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TOLL GATES ABOLITION.

The following is the text of the ToilGates Abolition Dill that is being brought before Parliament by Mr. C. A. Wilkin--6011, M.P.

A Bill intituled An Act to provide for the Abolition of "Toll-gates. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Tollgates Abolition Act, 1!117, and shall come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eighteen. 2. (1) Sections one hundred and nine-ty-eight and two hundred and five of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1008 (relating to tolls) are hereby repealed, save as regards ferries and tolls thereat. (2)Sections one hundred and fifty-six to one hundred and seventy-five of the Public Works Act, 1908, and paragraph (f) of section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, Iflll (relating to tolls) are hereby repealed, save as regards ferries and tolls thereat. 3. (1) After the commencement of this Act, and notwithstanding anything in any public or local Act to the contrary, it shall not be lawful for any local authority to establish any toll-gate or to collect any toll from any person using any road, street, or bridge; and all tollgates in existence on that date shall thereupon be abolished.

("2) If any toll abolished by this Act has before the commencement of this Act been let, the lessee shall lie entitled to a refund of a proportionate part of the rent paid by him for the toll iu respect of the unexpired portion of the term of his lease.

4. On the application of a local authority having control tof any road., street, or bridge on or at which a toll was in existence immediately before the commencement of this Act, 'the Govern-or-(!eneral shall appoint a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1!>08. to inquire into and report' as to what apportionment (if any) should be made to the cost of the maintenance of any such road, street, or bridge, and among what local authorities such apportionment should be made; and the provisions of section one hundred and nine and one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, ]!> OS. shall,'with the necessary modifications, apply in respect to every such application' and apportionment.

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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1917, Page 6

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TOLL GATES ABOLITION. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1917, Page 6

TOLL GATES ABOLITION. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1917, Page 6

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