WESTPORT HARBOUR BOARD COMMISSION.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13825, 23 September 1913, Page 6

WESTPORT HARBOUR BOARD COMMISSION.

.»«> £DmTKl> I'BBBS ABSOCIATItfN.J Westport, Sept. 22. Til© Harbour Board Commission.con ■ftiuuod its inquiry -to-day. . .. Jffirjd-ence v.'as giveoi f>y>W. ;S; *.Mc Donald, .who advocated minimising "tin -fKut .charges -nud improving tho sys torn of representation -un tho board iind put in data he had prepared, show ■iiig comparisons ho had • prepared be >fcwe>on the harbour, charges iit West port, Newcastle, and Durban, showing (t]iat Westport wa.s more attract*v< Ifi'om tho point cf view oi: charges thai {Newcastle. The other witnesses iv&re: Mr. P Payne, district manager, giving eyi 'donoe re tho railway; Ca ptaina l)ol>sor injid Williams, who mainly gave oorrob oration of tho o; ril effects of tho east it'.ra. wall overlapping tho. western, anc tha difficulty anticipated in working ii and out of tho noatin^ basin; Johr O'Ga.liaghan and John Connell, quarrj fqromon, concerning tho working condition's; S. Falla, the sUitionmaster ol t'ho Capo line, in regard to the system adopted in the collection of fares anc •freights on general goods and timber, it was ascertained that no chock wa« anadeon sawn timber, the tallies being fiuppliod by tho mill owners Witness •was Unable to check out log timber. In connection with the collection of pasReriffOTs' freight, the guards were handed so many tickets, and handed 'him back th« money. There \t:is no cheek imvde. The tickets were issued to ovoryone who .travelled. .In answer •bo Mr. Munro, the witiiuas stated, the ■Jtnrnlj&r of trucks .was abo.ut ,thJrty , antl ho dcyondi'd on his memory ..as-to wlicro the trucks w-ere 3i>cated at any pctrticular time. Evkk'iice was also Kivrrn by Mr. Dudloy, the Government auditor.