AKITIO HARBOUR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 4

AKITIO HARBOUR.

THE EifEEZING WORKS SCHEME. (By Telegraph-Special Reporter,) Mastcrton, March 'JS. ' Siieakiiig at ili'o supper arranged iu Jiis lionour aftor tho adctrcss iii the'town 'Hall to-night, tho Hon.; F.M. U- l'lslier i explained away a misconception that had arisen about tho freezing works scliomo lie. had. put beforo the settlers iiL&M Ejst Coast district. Ho had >n effect promised to recommend the Government 'to construct h wharf' at Alutio on condi- , tion that hce>.mg woilts were established at tho spot, and lie had estimated : that it would cost. £00,000 to erect the fi oozing work.. Now. it had been said thai lie had stipulated foi the coustruc- ( ipii of woi'.ks t<> cost 'Ho dyne nothing of tho sort, 110 did not profess to bo an export, and lw did/hot oroicnd to say that, works could not bo erected for less than £G0;p00. Ho had since, been advised tlint works ? CfUita suifnient to servo that district iii " tho meautimo could, ho-put IUP for y.o.j j'nvucl.i loss—perhaps, for less iluin > £40,CK)0-. He wished it to bo clearly understood that Ms cjily stiou.Utioii was that freezniß weeks should bo .established winch would lave- equipment to deal .with the shefr the district would produce, irrospco-ti* o! what- tho cost of erection might tur out to be. ,