THAMES COAST ROAD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4464, 8 September 1922, Page 1

THAMES COAST ROAD.

Q ERECTION OF TOLL-GATE, COUNCILS AT VARIANCE.. The Thames County Council has received a set-back in. its proposal to erect a toll-gate on the Coast Road. At the Council meeting on Wednesday a letter from the Minister of Public Wor,ks advised that he would be willing to recommend the erection of a toll-gate on the Coast Road subject to the Coromandel County Council giving its consent, but the Coromandel County Council in a communication emphatically refused to give the required consent. In reply to the Coromandel County Council’s refusal the Minister wricite: “I s.hal'l be pleased to give your representations every consideration and will communicate with, you further. The Thames council had offered to exempt Coromandel County vehicles from the toll. The chairman said he could not see that the tpll-gate would make a very great difference to Coromandel. The gate would be pratcically 36 miles away. There would not be much traffic frpm Coromandel; itself. It was not the ordinary traveller whom they wished to tax., but the "joy rider, who should be the one to pay. He regretted the Council’s request had been turned down. Cr. Faithful could not see why Coromandel was against the toll-gate, which would greatly benefit them,, it being proposed that all the money derived therefrom be spent on the road. It was decided to write to the Coromandel County Council on the lines of a letter sent to the Minister.