TOLL-GATES.
SURVIVAL OF MEDIAEVALISM. A remit urging the establishment of toll gates as a means of producing local body revenue was severely criticised at a meeting of the Fordell branch of the Farmers’ Union on Monday evening. Mr. W. J. Polson said he was opposed to the proposal, which he characterised as an anachronism and survival of mediaevalism. It was an absurd way to collect revenue and caused a great nuisance to travellers. If the thing was carried to its logical conclusion every local body would have its toll gates. Mr. H. G. Lewis: You don’t mind when you have roads like they have in Taranaki. Mr. J. Hunter said the land was rated double there compared with the land round Wanganui. Mr, Polson said that it was difficult to honestly keep K a toll gate. He admitted that it was an undue impost for a county like Wanganui Cdunty to have to keep a road like No. 1 Line in order, but he considered it was the fault of the community generally. Instead of barriers across the road the Government should take control. It was decided to express disapproval with the remit.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1921, Page 7
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193TOLL-GATES. Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1921, Page 7
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