Port Adelaide - Tolls
The subject of tolls on the Port Road is discussed in the Register,
6 October 1852, page 2e,
18 and 20 September 1860, pages 2f and 2d,
12 and 23 October 1866, pages 3a and 3e,
3 and 23 November 1866, pages 2c and 3c,
12, 13, 15 and 23 March 1867, pages 3b, 2c, 2d and 2d,
3 and 23 November 1866, pages 2c and 3c,
12, 13, 15 and 23 March 1867, pages 3b, 2c, 2d and 2d,
1 May 1867, page 3b,
Express,
5 and 12 October 1866, pages 2b and 4c,
1 and 23 November 1866, pages 2b and 2d,
Chronicle,
6 July 1867, page 6h,
Register,
2 July 1867, page 2h,
21 September 1867, page 2c.
Tolls on the Port Road are discussed in the Observer,
13 and 27 October 1866, pages 4f and 3d,
16 March 1867, page 1d(supp.)-2c (supp.),
28 September 1867, page 2f.
Comment on this contentious subject appears during 1868 in the Register -
29 January, page 2f,
5 and 7 February, pages 2f and 2d-3f,
4 March, page 2h:
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... It was found that a large proportion of the through traffic was enabled
to avoid the Alberton gate by passing through the streets of Queenstown...
The question of tolls is again raised during a public meeting on the dangerous
condition of the Port Road - see Register,
14 August 1868, page 2f.
An editorial appears on
9 January 1869, page 2c; also see
1 and 29 May 1869, pages 2g and 3f,
1 and 9 June 1869, pages 3a and 3f,
27 April 1870, page 6c,
Parliamentary Paper 68/1868-69.
"Toll Bars" is in the Chronicle,
2 July 1870, page 10a,
"The Battle of the Toll-Bars" in the Observer,
17 September 1870, page 7d; also see
5 November 1870, page 8a.
Parliamentary Paper 72/1870-71 contains a petition seeking the abolition of tolls:
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The end sought by levying tolls, namely, the efficient repair of the road,
is still unattained after three year's operation of the Act, the road being
still greatly inferior to country roads.
Also see Register,
25 June 1870, page 3b,
1 July 1870, page 3d,
15 September 1870, page 5a - the last report tells of patrons' skulduggery at
a toll gate.
Tolls were abolished as from 1 January 1871 - see Register,
31 December 1870, page 5a.
For further information see
6 December 1902, page 8g,
10 January 1903, page 10a,
9 May 1924, page 12g.
Information on the toll gate at Hindmarsh appears on
16 January 1925, page 11d.
