LACK OF SUPPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 16

LACK OF SUPPORT

SHIPMENT OF WOOL COASTAL CHARGES ISSUE Lack of support from the Gisborne district in the. effort to secure reduced charges of shipping wool to Napier was spoken of by Cr. J. E. Benson at to-day’s meeting of the Cook County Council. A letter was read from the Napier Harbor Board intimating k\at it had removed wharfage on inward wool. Cr. Benson said that he and the chairman, Cr. Charles Matthews, were deputed to meet the Napier Harbor Board on the matter, but they had never gone “because of the lack of support from our own district.’' He said that he was very disappointed at, the poor support received from this district. The shipping companies and Woolbrokor.s’ Association had. done nothing, and the chief offender, the Gisborne Harbor Board, also had done nothing. Cr. E. H. Baker: Is it worth while approaching our Harbor Board again. If it does not reduce its charges it will lose a lot.

Cr. M. T. B. Hall said that the Gisborne Harbor Board should not be blamed so much as the shipping companies. Lorry competition had done a lot of good, he considered, in bringing the shipping companies into line. It was decided to send a letter of thanks to the Napier Harbor Board for its action.