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.)

1876

Those parts of the Counties Act regulating the County Councils relationship with Roads Boards and authorising tolls, special rates and loans secured against same.

Canterbury New Brighton Bridge Act demonstrates just how weird the world of politics can get.

New Public Works Act vests all roads in the Crown and clarifies provisions for taking of land, compensation for same, and stopping of existing roads. Also includes first national road rules outlawing speeding, failing to keep left and driving whilst drunk or asleep. Penalty for drunk driving is up to 14 days imprisonment with or without hard labour. File includes appropriations from Immigration and Public Works Loans Act for the years 1877-1882

1877

The Lands Act gave the Government the right to generally take land for roads without payment except in certain circumstances

Auckland Highways

Stopping Of Roads Act specifies how to dispose of land no longer needed for a road.

An Act to amend Taranaki Provincial Council road and bridge ordinances.

1879

Terminates the public/private partnership on the Oreti Toll Bridge in Southland County.

1881

TABLE showing the POPULATION (exclusive of Maoris) of the Colony of New Zealand, as on the 3rd April, 1881, given in Provincial Districts ; also the Maori Population at the same date. (Subject to revision.)

1882

Rewrite of 1876 Public Works Act contains new provisions for maintenance of roads.

Roads and Bridges Construction Act and Roads Board Act. These two acts radically reform the way roads boards and county councils are to receive and use their subsidies from the Land Fund. Highest priority is given to building bridges which suggests that drowning in rivers was still the main cause of road deaths. When this source of road funding was introduced in 1871 over 100 travellers were drowning in rivers every year and with only 240,000 colonists this was such an appalling death rate that it was known throughout the Empire as the New Zealand Death.

AN ACT to provide for the Payment of Rates in respect of Crown Lands. and the Crown and Native Lands Rating Acts Repeal Act, 1888. ~ and that was the end of the Crown being a good neighbour.

1883

An act to remove tolls from the Wanganui Bridge.

1885

This new Land Act clarifies roading compensation to be paid to local authorities when Crown lands sold or leased."

1886

An Act to authorise the construction and maintenance of a bridge across Otago Harbour including authority to raise loans and granting exemptions from certian toll provisions in the Public Works Act

An Act to allow part of Ballance St to be closed and built upon for the Wellington Exhibition.

Those parts of the Counties Act regulating the County Councils relationship with Roads Boards and authorising tolls, special rates and loans secured against same.

1893

AN ACT to provide for the Administration and Disposition of certain Land in the County of Cheviot, lately purchased by the Crown. (And to avoid the Crown's normal legal obligations to financially assist the District Roads Board with maintenance of roads serving the Crown Lands being sold or leased.)

AN ACT to extend the Powers of certain County Councils so as to enable them to raise the Funds necessary to defray the Cost of the Maintenance and Repair of County Roads. The first use of vehicle registration fees to fund road works.

1896

The population of the colony according to the census of the 12th April 1896,

1898

ACTs to empower the Borough Councils of Masterton and Stratford to take over, construct, and maintain certain Private Roads in those Boroughs without the Necessity of Previous Construction by the Adjoining Owners.

An attempt by the Canterbury Cyclists Union to get local authorities to build cycle lanes, with part funding from bicycle registration fees. Unfortunately the Bill was not passed.