THE GREEN ISLAND TOLLBAR.

Evening Star, Issue 4234, 21 September 1876, Page 2

THE GREEN ISLAND TOLLBAR.

A deputation waited upon bis Honor the DeputySuperintendent this morning, constating of Messrs J. J. Eagerty (Mayor). Stoddart, T. Howorth. Wallace, and other residents in the Green Island district, with referenoe to the proposed removal of the Hillside tollbar te Green Island. Mr Eagsbtt said the residents considered the erection of the tollbar a hardship to them in mtty ways, and at a public meeting held at Green Island last evening and attended by over 100 people a resolution was passed that it was not desk 1 ' able that the proposed removal should he carried out. Tkey had taxed themselves heavily in years past, and had made good.roads for themselves, and they now decidedly ©bjested to this fresh tax being placed on them. At present people could come all the way from CatH**s Ei x&t without.paying toll, and they thought Ifcia toll-bar should be abolished altogetb er, as was done in the ease of Anderson's Bay and other bars. The only result of removing it to Green Island would be that the toll, would be evaded, as that could Ae done by going a few miles round. r^ His Hovoa aaid the Government were merely ac s n ?^ at I tbe "Vast o' the Provincial Couneu. which had resolved that ah toll-bars near DuneuM be removed toa convenient distanoe from the town boundaries. What could the deputation say to gether, or did they obieet only to the site chosen, which was near the Volunteer Hotel t *""*?""*• LJ*S£ k ?*l£? residents wished the bar ahgLShed. altogether. HeT>elieVeaWHonOThad publicly expressed a»e opinion that all ton-bars should be abolished. sl^«w™^v ba * J? fl i eo^ edl -' **■ opinion. . MrJHowoRTH thought the Government should take into consideration the expense of removing and greeting the bar, aud also the cost of collecting; SSflfc'Ml"" »°* ™T gmt outhat road,-una it would be a long time before these expenses were covered. Anotherpoint was that by the adoption of the site chosen ilTpeople living at the top of the Bosh would pass toll-freS, whiUrthe residents in. the lower Bush would have to contribute tolls. .This.waswideubtedbrunjust. ■• ■ a^Jm? 0 * teid I* T"L al *»y" diincull matter to ;

Mr Sxoddikc instanced the consumers of coal who lived in the direction- of Kaikorai Talley at sufferers by the proposed site of the baiT,«t3he effect would be to raise the price of coal irapplied to them at least 2s a load. Again, people Wngiiiff in daily supplies of dairy pK)dttoeiioidd be iSaxed to a considerable extent. -

«. H l B s<>»P* wwd he would bring the matter to at tlDgo /S eExßo ? tiT «- His own reefing and the feelings of the members of the Executive 0^ of /^ li,,h^^ toU - b,u whether actionable? **** "! ." ofc *** *»»*<*> w "