THE HARBOUR BOARD AND THE TIMBER TRADE.
? TO TUB EDITOR OP THE EVENING POST. Sib — I have just been perusing a most interesting statement given by the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in his address to the members at their quarterly meeting, held on June 22 and whilo fully endorsing most of his t-entiments, we, saw millers on this side of the Straits, cannot understand how to reconcile his assertion that, " all the members of the Harbour Board are unanimous in the desire to make this Port aa free as possible," with this fact, that the majority of the gentlemen composing 1 that august body levy a rate of only three half-pence per hundred feet on all timber exported from their wharf, while, if we send in a cargo from hero to pass along the same wharf, built with public funds, we must pay threepence per hundred feet, or one hundred per cent more for the tame convenience; whereas, being equal contributors, we should receive equal benefits. Is this fair and equitable, or is it promoting free trade ? We think it is fostering the reverse. Trastin? this may lead to the desired remedy, I am, &c, O. M. Milt.B. Havelock, sth July.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1881, Page 2
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