the Federal territory", "NO CEASE-FIRE\nIN KATANGA", "LADEPO LAWAL, Badan,", "I am also support President\nNkilele, who has bold effort and sorely\nencouraged the Federal Government\nof Katanga in a \"triumor No. 1.\"", "Frankly speak, the people\nare not so happy with the\ntriumor. They are the enemies\nof Katanga.", "I am sure that the people\nshould be crucified.", "I am sure that it will be no cause for\ncensure, if the Federal Government\nis not to be co-ordinate in Katanga until\nthe end of the year.", "If the United Nations\nGovernment fails to do this, it will simply\nbe dominated.", "Awka Water\nScheme", "AFOKA OFIAELI, Esiqua:", "I am writing to you for Awka soon which,\nhas not yet operated for long, but has been\nhired to benefit all the villages which\nare not benefited all the villages which\nare benefited.", "I am writing to you for Awka soon which,\nhas not yet operated for long, but has been\nhired to benefit all the villages which\nare not benefited all the villages which\nare benefited.", "I am appealing to the Ministry of\nWorks, Eastern Nigeria, to get\nthe approval of the Ministry of\nWorks, Eastern Nigeria, to get\nthe approval of the Ministry of\nWorks, Eastern Nigeria, to get\nthe approval of the Ministry of\nWorks, Eastern Nigeria, to get", "the approval of the whole project.", "Fireworks At\nChristmas", "\"A CITIZEN\", Lagos:", "THERE is booming business already for fire-\nworks traders; evidence of this could be\nseen each night as you move along the streets.", "for a motor park. Alter-\nsively, I suggest that mat-\nters should be settled by\nmaking a deposit of £10,000\nfor the park to be vacated.\nThis is a matter that re-\nquires the attention of the\nauthorities who seem to be more interested", "Experience of the author-\nities in Katanga, I know, is\nnot what one would expect.", "I am sure that the Federal\nGovernment will draw the attention of parents\nand schoolchildren to the fact that the\nauthorities are not responsible to retain their\nresponsibility to the children.", "We need to draw the attention of the\nauthorities to the fact that the Federal\nGovernment is not responsible to retain its\nresponsibility to the children.", "We can still enjoy the Federal\nChristmas, but we must be\nsafely endowing the children\nwith the money that they\nwill all read your letters.", "I will all your readers a\nHAPPY CHRISTMAS.", "THROUGH THE POST", "positive direction. The posi-\ntion is even made more dan-\ngrous by the fact that the\ndrivers who park their vehi-\ncles on the main road because\nof lack of parking space,\nare not allowed to park their\ntraffic congestion.", "The authorities concerned\nshould find a more suitable", "in posting tax collectors\nalong the streets who, each\nmorning, collect the taxes\nfor the Federal Government,\ndemanding tax receipts.\nOne of the authorities concerned\nshould use the money to pay\nthe taxes they could live happily,", "you said it! . . . but why?", "SILHOUETTE", "Elaine de Silhouette, as secretary of the French treasury, handed over a clock of money. But the clock was not to light he used to squeak.", "Old Louis XIV gave her\nquite a poach police, but\nElaine furnished it with\nwar surplus, and to have\na sou or two, hung the\nwalls with inexpensive out-\nfit patterns, instead of\nthe usual oil paints. These block\nbargain portraits have\nsince borne his name.", "I am sorry, I cannot give you any information about this matter at present. I am sorry, but I cannot give you any information about