Wheel Tax.
—♦ — PRESENTATION TO MR ADLAM.
When the Taranaki County Council were about to adjourn for lunch at the meeting on Monday, Mr Horrocks stated that ho had been requested by the ratepayers of the Moa Ridiug to thank Mr Adlam, who was alleged to be the father of the wheel tax, for the self sacrifice he had made in destroying the " infant," and to commemorate the event they had decided to orect a statute to him, a site for which they would ask the Council to provide.
Mr Horrocks then produced the plan for the memorial, which represented a man's figure on a ; pedestral holding in one hand a wheel, while in the other was a rope, at the end of which dangled the figure of au infant. Underneath the following inscription was placed :
" This statute was erected in loving memory by the grateful ratepayers of the Moa Riding, in the year of our Lord, 1896, To Adlam, father of the wheel tax, who nobly worked out the salvation of this district by the strangulation of his year-old-child. R.1.P." Underneath this was the representation of a wheel tax docket, enclosing these words : "T.C.C., No. 1896, Class B." Mr Adlam, who took the proceedings good-naturedly, suggested that the Council should get the plan framad, and hang it up in the Conucil room.—Herald.
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Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 159, 10 January 1896, Page 2
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222Wheel Tax. Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 159, 10 January 1896, Page 2
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