GREYMOUTH HARBOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7957, 7 February 1906, Page 5

GREYMOUTH HARBOUR.

AN APPEAL TO THE PREMIER. GREYMOUTH, February 6. A large meeting was held, last evening, to urge upon the Government the desirability of making a harbor at Point Elizabeth. After the matter had been thoroughly gone into the following resolution was passed:—."Seeing that the present shipping ports of the West Coast appear to have reached their maximum development and are quite inadequate to cope with ooean-going steamera to the great detriment of the Coast and the colony at large, and in order to fully develop the export trade of the State Coal Mine, at Runanga, the vast coal areas ou the Paparoa Ranges,timber and other produots, this publio meeting, representing the unanimous and hearty opinion of the people of Grevmouth, respectfully, urges on the Government the great desirability of having the necessary surveys made and expert opinion obtained (by the British Admiralty, it possible) as to the cost, efficiency and utility for naval and other purposes, on a barbopr at Point Elizabeth, as suggested by the Premier, on his recent visit to the] West Coast; also, that a copy of the foregoing resolution beforwarded to the Premier, as Minister of Marine.