GREAT NEW HARBOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 258, 1 November 1933, Page 7

GREAT NEW HARBOUR.

Striking Offset to Rioting By Arabs. BRITAIN'S WORK IN PALESTINE (British Official Wireless.) (Rccclvcd 1 p.m.) RUGBY, October 31. The magnificent harbour at Haifa, the first to be constructed in Palestine since Herod built Port Cacsarca in honour of his imperial patron, ivas formally opened to-day. It transforms an unprotected roadstead into the finest harbour in the Levant. Under British rule Palestine lias regained pre-emincnce as a trading centre, and as a highway joining Western Asia with Northern Africa. Palestine is actually one of the most prosperous countries in the world to-day, and Haifa is the nerve centre of its commercial development. The Colonial Secretary, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, in a message, made an outspoken reference to the recent riots. Ho said: "To-day's ceremony is overshadowed by the.deplorable disturbances which have taken place. I would speak very plainly to the people of Palestine. "Thirteen years ago Great Britain accepted the mandate of Palestine. The mandate carries with it a clear duty to the Arabs and to tlie Jews. That duty will be discharged fully and fairly without fear or favour. There is under the mandate an obligation to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, but at the same time there is an equally definite obligation to safeguard the rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine. "Both obligations will be most carefully observed, and plans are now in hand which will materially benefit all classes of the community. That work will go forward, but there is a paramount duty to preserve law and order, and that duty too will be most thoroughly discharged."