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THE PROPOSED DISCONTINUANCE OF TARANAKI HARBOUR WORKS.

? INDIGNATION MEETING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. | united press association.! New Plymouth, This Dat. A public meeting was held in Now Plymouth last evening relative to the Parliamentary Committee on the Harbour works, when there were settlers present from all parts of the district. Mr. H. R. Richmond was in the chair. The following resolutions were carried unanimously, although thore were one or two noisy persons present : — (1.) This meeting protests, in the most emphatic manner, against the conclusion arrived at by the New Plymouth Harbour Committee of tho House of Representatives, such conclusion boing erroneous, and evidently based on insufficient and incorrect data, and the Board and the distriot not having had sufficient opportunity to adduce evidence. (2.) That this meeting is of opinion that tho Taranaki District is clearly entitled to the 25 per cent, of her Land Fund for harbour purposes, as other districts of the colony have had nearly the whole of the proceeds of their landed estate devoted to local pnrposes, whilst Taranaki, owing to the native difficulty and disturbances, has never received her tair share. (3.) That the colony has pledged itse'.f to the carrying out of the Now Plymouth Harbour works, and, upon the faith of that pledge, very many persons have settled and invested in this district, both in the purchase of Crown lands and otherwise, and that this meeting is of opinion that a stoppage of the Harbour works and a reappropriation of the Harbour Fund to other purposes would be a gross violation of public faith guaranteed by legislative enactment, and would inflict an injnry on the whole district. One or two attempted to oppose these resolutions, but they wore listened to with impatience.

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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 40, 16 August 1881, Page 2

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THE PROPOSED DISCONTINUANCE OF TARANAKI HARBOUR WORKS. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 40, 16 August 1881, Page 2

THE PROPOSED DISCONTINUANCE OF TARANAKI HARBOUR WORKS. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 40, 16 August 1881, Page 2

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