WESTPORT HARBOUR.
(Peb United Press Association.) Weletngton, May 13. A deputation waited on the Minister for Mines to urge the importance of something being done to improve the facilities for shipping coal at Westport. They pointed out that the present mode of shipment from staiths was very destructive to coal; and if trade was to be developed lhe erection of a new wharf at Westport and hydraulic cranes were an absolute necessity. The Hon. Mr Cadman replied that a new wharf was too big an order altogether, but he would go into the question of cranes for lifting household coal and see if anything could be done. With regard to tho proposed differential rate for the carriage of coal, if it meant reducing the revenue he feared it would not be entertained. Since ho became Minister for Railways he supposed he had bad requests for reductions in railway charges that in the aggregate would lower the railway revenue onehalf if given effect to.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10359, 14 May 1895, Page 5
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