"BARBAROUS."
AN OPINION ON TOLL. GATES. jßy Telcgrapli.—Special Correspondent.) Wangartui, August 10. Tli# thorny question of toll Rales, which hits veicd tho minds of many Tarnnaki County Councillors, and causod a lot of ill-feiling fcetwaan. town and country, was revived at a meeting of tho Eginont County Council. Mr. Wllloox, of liahotu (whoso feeling apparently had been accentuated by the proximity of a toll gato which, iu his «pis.ion, collects upwards of .£2ooo— a clear profit of .£llOO over ex. penses) made, strsng protest again'st tho continued eicpenso. 1I« considered that Egmont wa« praalised on all sides, and lis moved that a protest b» sent to tho authorities in Wellington against their continued existence. "They nro a barbarons antiquated excrescence, and should be taken off every road," ho said. The motion was reject oil.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1825, 11 August 1913, Page 6
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134"BARBAROUS." Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1825, 11 August 1913, Page 6
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