WANGANUI HARBOUR

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 6

WANGANUI HARBOUR

Re-election of Chairman RAILWAYS’ COMPETITION Dominion Special Service. Wanganui. May 18. Mr. IV. Morrison was re-elected chairman nt the annual meeting of the Wanganui Harbour Board. His honorarium was fixed at £75. Mr. W. J. Rogers was elected deputy-chairman. At the ordinary monthly meeting of the board it was decided to hold a conference on June 8 to consider matters in conneel ion with the port’s trade and lighterage. Reporting on tlie results of tlie deputation from tlie board which interviewed the Prime Minister, lit. Hon. M. J. Savage, tiie Minister of Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, and the general manager of railways, Mr. G. Muckley, on the matter of the trade which had been taken from the port by the Railways Department, the chairman said tho Prime Minister gave them a sympathetic hearing. A House committee would be set up to go into the whole question of the country’s transport, which had resolved itself into a national matter. Opportunity would be given the board to place its evidence before the committee. Tlie chairman said tlie board’s case hud been strengthened by tlie watersiders’ viewpoint of what deprivation of trade from the port involved. It was decided to invite the watersiders to make their representations to the committee with the board.

The finance committee’s reeomnicudntion that Captain R. D. Stewart, of the m.v. Breeze, be appointed to the position of pilot on the board’s staff was approved. A notice of motion, “That owing to the high cost of administration of the Town Wharf, the board endeavour to have legislation enacted whereby the Town Wharf be taken over by the board,” was carried unanimously.