List of Provincial Acts and Ordinances covering roads, bridges and tolls.

1861

Census table showing provincial colonist population by age and gender.

1864

Earliest legislation on toll evasion and taking of land for roads.

Magazine article about Heathcote Toll Swingbridge

1867

Those parts of the Municipal Corporations Act regulating streets and tolls thereon.

1868

Financial returns of District Road Boards 1867/68 and Analysis of Provincial Acts as to Roads Boards prepared for the Select Committee on Road Boards Bill and table summarising key Road Boards information for each Province including revenue from rates, tolls and provincial taxes.

1870

The Immigration and Public Works Act and how funds were to be raised and spent on railways and roads in the North and South (Middle) Island. Includes appropriations from Immigration and Public Works Loans Act for the years 1870-1875.

Mr. STAFFORD moved, For a return of the names of all persons who have been drowned in in any river or stream in New Zealand to srve as a reminder that steps should be taken to prevent, in future, that lamentable loss of life which had occurred in New Zealand for want of bridges.

1871

Legislation authorising establishment of District Roads Boards, Highways Boards and Native Districts Roads Boards. Introduces special roading rates and lighting rates.

SCHEME for the Distribution of 50,000 pounds among the Road Boards of the various Provinces, and the County of Westland, as proposed by the Superintendents of the several Provinces, and the Chairman of the County Council.

1875

Acts clarifying tolls payable on roads in the former Provinces of Wellington and Otago.

The Abolition of Provinces Act (abolished the Provincial Councils and protected District Roads Boards) and the related Financial Arrangements Act (gauranteed Roads Boards continuation of funding previously provided from land sales by provincial councils.)