FOXTON HARBOUR DIFFICULTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 673, 25 November 1909, Page 11

FOXTON HARBOUR DIFFICULTY.

.'•"■; ■■;.;v''/.':,pNEJVyi:VY;pUT;':;..-'-'-' 'C ::,;.■; > ■• -■'. (Dy Telegraph.-Bpcolal, Corrojpsnaent.),' .:. '•.''■'■ ■■'■? '■■''■'■'; ,; '■,''.■ ..';-. ' /Maritii, November' 24./-. At the Manawatu County Council meeting today the chairman (Mr. 'Ji G. ./Wilson). made roiorenco to the' Foxtpu/Harbour affairs/' Ho: stated'that,- after; tho visit of the Hon./ J. A.. Millar,; they, were given to / iinderstand that th 6 Govornniont could not see its way /to. hand back the wharf; It, seemed to him (thespeaker): that thofo no'Veason'why.'tho wharf Should, not-bo sold to'tho Harbour 3oard. The money cotild bo borrowed for this, and:it woulil thus onablp thorn to/carry out river iiuprpvenrnts.Tho incomoiat the wharf was about ,<;2500 a year, and: the cost of building the wharf was but 'it should now be offered at a considerably reduced: sum )>ecauso of depreciation. MoneycOuld be borrowed on (ho security of the ratepaycre at 5 per.cent. Even if the interest and sinking fund and v cost of cblleotion amounted to JGI2OO. a year thoro would still be a inepmo, for'the board to .improyo tho rivor..- Thoro would be':no .necessity to collect a" rate, for ho predicted a .further increaso .receipts,'"and, therefore, if.tho ratppnyers in the county agreed to,tho ■proposal,'an arrangemont'between-the'.Govern;: raont and tho' Harhour Board, to hand over the wharf would probably, bo. arrived at. This was undoubtedly the. best courso to adopt; He was .against:rating for' tho piirposo of- improving the imrhoUr. : If t.ho whavf was niidor tho control of the TFarbour Board tho incomo would-pay .for thesP it was of, tho utmost: jinportanco' that tho rivor I should .rocoivo attontjon, as there was/great, possiT)ilitio3foi' this harbour.-. ; : • ■ Othor. councillors conenrred, remarking that ;tho posnibilities of not be too/highly estimated. . The fooling of the meeting was that-tho chairman's suggestion should bo at onco taken up. : . / ''••