NAPIER BREAKWATER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 7

NAPIER BREAKWATER.

,- 7 . >;i THE :HlOf OSED;; LOAN. L'-\-' "'' ■:■ coßßEsrofipaNi,). v''■:■/■,;;■ ■':':■:: .-': ■:'. Napier,"January 21 ; ,-.' '~- The proposed: Napier. .'Harbour. Board - loan, of'-'£2oo,ooo.,:has. awakened considerable controversy throughout the Hawjte's Bay -.province;and there, is, a marked, division 'of opjnion , in regard" to the projocl,' ■ Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., has opened a campaign in.fayour of; the proposal* holding that the early completion of the breakwater'depends upon..the. loam;. The .chief, objection;.of -the country-partyJβ , against an increase in rates, but .thjs, Jar. Brown has endeavoured ,to show, [ owing _. to . the■/ iriqrea sed trade ■of the portj is.not.likely,to occur. In fact, ho.holds' that in 'two .years: all utos will be abolished. of-thjs lie has given notice to move at- tho next meeting of "the board as follows: "That no harbour rate bo struck for 1009 until after the taking of the«poll of tho ratepayers on the proposal to borrow £200,000 : fbr.;,thcV,completion of' the breakwater harbour." ;If such loan proposal is carried; ho will ( move'that the harbour rate for 1909 bo reduced by one-half of that which was struck in 1908; • ■■■■■• : •-. ■ •■■■'■; ■■-■ ■'•-.-■ ... ■