PORT CHARGES
WELLINGTON TO SEEK INCREASE HEAVY LOSS EXPECTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 23. A proposal that an approach be made to the Price Tribunal for agreement to increased charges for wharfage and port facilities at Wellington was approved at a meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board to-night.
Moving the adoption of this course, the chairman. Mr W. H. Price, said that a loss of approximately £127,000 for the full 12 months must be expected on the basis of the trading in the past six months. A suggestion was made by some members that it might be necessary to abandon the present system by which the board acted as wharfinger and adopt a system such as that used in Auckland, where the ships delivered their cargo into the sheds. Some criticism of the Auckland system and the facilities provided on the wharves and in the sheds there was voiced by other members.
* One member, representing a primary industry electorate, dissented from the decision.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 4
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