Enterprise.

Manawatu Standard, 29 July 1904, Page 7

Enterprise.

(Per Press Association).-

WELLINGTON, July 28. At a mooting. of the Harbour Board to-day Mr D. J. . N„tk„_ laoved,. " That owing to tbo expansion, of tlie dairy produce industry, and the steady increase in exports oi dairy • produce; the time, has arrived for -tlie Board to take into consideration the -question of acquiring or erecting cold storage works, and that- the secretary make preliminary enquiries as to the. price and ■terms, at t which. ...the .. Meat Export Company's Waterloo Quay works could probiabJy be purchased, qud the capacity oi the same; !ho cost of working, and the probable revenue to be b_sed on a scale of charges at the Moturoa works."

Only two members opposed the motion, which was carried after a short discussion;

Letters were read from shaping companies, objecting to the reoan. increase in port charges,, and a committee was set up to consider-the advisableness of rescinding the .resolution increasing ihe harbour rate to 4d per ton on all goods, exceptingcoal, and that the wharfage on ballast and coal be reduced to. a smilar amount..