Harbour Boards Lose On Government Goods
— ■«> NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 12. The storage of Government goods in harbour board sheds and upon wrharves without charge, cost the Wellington Harbour Board in the last two years £8280 calculated on the basis of storage charges for the commercial commumty, Sir Charles Norwood, Wellington, toia tlie annual conferenee of the Harbours Assoeiation of New Zealand, at New Plyniouth today. Heavy maehlnery was being imported for hydro-electric works. The loss to the Auckland board would be five or six times as great as at Wellington, claimed Mr. W. F. McCuilum (Auckland). The conferenee supported a remit from Wellington that the matter be again taken up with the Minister of Marine, Mr. Hackett, with a view to urging the Government to pay the board concerned the equivhlent of the amount of storage charges upon such goods as would be charged were the goods privately owned.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 October 1949, Page 8
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149Harbour Boards Lose On Government Goods Chronicle (Levin), 13 October 1949, Page 8
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