OPUNAKE HARBOR BOARD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 4

OPUNAKE HARBOR BOARD

The following letter from Mr M. J. Macßeynolds was received at Thursday's meeting of the Harbor Board. As_ I advised your Board at our fleeting: on the 9th inst., I do hereby tender my resignation as chairman and member of the Opunake Harbor Board, i much regret being obliged to take this course, But we are asked to take the Slatrorm in the various centres of our istrict and try to persuade the ratepayers to guarantee a loan of £48,000 for harbor /imprqvemen!ts, and, of course, we are expected to promise that the funds wilt "Se honestly and advantageously expended. What guarantee ? an,yc«give that this promise will be faithfully kept? Could we refer to our past acts as testifying to our probity?; buppose some one asked: Is it a fact that you let for one pound sterling per year property- belongings to. the ratepayers, the letting value of which is at least £45 per year? I fear, after our explanation in this connection, they w?!g not say, "Well done, good and ■W?K U! servantsj because you have been; iaithtul over a few things, we will place lV^r^n^ftWß**?- **t proposed that the Wharf,Gbmpanyshould get debentures bearing interest for five year* at SJ.per cent,. oil the value -of their* .which for nineteen years had not returned them one cent > it cannot: be said that I wanted to *dt unjustly to the shareholders in the Wharf Company while frying -to get" a squaredeal for the Harbor Board -■'•■■