LOCAL BODIES MEET; SUPPORT TAURANGA SCHEME

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 92, 6 September 1950, Page 3

LOCAL BODIES MEET; SUPPORT TAURANGA SCHEME

“This meeting of representatives of local bodies in and adjacent to the Bay of Plenty is strongly of the opinion that as Tauranga is a good natural harbour already meeting the needs of the district as an overseas and coastal port, there is no need to consider the expenditure of a problematical but necesarily very large sum of public money in the construction of an artificial harbour only some 60 miles away, particularly as in the "light of experience the effiectiveness of such an artificial harbo.ur is also very problematical, and that this meeting is strongly in favour of the retention of Tauranga as the port of the Bay of Plenty.”

This was the text of a resolution carried unanimously at a meeting held in Tauranga, of representatives of thb Tauranga Harbour Board, Tauranga Borough Council, Tauranga County Council, Mount Maunganui Borough Council, Te Puke Borough Council, Opotiki Borough and County Councils, Rotorua Borough and County Councils, Te Aroha Borough! Council, Waihi Borough Council, Piako County Council, Matamata County Council, Putaruru Borough Council, and the Ohinemuri County Council. The meeting which was called by the chairman of the Tauranga Harbour Board, Mr J. D. Alach, to consider the question of the location of a deep sea port for the Bay of Plenty, also unanimously pledged its full co-operation with the Tauranga Harbour Board in the preparation and presentation of evidence to the Committee of Inquiry recently appointed by the Government to investigate the site of a port for the Bay of Plenty.

A third resolution carried unanimously by the meeting, called on the Government to hold the inquiry as an open inquiry both as regards the investigation carried out i;n connection with the Tauranga harbour development proposal and the proposal put forward regarding harbour development at Whakatane,