DUNEDIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7342, 5 December 1884, Page 5

DUNEDIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Dunedin, November 20. At tba Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day, a quantity of business of interest was transacted, and the committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Customs’ tariff presented a report, pointing out where alterations were required, and anomalies existed. It was agreed to forward a copy of the report to the Minister of Trade and Customs, and to ask him to afford an opportunity for a deputation from the chamber to wait upon him on the subject. Another committee presented a report on the Bankruptcy Act, and it was explained that the recommendationsmade had been embodied iu the amending Act of last session. A memo, was laid on the table showing the coat of the working of the telephone system in the colony. It showed that the total number of subscribers on April 30th last was 790, being an increase of 494 on the previous year. Of the total, 306 were iu Dundin, and more were waiting, and the receipts were equal to 59 per cent, on the capital expended. It was agreed to ask the Government for a reduction in the price to each subscriber by 50s. : The question of the Harbor Board’s operations on the bar then came np in connection with a letter written to the Daily Times by Mr Eitchie, a member of the Harbor Board, pointing out that the Enapehu had been unable to discharge all her cargo at this port, as, if she had, it would have disturbed her trim, so that she would have drawn more than 21ft 6in, and could not have got out. After a long discussion the following motion was carried “ That this chamber strongly urges tie Harbor Board to push ou the permanent works at the heads with all expedition, and in the meantime to make every use of the large dredge for keeping the passage over the bar y, open for the admission of thd largest steamers.