TOLL-GATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1921, Page 4

TOLL-GATES.

TARANAKI COUNTY PROPOSALS. COUNCIL TAKES FIRST STEPS. The toll-gates proposals of the Taranaki County Council were briefly discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the council. The assistant Under-Secretary for Public Works wrote with reference to the proposed toll-gates on the Devon, Junction, and Main South Roads. It was necessary for the council to make, public their intention for fourteen days in some newspaper circulating in the districts concerned, together with the proposed scale of tolls. Copies of the newspaper, together with a sketch plan showing the site of the proposed tollgates, should then be forwarded to the Minister. This procedure was necessary in order that local authorities and others interested might be given an opportunity of objecting to the establishment of the toll-gates if they so desired. The Minister would then be in a position to decide if it was desirable to set up a commission to inquire into the proposal. A discussion took place on the question of toll-gates, councillors generally being in favor of the Installation of the proposed new toll-gates. Cr. A. Morton, whilst not opposed to toll-gates, thought that the council should ascertain what support thev were likely to receive from other local bodies, especially from other Taranaki county councils, before they were put to the expense of advertising in the Press. The question of procedure was eventually left in the hands of the chairman and Cr. Morton.