THE HAMILTON TOLL GATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5996, 4 February 1881, Page 6

THE HAMILTON TOLL GATE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — This morning's Hebald contains, amongst its Waikato correspondence, an account of a breaking through the toll gate on the Hamilton Bridge by Messrs. C E. Pearson and H. J. Paton. As your account only gives the toll-keeper's version of the affair, I should be obliged if you -would insert what may be said for the other side, and this both, the above and a third gentleman, who was present, can vouch, for. Some few minutes having elapsed, as the toll-keeper did not make his appearance, my brother got out of the buggy, and without using the slightest violence to the gate, opened it in the usual manner. No one said anything about "breaking the gate open.' . Just as the was passing through, the tollkeeper made his appearance, and made use of most, insolent language. This happened as the buggy was leaving Hamilton, the bridge, toll having been paid on entering the township. Next morning, when two of the gentlemen who had been present at the supposed breaking through the gate and myself drovo over the bridge, the toll-keeper said he was going to send out a summons. Upon our asking him. to show us the damage done to the gate, he told us to " hold our jaw".— I am, &c, Alfred W. Pe.vrson.