MATAMATA RECORD. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1923. THAMES HARBOUR LOAN.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 432, 30 April 1923, Page 2

MATAMATA RECORD. MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1923.

THAMES HARBOUR LOAN.

1 The Only Paper Published • in the Matamata County. Office: Tui Street, P.O. Box 38. ’Phone 82.

THE Thames Star, commenting on th« result of the Harbour Board Loan, says: " However, it now devolves upon the Harbour Board to study the question from a different angle and, if fedssibto, bring forward fresh proposals to shorten the district and take another poll in six months. With the election of new members to the Board who arc opposed to the Board's policy the ta.sk is doubly difficult. The new members will, no doubt, if they arc thinking men, study the question of the best policy for the Board to adopt. They will bo able to look at matters at-first hand, and there is no doubt that their conclusions will be in a different calibre to what they are at present Agodd suggestion lias been made that the area of the Board should" be _cut down to the Thames Borough 1 and the immediate comities. If the borough can shoulder the street improvement loan and other progressive works, it surely can shoulder a smaller sum where there is little chance of any rate being levied. We shall find that, given a harbour at Thames, the up-country states will i soon be clamouring to join in and benefit, by the advantages to be obtained.*' .' The position, summed up, is exactly what the opposition contended. If a local harbour was the objective the Thames Borough'and the country area immediate to it should shoulder the liability; or the Board could proceed to expend £40,000 on which it was claimed it could pay interest.