DUNEDIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10526, 6 August 1910, Page 3

DUNEDIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

(Pep. Press Association.) Dunedin, August 5. A: til--- annual meeting of t-he Cham--1.-: ('mniiierce. the retiring Chairi: iMr i). M'Pherson) said the quanalue of our products had > most sanguine expectations, increase all round, with the of timber. He reviewed I :!ie trade movement of the ior the year. Concerning ' >i>r. he said the depth at- the i the loner harbor had been iiincd. During the year the vessels was G49, with a tonus 1.111)2.050. The position with district- railways was un-■iinc-e last year some progress n 'ii- n wade with the Catlins-Taha-but it was disappointingly •->. i :!(■ Lawrence-Roxburgh line standstill, but it was hoped confidence that- it- would be ' iar as Beaumont as a result ikeoming visit of the Prime There was no agitation for Central at present. No doubt was waiting a favorable i i prosecute their claims. < 'icludod by referring to • :he city, i- ■ . i . Fergus referred to the - - '!:i'l'M' legislation and to the " : -i ;- -i by the unsettled land ■ 1). aling with the railways, ■ ; -ii a contractor for the con- . i ;n<- first part of the line C:;!.!:, ;! i is?", which meant that -- > ?n dragging its weary all these years. He had :-'V vvtieii the line was started, i would be a mighty old u \ is finished. The chairi. ied to the Lawrencei i comparatively modern _ i.i ihe people of Otago !- . i I--.-1 m no uncertain way to diis line would be carried Ulterior at no distant date, r.--.:now was being done. The >•! t>:a L -i, had been absolutely de.it r.-gard to carrying on the I line, whose legitimate .—•» •• «:•> on the shores of Lake, —. ! hi-v had been told the rea- -. ,r . >tuppage of work was that •••• -..-i i-.i-I'll paying one-lialf per ■ 1 i::-' I list of construction. It- ■ i-i! to him a very strange -it . line even paid that- wlien ■ ■ >vstein under which the - - • •a-micted. The amount of -v >u hi carrying the line from Clyde would have been - .!• carry the line, properly r r ' - i. nuht to Wanaka and bnild i i m the way. The way iat whole work liad been eara downright disgrace, and ■ ' railway, under the circumnut paying one-half per 1..' would like to know if "• :t» other railways earning _ ■ ''"i. or less at the present .. i . Ti- .. ,re a good many railways /.i aland that would pay what the Otago .. i• --mi ay would pay. Otago . f ." •• ■ ■ <! ilist ire at the liands of " "i-i.a-in. and if Otago's repre- , - .ii Parliament were worth a -jr. Outgo would get justice. ( . r '' " r: was adopted. Hitchie was elected prosi-i-t t ;l.- < nailing year.