HARBOUR BOARD ELECTION

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1950, Page 4

HARBOUR BOARD ELECTION

Address By Independent Candidates The progressive independent candidate for the Harbour Board, Messrs. S. A. Healey, T. G. Mullins, and A. C. Nixon, 0.8. E., addressed a meeting in the Methodist Hall, Dublin Street, last night. Mr. Mullins gave an outline of his scheme, which, he stated, could be financed out of normal maintenance funds. He said that the policy of the present Harbour Board was to dredge, to close the town wharf and to sell the tug. He asserted that the new channel to the Town Wharf would be a great asset, that the Town Wharf should be kept open and that the tug should be retained for the ships which wouln come into Castlecliff when his scheme for using the currents was applied. Mr. Healey recalled the time when large numbers of ships came up to the Town Wharf; he was confident that with a sound engineering scheme, based on the proper use of the currents, Wanganui could get these ships back again. Mr. Nixon pointed out that in other parts of the world people made every effort to bring ships up river to their towns. ‘We could and should maintain our shipping to the Town Wharf, ho said. The Mullins’ Scheme should be thoroughly investigated and put into practice if it could rot be fault eel. Mr. W. R. Wotton was in the chair.