TARANAKI AND ITS TOLLGATES.
"Taranaki, with its toll-gates, is the only part of New Zealand that possesses good roads," says a recent southern visitors, Mr W. Stuart Wilson, to that district. "The other provinces have roads of various degrees of badness, some of them mere apologies for roads. The Minister of Public Works was criticised adversel} some time ago for having said that the system of raising money by means of toll-gates for the improvement of the roads ought to be carefully considered. But I think that people who are acquainted with the Taranaki roads will agree with him. Any system must be tested by its results. If there is some other method of getting good roads, let us have it by all means. But if the choice is between toll-gates and good roads on the one hand and no toll-gates and bad roads on the other hand, then as sensible people, wi. ought not to hesitate. The toll-gates are showing in Taranaki that, regarded as makers of fine roads, they can deliver the goods."
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Waipa Post, Volume XIX, Issue 1075, 9 April 1921, Page 5
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