HARBOUR DUES SAFE
EXPORT DAIRY PRODUCE COLLECTION Ob' REVENUE An assurance Hint, harbour hoards would not. lie adversely affected financially by the Priiunrv Products Marketing Act was given hv the Minister of Finance and Marketing, the W. Nash, in a letter to the Harbours* Association of New Zealand read at a meeting! of the Auckland Harbour Board. The Minister said if was definitely the intention of the Government that, harbour boards should not. suffer ns a result, of the passing of the hill, arid that so long as the Government, continued to acquire a. title to dairy produce tor export, at the f.n.b. point, wharfage and other harbour dues would he payable by factories as fit. present.. Dues were to be payable by the State in the event of the title to the goods being taken at an earlier point. “It, is now clearly defined that the Act will riot, prevent harbour boards from collecting their revenue.'’ said tho chairman, Air. 0. G. Macindoe. “The position is now secure and safe.’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19027, 29 May 1936, Page 7
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171HARBOUR DUES SAFE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19027, 29 May 1936, Page 7
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