THE TOLL GATE QUESTION.
Thbr^'W a"^rowin| f -bpuuW among the Wairarapa East county council that with the, view, of pratectiner and maintaining county roads, toll : gateis Willhive to beresumedy isMembeia.have, for some months past (aaysjbe Wairaraoa Star), been ; trymg >to,,regukW the- width of tires, but it is leafed that any 1 by-Jaws' that can be Revised wiir-proye .^operative. Tlie'fact is dawning ?dn c6'uncillo^s all round that tolls are- unavoidable if tiie rbaasare to'he pctisepyed from being ait to pieces,, by ;: UAconscipnable lpads aud nai^ow;. tires, and- fhej pockets of the rate.- 1 payers are to be -spared the ' undue infliction of paying for a traffic in wHich'some of them are bufc slightly interested; Thei Ooudcil' has decided to pht a toll oh stock i travelling along 1 the East- Coast from • Hawke*s!Bay,and we: shall aiot be sur-i prised ifft.his rs followed up by, the restq-! ration of .tolls to. catch the general traffic at the poipts where it concentrates!. When lolls were abolished' within the county Some years' ago' we exp ! reßse!i ! 'the 6pmion that the course taken was unwise premature, and weare therefore not sar-i prised' to find the present Council evin-j ing a disposition to undo ; the blunder of their predecessors.. . i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1638, 18 February 1886, Page 2
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204THE TOLL GATE QUESTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1638, 18 February 1886, Page 2
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