ISOLATED WAIROA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 15

ISOLATED WAIROA.

. .' QUESTION: OP HAEBOT3B LOAN. . ~ 111/ Tclcjrnpij—Press Akgeetatlon-i t j . ._ ' Wairoa, 'November 25. Tho chairman of the Barbour Board and two members, left last, night to givo evidenoo before the Local Bills Committee of tho House, in connection , with the . Wairoa Harbour Emponenng and/Loan Bill, .which empowers the raising .of a J378,01)0 loan for river works. Juet at preeent the bar is very shallow, and the ohannel .crooked. 1 / Though magnificent weathor prevails, 1 the Aroha is .blocked l insido, 1 loaded with wool, flai, and tow, and oannot.get.out. The. is outside,: loaded. with merihan-: dise; and caniiot get'in./r.AIsO, 560;balcs.of -wool are stacked/on tho wharves, and 'these are expected to reach 1000 by .tho end of the week. A counter - move- is being -.put ' forward ' by 'tha Waikokopu people io construct a motor railway, 80 miles long.' The oounty'is .to be asked to : . nhd , jGIi.OOO, the borough J24000, and: the Government X 15,000. Tho settlers aro to be asked to give the land for the line. /It is quite' certain that tho borough will not help, as it is directly against:Wairoa interests; Tho council hung : np the question, and decided,-,: but net unanimously, to send a telegram or a' small deputation to oppobo tho Bill.■: This will peouliarly affect, farmers,' as all our wool will miss the local sales., . - 1 -- ; 1 :, //'\ :: v A Speoial meeting of tho Borough - Council to-day: passed a resolution in' favour/ of the passage of tho Wairoa Harbour 'Empowering and Loan Bill in its :prescnt: form, and asking the co-operation of the Hon. J. Carroll in passing it, Copies aro to be 6ent to Messrs. J. V. Brown, A. Dillon, and A. T. Ngata, M.P.'6. The meofins was thoroughly unanimous, and representative ''of 'the majority of,,the .burgesses..