FERRY WHARFAGE FEES.
PROTEST AT INCREASE.
REQUEST FOR COMMISSION.
The appointment of a Boyal Commission to adjudicate on the question of the increased ferry charges proposed by the Auckland Harbour Board was advocated at a meeting of the Marine Boroughs' Asgbiation last evening. The Mayor of Devonport, Mr. T. Lamont, presided. Mr. A. M. Gould, Mayor of Takapuna, moved that the four North Shore boroughs be recommended to make joint petition to the Governor-General and the Minister for Marine praying that an inquiry be held into the reasonableness or otherwise of the proposed increased ferry and vehicular wharfage charges, and that the Governor exercise his statutory power to disallow the Harbour Board's by-law. Mr. Gould said only an inquiry bv competent adjudicators would satisfy the North Shore people. The motion was carried unanimously, and it was further recommended that an accountant bo engaged to prepare tho necessary data for the purposes of the petition. it was resolved to seek the co-operation in the matter of the Devonport Steam Ferry Company and '' the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 12
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