KAIPARA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 3

KAIPARA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Thk monthly meeting of the Kaipaia OiiuflUsr of Commerce wag held hero on Wednesday fitter- - noon (write* our Dargavilfe correspondent). The president (Mr. F. F. Day) occupied the chair, , r and Hume, A. K. Harding, P. J. I).Wsra.ville, Elliott, h. B. Marruier, Thomas Basseti, and K. T. Fi*ld (secretary) were al«o present. The secretary reported that 5500 booklets con* taining a. description, of the district had beenprinted, and it was decided to circulate them, throughout the colony. >A communication wad received from the Wtlros Steamship Company wque-sUng ; the Chamber r . 'J J; to move in the matter of having Mount Hex made a receiving station to enable vtttaspeti "ttr',.. - ;: ..':': j load and discharge cargo' there. It was unanimously agreed to- accede to thfe requeafc, and th»secretary was instructed to write the Msnistcc , •;V';l'< for Railways.'. -'; . ' " It was decided to ask the Hobson County Couacil to send Mr. Hammond, engineer, to Inspect and report upon the cos* and practicability t»( making a dray road over: the Sl'aunganui Bluff. . ' > from iAranga..ott to the beads, on the- Hokiaoj*■> side of the bluff. •"■• At the request of the chsirmau of t the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company it watt decided to wrrt« to the Minister for Public Work* for a grant for the erection of a wharf at Little Shag Creek, * - "< below Raupo. . . ■ . It was resolved that th« Minister for Railway* be written to, pointing out the great loss of. re» - venue at present resulting to the : Railway, Depart*. meat through vessels running good* from Auck- '.■■:■ land and Southern .ports to the Kaipara, »Ed . ; urging that this loss is largely caused by the heavy freight rates ruling on the Kainara railway, and thai thev should be materially reduced. It «-m decided 'to write' to the Telegraph Department asking that a telephone' bureau be **- taljlwhed in the. district, having . its central at Dnrgaville. ■ ■ * •' *•' In reply to a letter from the Chamber, » com* • municatlon was received from the Postmaster-' "A General statins that tenders would tw eslted for a weekly overland mail service between Tanglteroria »ud Wlmnßarel and Kaihu and Tahekj 1 . >>< Hokianra. The Department »a* Mot favourawn -~ to the request to■■ establish » service betweenTokatofca and MataUhe.