UPKEEP OF ROADS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13965, 15 August 1919, Page 4

UPKEEP OF ROADS

:. Th© new proposal of the Taranaki County Coiincil tx> raise reven:u© by means of toll-gates instead of 'by the licensing 1 of vehicles appears, likely to «rea!te a more definite oleiavajge between town and country than the original iproposial;. 'Meetings of ratepayers in the rural districts rather fa-TOiUr the toll-garte alter native; amd a.fc a meeting of the Okato dairy %otK>ry isppipliers, -which d'isouissed the matter, ratepayers strongly approved the action, of the county in endeavooiring to raise revenue directly from the users of the roads, -whether by means of licenses or toll. Indeed, the meeting went further, aind resolved that if the county did not 'take action the proposed loan for the constiruo'tiioni of tihe tar-seal-ed roads would inot Ibe gweni a hearimig. . On* the other hand' tihe Borough. Ooluincil Was rumamiinously resolved: "Tbat the Taranaki County Council be infonned that this Council is of oipinion that tihe establishment of toll-gates omi !tihe troadis leading to New Plymouth would be even more detrimienitlal to New Plymouth than the mforcinig of the vehicle li/oensi<ngi 'bylaws, and, und'er the circumstances, cannot see .its vr&yto agree to the establishmenit of tollgates." —'Ha,wera Star.