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Taranaki toll-gate

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Taranaki toll-gate

This toll gate stood at Waipuku, on the road between Stratford and New Plymouth, in the 1920s. Collecting tolls directly from road users was one way for local authorities to fund road construction and maintenance.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Making New Zealand Centennial Collection (PAColl-3060)

Reference: MNZ-1674-1/4-F

by John Reginald Wall

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Roads, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18542/taranaki-toll-gate (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.